Cross Cultural Communications

Audience: International business people who work for American Corporations.

Overview: This program presents international business people with the insights and tools they need to understand and adapt to American business people and the American culture.

Program Content:

Understanding American styles of communication
Planning your messages for global audiences
Five critical principles of communicating with Americans
How to deliver Tough Messages--American style
Honoring cross-cultural differences

Materials: Workshop workbook, “Sweetnam’s Cross Cultural Communications”

Sherry’s Cross Cultural Background

Sherry has lived in Spanish and Asian cultures and worked intensively with Arab students. She lived, worked and studied abroad for over two years. Through a government grant, she instructed professors in ESL at the University of Indonesia. Later she taught business people and students from all over the world at the University of Colorado and Queen’s College in
New York.