1. Cris Wildermuth, EdD, SPHR Drake University www.drake.edu/leadership cris.wildermuth@drake.edu An Intercultural Leadership Simulation

8. ♥BINGO! ♥BARNGA! ♥Conversity®!

10. What did you notice about the questions?

12. ♥Play a simple card game ♥Learn the rules – “practice play” ♥Play for real

18. What I experienced What worked and didn’t work Relationships with real life Connections to leadership

19. A complex set of instructions

20. Our internal programming “software” Geert Hofstede

21. “Culture consists of the unwritten rules of the social game. It is the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others” Hofstede, Hofstede, & Minkov, 2010, p. 6

24. Personality Culture Human Nature Inherited & learnedSpecific to the individual LearnedPertaining to the group InheritedPertaining to the human condition

27. ~L. Robert Kohls

28. ONCE IN A A LIFETIME PARIS IN THE THE SPRING BIRD IN THE THE HAND

29. “ We try to fit people into patterns based on our previous experience.” Hofsede, Pedersen, & Hofstede, 2002, p. 18

30. “We see pretty much what we want to expect to see and reject the possible interpretations that don’t fit with what we expect.”

31. ♥Don’t assume what you said was understood. ♥Don’t assume that what you understood is what was said. From Craig Storti, Cross Cultural Dialogues

37. Find as many connections as you can!

38. ♥ Human beings love to find connections. ♥ Connections are a matter of perception. ♥ The key to success is to multiply the number of connections people are able to perceive.

39. ♥ Finding connections through intentional conversation.

40. things you’ll REMEMBER things you’ll SHARE things you’ll DO

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