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Content marketing is a essential digital marketing strategy for companies looking to provide relevant and useful information to support your community and attract new customers.
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Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption: Choices for a Better Society
There are opportunities for progress all around us. The key is to innovate on these opportunities sustainably.
To help identify most effective path forward, you'll need to gain a global perspective to these challenges in an open discussion. How can Japan and the world take action to create a more sustainable, innovative world? Where do you fit in?
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Social Media & Digital Communications: Impact on Global Public Opinion
Social and digital media have dominated the communications industry for decades. But it's no secret that social media has the power to sway public opinion, and the way in which many companies use these platforms could be seen as manipulative.
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Discover what top media and communications experts have to say.
CAGE Distance Framework
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These days, cultural sensitivity is something we’re all expected to have, in business and in life. But there seem to be as many don’ts as there are dos to interacting cross-culturally. We should learn about other people’s lived experiences, but not put them on the spot. We need cultural awareness to achieve diversity, but not tokenism or stereotypes. It can be a real challenge to know what’s OK to say. After putting your foot in your mouth once or twice, it’s easy to throw up your hands and decide that it’s not worth it, that you’ll just live in a culture silo of people similar to you.
But do that, and no one wins.
Diversity in all its forms brings benefits to business, and culture is a nest of diverse opportunity. From obvious language and racial differences to neurodiversity, peoples across the world have much to teach each other. We can help build more sustainable products and services, reach untapped markets through inclusivity, and even work toward peacebuilding.
But we can only do that if we interact. And we can only interact if we’re aware of each other.
Cultural awareness starts with the simple act of looking around you. Make no mistake, that can be tougher than it sounds. You might need to retrain your eyes and outlook, think differently about places and people you walk by every day. Who do you actually see on your way to work, and who do you not see? Who do you interact with at the supermarket, and who might you unconsciously avoid? If (or when) you say something inappropriate, how do you bounce back from a faux pas with lessons learned?
We spoke to three women with experience in cross-cultural business situations. Here are their expert tips to raise your cross-cultural awareness.
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The Cross-Culture Competency Quiz: Are You Ready to Join the Global Community?
3 Steps to Better Cross-Cultural Communication
Observe everyone around you.
Step one: Open your eyes and look around. Even if you’re eager to widen your cultural horizons, you might be missing opportunities right in front of you!
Misato Nagakawa:
You can start with observing the people around you. Many people want to go to different countries to have international experiences. But if you look at Japanese society, there are many people who come from different backgrounds and different nationalities, even though they’ve lived in Japan for [many] years.
Look at the convenience store. Many international people are working, right? But these people are sometimes invisible because you don’t realize that [they are there]. But if you observe carefully, these kinds of people are around you, for sure. You can start having communication in your daily life so that you can have an opportunity to interact with people from different backgrounds. And if you are more interested in their own countries or backgrounds, you can save your money and go to different countries that expand your world.
Don’t get stuck in a “culture silo.”
Step two: Resolve yourself to get out of your comfort zone. It’s human to feel most comfortable when you’re surrounded by people who look, think, and act like you. It’s also natural to fear rocking the boat, embarrassing others or yourself with an innocent mistake. But holding back could do more harm than good.
Megumi Taoka:
[A common misconception about cultural awareness] is mistaking distancing for respecting. Some of us are afraid of offending other cultures and tend to stay away from interacting with people from different cultures. But that way, you will remain in your culture silo, and you never interact across cultures.
3. Support cultural strengths.
Step three: Never stop learning. Every culture comes with something to offer. In business, piecing together those strengths can lead to incredible returns.
Kyoko Nagano:
Of course, everybody needs to understand each other’s differences, but at the same time, there are some good elements from the each different culture. For instance, German or Dutch people are really want a quick decision. Japanese nationals are quite vague sometimes. But it’s really efficient, in a way, if we can incorporate these differences into making decisions. And then that can be a better way to bring about more of a better solution.