As a member of a diversity team like ours, I have some feelings about the the intercultural/interpersonal communication.
First of all, I want to mention to respect. As a team with four members from four different contries with different traditions, it's very easy to say something that violates other's culture and that may break the bonding in the team. However, our team members are communicating with each other in a very effective manner. We share the ideas, we joked together without worrying about the others' cultures. When there is a misunderstanding in the team, we found a solution quite quickly and effectively without much arguing. For instance, when I found out that the contents in Shawn's slides and mine are quite similar, we asked Ms. Janet to understand more clearly abou the questions in our topics and that eventually solved the trouble. The way we found out the solution made me think that we were going on the right way.
Second, I want to talk about resonsibility. It's very clear that every of us goes to the team meetings on time and well-prepared for the topics. And even in our oral representation, in the Q&A section, we have done our best to answer the others' questions. Each of us tried to answer the questions on our best, regardless the question is based on whose part. I think this is very nice as each of us not only carer for himself but also cares for the team.
Lastly, I want to say that I'm feeling good about our team. We're going on the right way. I hope you can continue to perform like this in the next hard coming days. I will try to speak more to all of you to understand you better, about your cultures, your countries, and yourselves. And I will speak more to express my ideas, even the smallest ones, not just the important ones, things that may be important to our team, to all of you and I hope you can do the same to me. I think when we are able to communicate with each other at that level, our team and our project will be the best thing we can do.
Keep up the good job, guys!
I'm agree with Truong. Our team is really going well and every works hard for our common goals. However, I have some personal suggestions about the Q&A sessions of our OP. In the OP1, we do not have an MC for Q&A session and some times more than one people begin to speak. Of course this is a small problem and not very annoying to audience, but it does give people the feeling that we are not so well-prepared although we had really made a great effort for preparation. I like to make everything in order in my life, so I think it is better to have a MC for Q&A next time. This does not mean we will only focus on our own but. We should still try our best to help each other, but in a more orderly manner.
ReplyDeleteThe example that you had mentioned – overlap of slide content between yours and Shawn’s – is quite important and very apt in such a situation where we are trying to highlight the importance of teamwork. This was actually a problem which could have become very big and could have probably created a grave rift within us. This did not happen as we had to ability to think and ponder over the situation instead of just fighting about which of the two should change their content. Proud of you guys! Let us keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteLakshmi Narasimhan