Communicating Through a Global Lens: How to Broaden Your Perspective in a Cross-Cultural World

Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Time: 5:30  pm - 7:00  pm

Event Address: 188 Madison Avenue (@34th Street), New York, NY 10016

Event Venue: The New York Public Library/Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL), Room 018

Contact Name: Jackie Gold

Contact Phone: 212-592-7000

Contact Email: jgold@nypl.org

Event URL: http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/prog/sibl/progsched.cfm

Fee: Free but seating is limited

With globalization and technology transforming our work life, it?s imperative to build good working relationships with colleagues who sit across an aisle or across a continent. Expanding your skill at communicating across cultures will help you to achieve these successful business relationships. With this in mind, we are offering a short session on bringing your cross cultural communication skills to a new level. This session consists of practical, easy to learn lessons and activities for you to master the challenges of working in global organizations. The author Yael Zofi, Founder and CEO of AIM Strategies? ? Applied Innovative Management?, will discuss her new book ?Communicating Through a Global Lens? which offers the inside scoop on communicating effectively across cultures. This informative, enjoyable, ?how-to? session will help you to: Test your own knowledge of cultural practices around the world; Learn 5 strategies for engaging in effective global interactions; Improve your ability to speak and work with - or manage - people throughout the world.

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