Bridging Cultural Differences in Communication

In an increasingly interconnected world, understanding and adapting to cultural differences is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Whether working in multinational teams, engaging with international clients, or simply traveling abroad, effective communication hinges on an awareness of cultural nuances. Let’s dive into how cultural differences shape communication and learn strategies to bridge these gaps.

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How to manage change in times of digitalisation

Digitalisation influences the working world today more than ever before. New company structures and services emerge, processes need to be re-thought. Change management plays a decisive role in shaping processes of change.

Implementing change processes in this digital age is especially dependant on the following two factors:

  • A functioning company culture that enables an agile approach on constantly variable change.
  • A strong management level, that lives and drives the concepts of transformation as an example.

Especially management needs to recognise, communicate and set tangible focus on the challenges that occur due to digitalisation. Companies need to become aware that digitalisation is now a normality in company strategy, organisation and culture. Without cultural change there is no digital transformation. And only people, who are concerned with their own thinking patterns and culture, can facilitate others in their behavioural- and thinking patterns, in order to promote successful transformation.

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How can Sino-German cooperation be successful?

Find out about different ways of communication in order to avoid misunderstandings/conflicts

Your are responsible as manager, project manager or team manager? Part of your professional leadership competence is interfering in conflicts and handling them? You are annoyed by deficiencies of projects, lost orders or wasted production times due to internal conflicts? You would like to change all of that?

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MTI Webinar: A comparison between European and Chinese conflict culture

Date: November 2nd, 2017 | 4:00 p.m. CST (9:00 a.m. CET)

Find out about different ways of communication in order to avoid misunderstandings/conflicts

Your are responsible as manager, project manager or team manager? Part of your professional leadership competence is interfering in conflicts and handling them? You are annoyed by deficiencies of projects, lost orders or wasted production times due to internal conflicts? You would like to change all of that?

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Register today to boost your Strategic Communication Skills!

Dear Reader,
the German Centre Singapore and MTI – Machwuerth Team International invite you to make use of this unique opportunity:

The Strategic Communication Skills Workshop
This workshop will equip you with the mandatory tools to communicate effectively.
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Communication in Change Processes

„On the importance of communication in change processes“

How does change in an organisation actually start? And what role does communication play in this? Deficits in cooperation and management, challenging targets and performance pressure are just a few of many factors that make working life difficult.