When you’re running a meeting with people from different cultures, you need to consider your colleagues’ different needs and approaches.
How do you brainstorm ideas, make decisions, and address conflict in a way that is comfortable for everyone? Which culture’s preferences should be the default? And how can you be sure that people who aren’t from the dominant culture participate and are heard?
Find the answers here with the help of Rebecca Knight, freelance journalist in Boston and lecturer at Wesleyan University.
Knight tells you how to:
- Set expectations
- Build relationship
- Be creative with conflict
- Be flexible
- Consider rewards
Knight also includes a list of dos and don’ts, such as DO create protocols and norms so colleagues understand how meetings will run & DON’T force a perfect dynamic in meeting.
Learn more about organizing meetings of people from different cultures.
