In this episode, I chat with my good friend Gustavo Guillemin about Communicating Across Cultures. Gustavo is a published author, a Professor, and had delivered TEDTalks.
The world today is Globalized. We can often find ourselves in situations where we need to communicate effectively with people from different cultures. This is not just a necessity at work. It is highly likely that your neighbors or the people you socialize with come from different cultures.
Gustavo and I share stories about times when we both made notable mistakes while communicating with people of different cultures.
Gustavo also shares the Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory. This is a framework for cross-cultural communication, developed by Geert Hofstede. It shows the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behaviors, using a structure derived from factor analysis.
If you work or communicate with people from different cultures, you'll find this chat very informative.
