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Check out more global leadership content: http://www.tco-international.com/category/global-leadership/ tco international description: We help teams with virtual collaboration at tco international to help them save time, be more effective and connect globally with clients. Cultural diversity in the workplace means leaders need to be aware of different communication styles.

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Overall, my leadership journey will never end. With the time goes, my goals will be different. For now, I want to be a cross-cultural leader to fit this global and diverse industry. In order to achieve my goals, being a relationship builder and being awareness and mindfulness is vital to reach my ideal leader. There are still a lot I have to improve and my action strategies are helping me to build a cross-cultural leader in my future career.

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Benefit - Being Awareness and Mindfulness of Different Cultures

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Benefit - Being Awareness and Mindfulness of Different Cultures

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A diversity working environment leads to “a broader and deeper base of ideas, opinion, and experiences of problem solving, creativity, and innovation”. “Culturally mindful individuals understand that there are different cultures at play and they use their skills to get the best from the situation they are in”. Therefore, being acceptable at cross - culture is vital to make the business become successful.

Commiscer global, (n.d.). Mindfulness and Cultural Awareness. Retrieved from http://www.commisceo-global.com/blog/mindfulness-and-cultural-awareness

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Listening their ideas, and supporting them with both work and personal life, it is an essential way to gain trust and respect from employees. Employees want their leaders to consider them as a meaningful individual part. When trust is built, followers will have motivation to work for you and reaching high quality level of work. Therefore, in school, the benefits for team is to create successful project, by team members’ positive attitude and effort, and moreover, they enjoy working and feel meaningful with the leader who is a relationship builder.

Daft, R. L, & Lane, P. G. (2005). The leadership experience. Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South-Western.

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Action Strategy - Being Awareness and Mindfulness of Different Cultures

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Action Strategy - Being Awareness and Mindfulness of Different Cultures

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Secondly, as a cross cultural leader, I should be acceptable to any culture. Even though I have some cultures that I do not really understand which is reasonable, I should do convince myself to know about the culture, and maybe from the process, I would change my mind and start getting interested in it. For example, watching dramas and TV show is the most interesting way to get familiar with the new culture, and visual is always the most attractive method to attract people’s attention.

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Action Strategy - Being Awareness and Mindfulness of Different Cultures

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Action Strategy - Being Awareness and Mindfulness of Different Cultures

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First of all, learning about knowledge for different cultures. Through communication and behavior can easily see the knowledge of their cultures. When my team members are coming from different countries, I should be cultural intelligence. When I have something confused about their culture, or there is something that I don’t know whether I can do it or not, I should ask them immediately, or do some research on it. Since every culture has its sensitive side, if you don’t know what it the right way to do, you may cause embarrassed moments, and it is unrespect to their culture. Therefore, it is vital to be mindfulness of cultural difference in our multicultural working environment.

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Second Goal - Being Awareness and Mindfulness of Different Cultures

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Second Goal - Being Awareness and Mindfulness of Different Cultures

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Being awareness and mindfulness of different culture. In order to be a cross-cultural leader, being awareness of different culture is an efficient way to get along well with followers come from different cultures. Moreover, culture has an important influence of people’s behavior. Learning about people’s behaviors help to find out the most comfortable way to work with them. Therefore, being awareness is a significant way to avoid the misunderstandings and conflicts due to culture shock.

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Action Strategy - Relationship Builder Leader

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Action Strategy - Relationship Builder Leader

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Secondly, being candid but not an over-strict person. When I work with my team, I like to be harmony. As a leader, it is essential to be candid, but it does not mean criticizing him in front of the table, negating his work. In school with working as a team, I should consider other members’ feeling, and trying to understand their thoughts. Asking questions about their work, it is an effective way to learn what are they thinking and it help to build positive attitudes and self-confidence . Whenever the mistakes appear, talking to the employee personally, and being patient to listen their ideas. It is the most efficient way to correct the mistake, employee will appreciate that you keep his pride, and also it is the start of building relationships.

Daft, R. L, & Lane, P. G. (2005). The leadership experience. Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South-Western.

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First Goal - Relationship Builder Leader

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First Goal - Relationship Builder Leader

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My first leadership goal for my leadership is being a relationship builder leader. Building relationship with people from different cultures is vital for keeping peaceful in the working environment. Nowadays, the relationship between leader and followers does not only delegate and implement, but also a closer relationship could help to build a thriving working environment. Good relationships with my followers is an effective way to delegate, and I don’t want to know that my employees follow me is only because I am a leader, but I am the person that they like and respect, it is comfortable for them to implement my plans. “Employee motivation affects productivity, so part of a leader’s job is to channel followers’ motivation toward the accomplishment of the organization’s vision and goals”. Therefore, building positive relationship with my followers is a strategy to convince and encourage them to be loyal with me and the company as well.

Daft, R. L, & Lane, P. G. (2005). The leadership experience. Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South-Western.

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Action Strategy - Relationship Builder Leader

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Action Strategy - Relationship Builder Leader

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In order to become a relationship builder leader, there are some action strategies could help me to achieve my goal. First of all, enhance my communication skills. “Communication is essential to building trust and gaining commitment to the vision and strategy”. However, it does not mean I say everything directly, but use strategies to get closer to them, and listen their opinions. For example, hanging out with team members after work. Getting out of the working or studying environment, employees will be relaxed and are easier to show their real thoughts. Being as a friend after work, it is essential for a leader who wants to build a positive relationship with your employees. Receiving basic knowledge about their personal life, whenever they have troubles about the personal life, as a leader and also a friend, it is your responsibility to help and support them.

Daft, R. L, & Lane, P. G. (2005). The leadership experience. Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South-Western.

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My leadership vision is being a cross-cultural leader in my future career. Hospitality industry is a globalized business, and it is a multicultural working area. Employees are coming from different areas and customers are from all around the world. Cross-cultural leadership could not only help me have a better understanding of my employees and customers need, but also it is an effective way to reduce and solve conflicts due to the difference of cultures. Cultures are different, so developing my awareness of culture could also enhance the dynamic in the working environment. Therefore, being a cross-cultural leader is vital in this globalized industry, and also it could build a comfortable working environment to every cross-cultural employee.

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Relationships for Leadership Success & High Performance Teams

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Learn how #leaders build better relationships from LearnLoft President @johngeades. Learn more about our Getting Leadership Ready Program designed to develop the modern professionals leadership skills and potential. http://learnloft.com/individual

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Surprising Power of Human Relationships | Starla Fitch

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Successful leaders build and sustain long-term relationships | Steve Cockram | TEDxABQSalon

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Steve Cockram's shares his thoughts on leadership and human relations, and the importance for entrepreneurs to truly understand who they are and what it's like for their family, friends and team to be on the other side of them.

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This is my leadership journey, it is going to present my two significant goals that help me to be an independent leader in my future career. Moreover, in order to achieve the two vital goals, you will see my strategies that guide me to become the ideal leader, with the action plans and skills that I should practice and develop in my daily life. In addition, during this journey, you will also learn about how these goals help to build my leadership overall, and what are the benefits for others. To sum up, from my leadership journey, you will see how I get my future ideal and successful leader step by step.