What are the best ways to work with Chinese Co-Workers? Share how you plan to use these top 3 keys on how to communicate and work effectively either currently or future situations with Chinese colleagues below.
I am going to start asking my chinese colleagues to repeat instructions to me, and I will go to extra lengths to help them "save face." Thanks for the video!
I am a university student (Germany), so the situation is a bit different (Even without the pandemic...) I already had the impression that some of the chinese students are scared to lose face or make somebody else lose face in intercultural communication, as most behave extremely shy. Once university will take place less online and more "real-world" on campus again, I will try even harder (If I get the opportunity) to make them feel comfortable talking with us German students and other international students. There is no blueprint for that, but I will try: 1. Being very friendly. -Friendliness is always good, but the right amount differs culturally.- 2. Listen very carefully to prevent them having to explain something that I could not understand. (Their German is sometimes not the best, so this can be a struggle, but reducing embarassing situations because of it should still be good.) 3. Trying to make them feel better anyway by stating that we could not talk if they did not speak German, as their not perfect German is still much much better than my very little knowledge of mandarin chinese. (If somebody reading this thinks: "But English...?: Not much of a problem for me, but as far as I can tell their command of English is not too helpful either.) 4. Instruct them to ask me questions if they do not understand me as German native speaker & stating very clearly that this is not a problem at all, but rather also helps me improve my intercultural/ across language barriers communication skills. Constructive comments and further advice are welcome!
I work in a chinese company ,my boss is chinese and they kinda good at work and also at teaching others work and they are very very smart and sharp too.. Im kinda proud of working with chinese.
Dan, Jennie and Victoria, this is brilliant. I have an adult English student preparing to go to China on a business trip. Your content is going to be very helpful. thank you for doing this.
Very interesting insight into the mentality of (not standing out) and conformity when dealing with subject matter. American is the only culture where Odd, Unique, Different is celebrated. This.. is the invisible bridge between the cultures we believe. EGO is always a soft spot leveling the playing field and a tactful card if played right. ..Play it wrong and it's game over..in short IT'S ALL A GAME
this video is interesting, the techniques that you talked about when working with a Chinese co-worker is very similar to the same techniques that you can use for working with some American dyslexic people such as myself (those techniques would have been very useful years ago to me while I was going to school and starting new jobs, (HTC group 3), Thank you for this video Shifu
Hi can u do a video about a foreigner married a Chinese and they want to open a business in China. What are the things they have to do, especially visa wise. Thx.
for some reasons listening my chinese coworkers talking to each other in chinese it sounds that they are fighting all the time, the language sounds agressive:).i mean i dont know which one of chinese language are they talking. also when they talk to me in english it seems they are yelling at me little bit:D. i dont think thats the intention, but is comes out like that
Exactly! Had the same issue, in my experience they seem to be lacking of social awareness, not realizing how the people around them may feel. Sometimes is bit hard.
It's so funny to watch this video. The Chinese colleague you guys talking about is exactly Me. And I am international students, so true that we've been training not to be judged but judging others all the time. LOL. That "shy" people think about is just a fear to be judged.
What about a chinese co -worker inventing excuses not to do his job or do extra tasks when he is free anyway. "I already did that", "I guarantee it is ok", "That could never happen" are some excuses. Is this typical chinese or is he just a lazy co-worker?
