For teams / Cross-cultural communication
Understand more.
Assume less.
For teams working across cultures and locations: examine assumptions, check understanding and discuss shared expectations.
Discuss this programDifference is more than a nationality.
Teams carry different ideas about authority, trust, time, disagreement and what good communication looks like. When those ideas remain unspoken, misunderstandings can feel personal.
Drawing on experience across Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and APAC teams, Joe helps participants examine assumptions without reducing people to cultural stereotypes.
Possible areas of focus
Making assumptions visible
Explore how your own experience shapes what you expect from other people.
Listening across difference
Practise checking understanding and asking questions that open a conversation.
Building shared ways of working
Discuss expectations openly and agree practical ways to communicate and collaborate.
A program that fits
Your context
comes first.
Bring one recent situation: a meeting, a decision or an interaction that has been difficult. We discuss who is involved, what is getting in the way and what you would like the team to practise. Content and format are shaped around those needs.
Workshops and facilitated sessions may be offered online or in person, depending on location and availability. Practical arrangements are agreed before a program begins.
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Let’s talk about your team.
Share the context and we can explore what would be useful.
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