Cross-Cultural Communication
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| Level: |
Foundation
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Area: |
Professional Techniques
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| Code: |
PTF8
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Duration: |
03:30:00
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| Workshop profile: |
| Anyone who wishes to explore how to recognise a cultural issue or problem (particularly in a medical writing setting) and how to approach it wisely. Curiosity and willingness to share own experiences are the most important prerequisites. |
| Objective: |
| By raising awareness about cultural differences and key factors involved in intercultural communication, this workshop aims at giving participants an increased ability to recognise cultural issues in situations that medical writers frequently encounter, and the basic skills needed to avoid potential problems. |
| Content: |
| The ability to operate effectively in multicultural contexts has become a key business skill. Medical writers often work in international teams and many of us have experienced different working styles and ways of communicating that can create a host of problems. Knowledge about cultural characteristics and differences, and how they affect medical writing can diminish these problems. The workshop will be a mixture of lecturing, discussions and group work. The most common ways of distinguishing cultures from each other (national and organisational) will be covered and the pre-workshop assignment (the Enneagram’s nine personality types) will help to raise awareness about one’s own personal inclination to meet an unknown culture. Discussion groups will be put together from information given in the pre-workshop assignment. |
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