Barbara Mink is a Senior Lecturer of Management Communication at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. She is a management communication professional with a focus on intercultural communication, leadership, and persuasion. Professor Mink teaches persuasive and informational writing for business purposes, as well as how to craft business presentations that are clear, concise, and compelling. She was news director of WHCU radio from 1978 to 1986 and taught radio journalism at Ithaca College and Cornell. Professor Mink served on the Tompkins County Legislature for 12 years and as its chair for five. She was also founder and director of the Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts from 1999 to 2011. Professor Mink is a visiting lecturer at ESCP Europe in Paris, where she teaches effective leadership through communication. She is also an active painter with an international presence.
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Cross-Cultural Communication
How to Work With Anyone From Anywhere
Monday, February 22, 2021, 1pm EST
Event Overview
Being able to identify and relate to the communication styles of people from other cultures is a valuable life skill, but how does one develop it?
For Barbara Mink, a senior lecturer at the Johnson Graduate School of Management and an active painter with an international presence, the interest in international communication stems from early experiences living in other countries.
Professor Mink’s international journey began as an exchange student in German-speaking Switzerland at age 17. After four years of high school French, this required some deft recalibrating in terms of both language and cultural mores. At 19, she took a year off from college and lived on an Israeli kibbutz, working mainly with children. As someone relatively fluent in Hebrew on arrival, she honed her language skills by telling favorite children’s stories in Hebrew. “The best part was trying to figure out the right word for something from ‘Curious George’ and having the five-year-olds shout out suggestions. Working with speakers of another language, as opposed to lecturing at, is always more effective, and creates a sense of empathy on both sides.”
Not everyone gets the opportunity to live abroad, of course, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need cross-cultural communication skills or won’t have an opportunity to hone them. In this session, Professor Mink will discuss how to recognize our own communication styles and why it’s important to value methods of communication that differ from our own.
For Barbara Mink, a senior lecturer at the Johnson Graduate School of Management and an active painter with an international presence, the interest in international communication stems from early experiences living in other countries.
Professor Mink’s international journey began as an exchange student in German-speaking Switzerland at age 17. After four years of high school French, this required some deft recalibrating in terms of both language and cultural mores. At 19, she took a year off from college and lived on an Israeli kibbutz, working mainly with children. As someone relatively fluent in Hebrew on arrival, she honed her language skills by telling favorite children’s stories in Hebrew. “The best part was trying to figure out the right word for something from ‘Curious George’ and having the five-year-olds shout out suggestions. Working with speakers of another language, as opposed to lecturing at, is always more effective, and creates a sense of empathy on both sides.”
Not everyone gets the opportunity to live abroad, of course, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need cross-cultural communication skills or won’t have an opportunity to hone them. In this session, Professor Mink will discuss how to recognize our own communication styles and why it’s important to value methods of communication that differ from our own.
What You'll Learn
- Ways to be more aware of your own communication style
- How to understand other people’s modes of communicating
- How to recognize connections between other cultures and communication styles
- Why it’s important to be flexible in how you communicate to meet others’ styles
Speaker
Barbara E. Mink
Senior Lecturer
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Senior Lecturer of Management Communication and Assurance of Learning Director, Johnson Graduate School of Management
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