Comments on: How to Build Connections across Cultures https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/ How to improve organizational performance through personal growth Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:31:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Natella Isazada https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/#comment-803 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:46:00 +0000 http://www.natellaisazada.com/?p=1154#comment-803 In reply to Melissa.

Thank you for the comments Melissa and K! Learning about Feride’s tour makes me want to join a tour like that and get the full immersion experience into a culture that’s new to me!

]]> By: K.Asgari https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/#comment-802 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:45:19 +0000 http://www.natellaisazada.com/?p=1154#comment-802 In reply to Melissa.

Absolutely! Really a great way of building cultural connections. Well done, Feride Buyuran!

]]> By: Melissa https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/#comment-801 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:25:51 +0000 http://www.natellaisazada.com/?p=1154#comment-801 Your friend does a great job, Natella! Organizing such interesting tours to different places helps to build strong connection between people from different cultures. Also this integration of various cultures leads to break some stereotypes and prejudices against others as it happened in Farida Buyuran’s trip to Caucasian countries with her North-American tourists.

]]> By: Melissa https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/#comment-800 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:13:54 +0000 http://www.natellaisazada.com/?p=1154#comment-800 In my opinion your friend is doing a great job organizing such interesting tours like this! It helps to build connections between different people and their cultures. It also breaks some of the existing stereotypes and prejudices against certain countries, cultures, nations as it happened to North-American tourists in Farida Buyuran’s story. Raised in the environment of anti-Soviet propaganda in and surrounded by the prejudice on the news they were in for a pleasant surprise to see the true situation in places they had visited.

]]> By: Natella Isazada https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/#comment-799 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 05:22:05 +0000 http://www.natellaisazada.com/?p=1154#comment-799 Hi Jason, thank you so much for sharing with us your amazing experiences! The theme of this week seems to be diversity and teamwork. But first things first, let me congratulate you for joining such a high-level team that seems to live by exceptional values – looking for best talent and for the cultural fit while diversifying skill sets and backgrounds of their experts. From what I know of you, this team sounds like a great place for you to be – to contribute to their success with your many talents and to learn and grow from the team’s world-class leadership. I am looking forward to hearing more from you on this topic in the future. And did I tell you, you sound to me like you have already graduated from commenting on this blog and are ready to start writing posts again 🙂

]]> By: Jason Johnson https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/#comment-798 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:43:51 +0000 http://www.natellaisazada.com/?p=1154#comment-798 It was an interesting week for me Natella as I was introduced as a new member to an already established work team where I was able to witness workplace diversity and relationships within the team that were already well established. I was pleasantly surprised by how welcoming they all were to my presence at the meeting as a visitor from the West Coast and my new position on the team. As a Caucasian Male, it’s hard for me to fully understand some of the challenges where skin color, ethnic background, accent, or other may change the way individuals are received but I’d like to comment today on what I saw and felt within this group. What I saw was a full variety of men and women with a range of different skin colors and accents. One of the great aspects of the company I work with is their progressive position regarding diversity. They not only look for the best talent regardless of visible differences but more importantly they look for culture fit. It was apparent when I looked around the room. Beyond physical differences I saw each new member of my team for what they really were…. Experts in many different technical fields, professionals in our work environment, world class leaders, and together, a unified team working towards a common goal. Embracing culture is what brings people together and in a work environment it’s an important ingredient in a team’s success.

]]> By: Natella Isazada https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/#comment-797 Sat, 25 Aug 2018 03:59:49 +0000 http://www.natellaisazada.com/?p=1154#comment-797 In reply to Vanessa.

Thank you, Vanessa, for bringing up this excellent quote. It’s actually one of my all time favorites too. I have always been amazed at the precise and witty manner in which Mark Twain put these words of wisdom.

]]> By: Vanessa https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/#comment-796 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 06:27:47 +0000 http://www.natellaisazada.com/?p=1154#comment-796 This so reminds me of my favourite quote by Mark Twain on travel. Here is how the full version goes:

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

]]> By: Natella Isazada https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/#comment-795 Wed, 22 Aug 2018 05:49:51 +0000 http://www.natellaisazada.com/?p=1154#comment-795 In reply to Robin Woolmer.

Thank you for this comment Robin and you are most welcome! I’m so grateful that this kind of people exist and I believe they are the true leaders of our communities. Please feel free to talk to me or to get me in touch with someone you find remarkable in this concern and I’ll be happy to share their story as well.

]]> By: Robin Woolmer https://www.natellaisazada.com/how-to-build-connections-across-cultures/#comment-794 Wed, 22 Aug 2018 05:28:25 +0000 http://www.natellaisazada.com/?p=1154#comment-794 There are many people in our world that are trying to break down barriers and build connections. Thanks for sharing the story of one of them.

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