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Author Archives: Markus Eidam
Proper [in]direct communication
Learn practical tips and strategies on how to best deal with direct and indirect people! With the help of our background knowledge, you can achieve your professional goals faster and with a lot less worries. As you surely know from … Continue reading
The best tips and strategies from 20 years of Eidam & Partner trainings
I myself have conducted more than 100 cross-cultural trainings for our company. An important module in these is the exchange of experiences between participants. Over the last 20 years, this has allowed me to learn a multitude of unbelievably good … Continue reading
Conflict management / giving feedback in a cross-culturally adept way
Feedback isn’t easy. Even when I want to give feedback to someone from my own culture about a specific behavior, it can easily lead to conflict, especially when it comes to negative aspects and wishes for improvement. For instance, the … Continue reading
Time management in international business
There are many cultural challenges in the international business world. An important point, which many employees and managers often ignore, is the different understanding of time. Read what you should pay attention to in todays blog post!
Direct and indirect communication in business
Today we’d like to introduce you to a cultural difference that causes misunderstandings in global collaborations extremely often. You’ll encounter the issue of direct and indirect communication when collaborating with people all over the world, wherever they come from. Because … Continue reading
Do your foreign contacts often say “yes” and then do nothing? You rarely receive negative information?
Especially in very indirect cultures there is a tendency not to speak out negative things openly. Instead, you usually say “yes”, even though you cannot complete a task at all, for example. Or you only get to hear praise, although … Continue reading
Overcoming hierarchical differences
There are certain cultures in which a lot of value is placed on hierarchies – for example, in Japan, South Korea and Brazil. In contrast, there are also countries and regions where almost all people tend to be treated equally, … Continue reading
Tips, tricks and strategies for dealing with individualists and collectivists
This article will give you specific tips and strategies on how to best deal with individualists and collectivists. This way you can achieve your personal goals more easily. You can learn more about the background to both cultural styles in … Continue reading