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Working on Multicultural Teams

By Kit Brown

The world today is rife with examples of the consequences of miscommunication, lack of inter-cultural understanding, and misinterpreting behavior based on one's own worldview. In business, too, examples abound of failed deals and projects, angry customers, or lawsuits that resulted from misunderstanding. Walmart posted significant losses last year in Germany because it failed to understand what its German customers wanted. The US automobile industry is rapidly facing a crisis because it has failed to build cars that adequately meet upcoming international emissions and gas mileage standards. A medical device company in the UK might be sued because patients died when the doctor pushed the wrong button during a cardiac bypass operation. The list goes on...Read more.

• Presentations: Part 1 of 3

  Preparing Presentations

  Making professional presentations, whether for a client or your boss and colleagues, can be a nerve-wracking experience. I've provided a few tips, by no means exhaustive, to give you a hand in focusing that nervous energy into something positive!...Read more

• Awards

  IPCC 2007 Awards

  The awards event is a highlight of each International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC). The awards are the Alfred N. Goldsmith Award, the Emily K. Schlesinger Award, the Ronald S. Blicq Award, the Rudolph J. Joenk, Jr. Award, and the IPCC Best Paper Award...Read more.

• Write Right

  Relevant Forms of Technical Writing

  In this column, we will discuss the different forms of technical writing mentioned in September. You can use this information as a guide not only to the venues available for your work, but also to gain a sense of the reliability of different sources. Each subsection is organized into "Intended audience, " "Content, " and "Review process." ...Read more.

• Scholarship

  $10,000USD Scholarship

  IEEE-USA is launching an online engineering video competition for undergraduate engineering students on "How Engineers Make a World of Difference," and will award seven scholarship prizes totaling $10,000 to the undergraduate students who create the most effective 90-second video clips aimed at an 11-to-13-year-old student audience.... Read More.

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