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Seven views on cross-cultural communication and the COI
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Thunderbird professors Denis Leclerc, Ph.D., and Karen Walch, Ph.D., enjoy watching students in their cross-cultural communication classes learn to thrive in diverse work environments. “The students realize that sometimes the issues they have in teams are not due to personalities but actually due to cultural misunderstandings and miscommunication,” Leclerc says. In this podcast, recorded July 16, 2009, Leclerc and Walch talk about the Cultural Orientation Indicator (COI), a self-assessment tool Thunderbird uses to help its students and corporate clients understand their own cultural preferences and the preferences of others. The professors are joined by five Thunderbird students from Italy and India, who talk about their own adventures in cross-cultural communication. Audio: Seven views on cross-cultural communication and the COI (15:25)
Thunderbird Professor Karen Walch, Ph.D., remains optimistic about the future despite a global recession that has turned the world upside down. The cross-cultural negotiation and brain science expert says the world is on the edge of a new frontier. “The new frontier is exploring what we can do with our minds,” she says Feb. 5 during a faculty roundtable discussion.