About: Learn how to improve cross-cultural communication skills for your small business. Participants will identify and recognize each other’s communication styles and determine how they can improve their cross-cultural skills to succeed in their businesses or outreach from their organizations.
They’ll also:
- Learn the different models of communication and understand what affects the ease/difficulty of communicating with other people.
- Identify low-context and high-context cultures.
- Identify five things that could be done to improve relationships with target cultures.
One-on-one, 30-minute sessions will be offered to interested businesses after the workshop.
Cost: Free
When: Wednesday, April 5, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce, 753 33rd Ave., Columbus, Neb.
Registration is required (by Tuesday, April 4): Click here to register.
Questions/assistance contact: Jess Cabán at jessc@cfra.org or 402.380.0973
Hosted by: The Center for Rural Affairs and Columbus Area Chambers of Commerce
This workshop is supported by a grant from the Marion Ewing Kauffman Foundation’s Heartland Challenge.
All Center for Rural Affairs events and activities are open to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable arrangements for persons with disabilities and/or persons with limited English proficiency (LEP) will be made if requested in advance.
Fully vaccinated people are not required to wear a mask or maintain social distance. Those who are not yet fully vaccinated are asked to either take a self-administered COVID-19 test (with a negative result) prior to leaving for the event or mask and maintain distance while at the event. If you are feeling ill in any way, please refrain from attending.
