USE YOUR DIFFERENCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE HOW TO CONNECT AND COMMUNICATE IN A CROSS-CULTURAL WORLD

• Main Author: Rockson, Tayo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, United States John Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Intercultural communication; Interpersonal relations; Toleration
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Become more culturally competent in an increasingly diverse world Recent years have seen dramatic changes to several institutions worldwide. Our increasingly interconnected, digitized, and globalized world presents immense opportunities and unique challenges. Modern businesses and schools interact...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Educate. Education
• Education of self (internal culture)
• What are your core values?
• Education of environment
• Thinking like a sociologist
• Applying LORA to Educate
• Part II. Don't perpetuate. Don't perpetuate systems
• Identity
• Privilege
• The media
• Workplaces
• What about recruiting and talent acquisition?
• Education
• How allies can use their privileges and limit othering
• Applying LORA to Don't perpetuate
• Part III. Instead, communicate. Actually, communicate
• No more binary thinking
• Finding mutual purpose and shared meaning
• Receiving feedback
• Practice the "Yes, and"
• Communicating like an architect
• What Nelson Mandela taught us about seeing the bigger picture
• The path to reconciliation in Rwanda after genocide
• Healing our world today
• The importance of cultural awareness
• How parents can help their children be culturally aware
• How schools and teachers can help children be culturally aware
• Applying LORA to Instead, communicate
• Use your difference to make a difference.