Inspiration for: cross-culture management, team-building
Cross-culture cooperation - overview
Cross-culture cooperation - overview
The key to success is understanding and accepting the differences on a multicultural team, and then using them to enhance the way the team analyzes situations and makes decisions.
To prepare a team for such openess there are several actions you or your employees can take.
- Before the project
- get to know basic differences between your country and the other one. You can do it on-line here: https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/poland/
- get to know how is it to live/work in particular city at the moment
- attend cross-cultural sensitivity training
- prepare yourself for everything
- During the project
- allocate enough time for getting to know each other and team-building activities
- make common agreements on how will:
- communication flow
- you solve meritorical dispute
- making decission process look like
- you recognize that something is wrong
- conflict situation be resolved
- stakeholders be managed
- assessment process look like and feedback is given
- etc.
- agree how often you will revise the process
- After the project
- collect best practices and share with other teams in organization