Cross-Cultural Cooperation

Feedback Across Cultures

Unlock the skill of effective feedback in a global context. Explore nuanced communication styles, cultural sensitivities, and effective strategies for delivering feedback in diverse work environments.

Who is this training for?

For leaders, managers and employees of cross-cultural teams who want to improve their competencies in this area.

Consult this training

    What you will learn in the virtual workshop:
    • how to adapt communication to employees from different cultures
    • how to build a leader’s authority in an international team
    • whether and how to involve employees in the decision-making process
    • what is power distance, and how the role of a leader is perceived in different cultures
    Advantages of the virtual training
    • guarantee of interactive participation in training with the use of online engaging tools
    • half-day workshops allow flexible organization of the workday
    • relationships building with remote colleagues through joint participation in training
    • participation in the workshop from anywhere, all you need is access to a computer

    Virtual workshops program

    Module I

    Intercultural feedback fundamentals

    • Importance of feedback
    • Giving and receiving feedback
    • Facts vs opinions
    • Positive feedback – why it is worth to use it
    • “Me” statement and its importance while giving feedback
    • Feedback and feedforward – when to use which one
    • SPaNCA model – how to give fedback to others
    • Case studies and practice

    Module II

    Approach to feedback in different cultures

    • Cultural background – how does it impact cooperation?
    • Evaluating scale: direct negative feedback vs indirect negative feedback
    • Saving face: in which cultures is it important and how does it affect the way the feedback is provided
    • Practical tips: how to give feedback in multicultural and virtual environment (content, channel, form)
    • Giving feedback to supervisors
    • Trusting scale: relationship vs task-based
    • Case studies and practice
    • My own plan for giving feedback to other – what will be my first action after the training

    Project flow

    Diagnosis and prework
    • in-take interview with the project sponsor
    • diagnosis of participants’ needs (online questionnaire and calls)
    • prework for participants (material to watch, read or listen to)
    Virtual workshops
    • training divided into 2 workshops, 3,5 hours each
    • interactive working methods: discussions, chat, virtual board, questionnaires, videos, case studies, breakout rooms, external tools (Mentimeter, Miro, Funretro)
    • participants: up to 12 people
    Summary and follow up
    • training materials for participants
    • access to the ETTA knowledge base
    • follow up call with the project sponsor