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People with intercultural skills are in great demand in both private and professional arenas, and an overseas sojourn is the ideal time to expand knowledge and experience. Confronted with different people daily, many skills are learned automatically, but getting a maximum out of an international experience requires conscious attention to skill acquisition. Insight into other's mindsets or our own does not always come naturally. Neither do many of the day-to-day skills in dealing with different others. Make the most of your experience. Get to know the world on the three-dimensional level.
How will you look back on your stay abroad? Will you see it as a great experience, a time of learning or just something you got through? What improved or new skills and abilities will you take home with you? There are many opportunities abroad, but we often concentrate on dealing with the difficulties and forget to focus on opportunities. It takes thought and planning to optimize our gains. Reframe, refocus and make the most of your time in Vienna. Information: Opportunities in Vienna and Austria, planning strategies. Self-Assessment: Assessment of skills and abilities, new perspectives Outcomes: Catalogue of opportunities, awareness of limits.
There is no limit to intercultural learning. Once we are able to manage our lives abroad we often think that we are done with intercultural learning, but there is always more to learn. And increasing multiculturality in almost any country of the world means these skills are useful anywhere. Our multicultural world offers opportunities to those who are skilled 'multiculturalists'. 'Know thyself' is a key to intercultural communication. We do not judge other cultures from 'point zero' but from our own cultural standpoint. Lack of understanding our own cultural mindset is a limitation in cross-cultural communication. Take a journey of exploration into your own values and beliefs. Information: Parameters of culture, cross-cultural differences Self-Assessment: Cultural self profile, cross-cultural abilities inventory Outcomes: Improved awareness and cross-cultural abilities.
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