Cultural Intelligence in Global Business
Aims
Goal: walk into your first meeting in a business culture you don't know — and surface the local rules before you break them, with one researched detail, mirrored behaviour, norm-surfacing questions and a flagged assumption.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: The rules nobody will tell you
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: What the room is judging
Read a 222-word text about What the room is judging
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: First-Meeting Language
6 items
- Framework6 min
Framework: The First-Meeting Compass
The First-Meeting Compass, 4 steps
- Reading10 min
Reading: Three model first meetings
Read a 321-word text about Three model first meetings
- Practice7 min
Practice: Expressing Cultural Intelligence
Word-ordering exercise, 4 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Your first meeting in an unfamiliar market
Role-play: Your company is exploring a partnership in a market none of you know. You've flown in for the first meeting with the prospective partner's leadership. (3 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: five minutes, new world
3 discussion questions
Open the full lesson
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Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
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