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Work Culture At HR Tech Europe 2014

03 Monday Nov 2014

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adoption, conference, culture

I’m back from Amsterdam and Brussels, after an intense 9 days of speaking at HR Tech Europe 2014, and then meetings with great folks in the area.  I had some nice conversations with Frederic Williquet and Leon Benjamin (Sei Mani), Euan Semple, Dan Pontefract (TELUS), Ea Ryberg Due and Cerys Hearsey (Postshift), Aad Boot (LeadershipWatch), as well as with Ray Wang and Holger Muller (Constellation Research). I’ve met some interesting folks in the HR space as well: David Wilson (elearnity), Mervyn Dinnen, David D’Souza, and Kate Graham.

I also had an enlightening dinner discussion with Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations, and the evolution of organizational leadership. Look for a book review on Forbes coming soon.

My talk “Why can’t you understand me? Analyzing Collaboration Culture Clashes” focused on what we think of as work culture and the different influences that really make up our DNA. I then looked at how what we mean in our conversations is fractured or refracted through a prism effect of working digitally.

I’ve also blogged twice on LinkedIn and will post another on Forbes soon:

  • Is Collaboration Culture Different in Europe? (3 Nov)
  • Anticipating Work Cultures at HR Tech Europe (6 Oct)

I think this focus on the changes to how we work together because of digital collaboration will affect what it means to be an effective leader and how we develop talent in organizations, going forward.

-rawn

Communications patterns of different global cultures

08 Tuesday Jul 2014

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culture, leadership

Business Insider shared this image from Richard D. Lewis’ book, When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures (Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2006), which I found quite interesting. Richard D. Lewis is the founder of the Berlitz Schools of Languages, and creator of the Lewis Cross-Cultural Communication model that classifies cultural norms.

The author developed a visual metaphor to describe how people negotiate deals through conversations and interaction, shown here across American, Canadian, English, French, Italian, German, Chinese (mainland), Hong Kong, Israeli, Indian, Swiss, Singaporean, Australian, Korean, Indonesian, Hungarian, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Norwegian, and more.

These are of course stereotypes and not all are flattering. But that positive or negative view of the interaction pattern also depends on the culture you are from.  What you might consider inefficient in one view, others from that culture may consider yours too unfriendly. What I consider more significant is one’s ability to understand and work with other cultures regardless of the bias and conflict one might have.

Mr Lewis also has another book that bears investigation, When Teams Collide: Managing the International Team Successfully (2012) and is closer to work concerns in which I’m interested, particularly cultural views and being able to lead across cultures.

I think few people have the cultural and work experience to verify these patterns but perhaps we could do it through crowdsourcing. Anyone care to share their view of the pattern per their country’s culture?

 

Communications Patterns around the World.

 

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