Below you´ll find pics of our last Friday 12th March´s Get together in Café Lopez. As usual, we meet every week in Palermo to share our knowledge and experiences on a variety of intercultural related topics. This time we focused on a “clásico”: Working and Doing business with Argentines Part 1.
We started the session with a round of introductions to get to know each other: at least 7 different nationalities coming from Latin American, European and North American countries were represented in the group of 11 participants - making the encounter rich in diversity and multiple perspectives!In this pic, from left to right: Jed (US), Robert (Arg/UK), Kathy (Belgium), Flor (Honduras), Daniel (Arg), Kris (Arg), Menko (Paraguay/ Germany) and Madi (US).
After a bit of theory, the action started!
In small groups, we discussed and tried to clarify some typical cross-cultural misunderstandings taking place in different business settings between Argentines and employees/ managers from other cultures. Where is the misunderstanding? How does our cultural background lead us to misinterpret Argentines or to be misinterpreted by Argentines?
We had to fine tune our senses to figure out behaviors, actions, underlying values and beliefs of people coming from different cultures. Some of the questions we managed to answer were: How do Argentines deal with uncertainty at workplace? How do Argentines relate to their Managers? And how does this differ from relationships between Managers and subordinates in other cultures? To close the training session, each participant had the chance to fill up a personalized questionnaire to get to know their own cultural orientations better.
So whether you came to this meeting or not, everyone is invited to join next week´s session to keep the discussion ALIVE....
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Join US! Friday 19th March, 6.30pm - Café Lopez, Palermo.
TOPIC: "Working & Doing Business with Argentines"
- Relationships at workplace
- How do we deal with time and space across cultures?
- Why is harmony and saving face so important in Argentine business culture?
4 comentarios:
Natalia, it is absolutely encouraging to see that these coffee meetings are having such a terrific impact on the participants. Also, from the pictures taken, I guess everybody can see that all of you are enjoying the time together and having lots of fun, and at the same time learning more cross-cultural issues.
I sincerely hope that all the readers and followers of this blog will realize the wonderful cultural richness to be found in one of the most beautiful metropolis in the whole world, Buenos Aires. I do believe that Argentina as a country is a very tasty melting pot of cultural diversity; however, perhaps the highest concentration is located in the big city. The proof of this is the fact that out of eleven participants in the meeting, seven different nationalities were represented. What a great environment to socialize and learn!!!
It is quite evident to see the good spirit of camaraderie among the group, everyone giving their personal input, and learning from each other, as tasty coffee was flowing making this a true Argentinian get together.
Natalia, it is absolutely encouraging to see that these coffee meetings are having such a terrific impact on the participants. Also, from the pictures taken, I guess everybody can see that all of you are enjoying the time together and having lots of fun, and at the same time learning more cross-cultural issues.
I sincerely hope that all the readers and followers of this blog will realize the wonderful cultural richness to be found in one of the most beautiful metropolis in the whole world, Buenos Aires. I do believe that Argentina as a country is a very tasty melting pot of cultural diversity; however, perhaps the highest concentration is located in the big city. The proof of this is the fact that out of eleven participants in the meeting, seven different nationalities were represented. What a great environment to socialize and learn!!!
It is quite evident to see the good spirit of camaraderie among the group, everyone giving their personal input, and learning from each other, as tasty coffee was flowing making this a true Argentinian get together.
Thanks a lot for your support Ale!
It was a really interesting encounter. This week we´re going for more...
Take care
Natalia
Estimada Natalia,
Agradezco tus comentarios, pero tengo que decir que para mí es realmente un placer el poder contribuir de una manera u otra con este trabajo intercultural que primariamente tú estás realizando allá en Buenos Aires, una de las capitales culturales de importancia en el mundo.
Me alegra el ver como más gente se va involucrando en las reuniones de café que se realizan semanalmente. Sin embargo, al mismo tiempo lo que me sorprende bastante es el hecho que no veo un interés en la gente que sigue este blog en forma regular, en su participación y no sé cuál será el motivo de mantenerse más distante. Puede que sea una característica cultural también, uno nunca sabe.........quisiera tomar esta oportunidad aún desde los Estados Unidos, para animar y motivar a otros seguidores a que se junten al fogón y compartan con nosotros en esta fiesta cultural.
Chau y saludos a todos.
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