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Follow-the-Sun Global Technology Team

Follow-the-Sun Global Technology Team is an activity where participants experience working in teams and discuss communication issues. 

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Flashes

Flashes is an activity where participants implement the six dimensions to cross-cultural exchanges. 

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Find Favorite Words

Find Favorite Words is an activity where participants name positive words for a culture. 

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Culture Shock (Hofstede)

In this activity, participants learn about the degrees of culture shock. 

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Cross-Cultural Encounters

In Cross-Cultural Encounters, participants of this activity learn about the cultural reasons motivating people's reactions. 

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Awareness of Cultural Difference

This activity also teaches the dimensions of culture and cultural difference. 

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Awareness Exercises

Participants in this activity will imagine an interaction and their responses to another person.

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Attribution Exercises

Participants in this activity will examine their cultural and personal preferences. 

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Redundanica

Redundanica, a simulation, helps  participants to develop empathy for those communicating in a second (non-native) language.

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Piglish

Piglish is a language-learning exercise developed by J. M. Blohm, C. Hartley, & T. Lapinsky. It teaches the process of learning a new language.

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Exclusion

Thiagi's jolt, Exclusion, asks participants to describe their emotions of exclusion and inclusion in a team scenario.

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DOTS- Version 2

This activity, from the Transformer, examines how we silently convey group identification and how we feel belonging or exclusion.

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Building Utopiastan

L. Nevalainen & M. White's activity in Building cultural competence: Innovative activities and models identifies characteristics in cultural values.

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Dividing the Spoils

Dividing the Spoils, an activity by C. Storti in Figuring foreigners out, examines individualist vs. collectivist cultures. 

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Chatter

Thiagi's simulation Chatter analyzes group interactions and communication.

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Rafa Rafa

RaFa RaFa is another simulation from Simulation Training Systems and is similar to BaFa Ba Fa.

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Bafa Bafa

The simulation BaFa BaFa, published by Simulation Training Systems, examines cultural stereotypes, language, and communication between different groups. 

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Alpha-Beta Partnership

This activity from Stringer & Cassiday's 52 Activities for improving cross-cultural communication also examines cultural patterns between different groups.

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Albatross

T. Gochenour's cultural simulation in Beyond Experience features a Welcoming Ceremony between the members of the Albatross culture and guests.
 

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The Emperor's Pot, aka Eastern and Western

In this simulation, participants visit a culture that differences from their own (“East” culture vs. “West”). They become aware of some dimensions of culture (e.g. time, history, work) and their impact on behavior.

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Music and Memories

Participants in this activity will describe the cultural and emotional meaning of a song with a person of another culture. 

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Flower's POV

This reflective activity will ask participants to imagine another point of view and reflect on empathy. 

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Danger of a Single Story

Participants using this media resource will learn how narratives and stories, such as "single stories," are reflective of our stereotypes.

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Building a House for Diversity

Participants in this activity will consider an "elephant experience" and how to promote diversity in the workplace.

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Shipwrecked

This simulation has participants practice their verbal and nonverbal communication, decision-making, and suspending their judgment to work with others to figure out a solution with limited information. 

 

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