166: How to Work in Different Cultures, with Nathan Czubaj

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2014

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Nathan Czubaj: Emails from Mumbai

I wanted go somewhere that would really be different…that I could learn most about the world and most about myself.

Preparation

Talking to people is most helpful.
Pick up some of the language, at least the greetings and please/thank you.
Give yourself time for the mental preparation.
“I’m never going to find the things that I’m used to. I need to get used to the things that I can have.” -Nathan Czubaj
“I didn’t need all the things that I thought I needed. My definition of wants and needs changed radically.” -Nathan Czubaj

Obstacles

Some of the obstacles are how people do business that you would never expect.
It was hard to impose my way of doing things and our Western way.
People don’t always trust Westerners.
What you’ve been successful with back home doesn’t necessarily translate.

Attitudes and Behaviors

I had to forget that I was an American and try to be a local.
“Today is going to be more memorable than the most memorable day all year back home. I’m going to learn more today than I would in a typical month back home.” -Nathan Czubaj

100% of the proceeds from Emails from Mumbai* are going to benefit iSanctuary, an organization that works in India to help end the global challenge of human trafficking.

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0:00.0	Do you ever work with customers in different cultures?
0:03.0	Are any of your colleagues or employees in or from another culture?
0:09.0	Perhaps would you consider working in another country or culture someday?
0:15.0	If your answer is yes to any of those questions, stick around for an important lesson on how to prepare for working abroad. This is Coaching for Leaders
0:25.1	episode 166. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential.
0:39.0	Greetings from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:43.7	This is a weekly coaching show to help us all
0:46.6	be better leaders through improved communication,
0:50.0	human relations, and personal leadership. I'm so glad that you're back with us for another
0:56.4	episode and today I am thrilled to welcome a guest who I've been working with over the last few years at Dale
1:04.2	Carnegie and I'm thrilled to have him along with because we're going to tackle a
1:08.8	topic that I've actually been meaning to tackle a while here on the show and have had a few people ask about,
1:14.3	which is how to work in different cultures and how to handle different cultural aspects that come up
1:21.6	when working abroad or working across cultures and this is the first
1:27.8	of hopefully a number of conversations that will happen around that and the person who I have with me
1:35.0	is someone who has lived this firsthand
1:38.0	and that is Nathan Schubai.
1:40.0	Nathan is a senior vice president
1:42.0	at our office here in Dale with Dale Carnegie in southern
1:45.1	Los Angeles. We've worked together over the last few years extensively. He is awesome
1:51.5	at what he does and has been a real leader in the Dale Carnegie business
1:56.5	both from a business growth standpoint and also he is a extremely talented instructor so he brings a lot of wisdom on how to work
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