CULTURE IN NEGOTIATIONS

I want to talk in this post about 2 classes that we have the last month, I know…. Maybe it makes no sense after 2 weeks, but better later than never. Moreover, it good to refresh your memory about what you did ( ;P ). The point is, the classes I want to write are the one of the presentations and the one of the cultural style negotiations.

About the first one, I must say it was a really interesting class. I was a little bit late so I missed the first part of the first group… that was a pity cause then it was harder to understand the topic and I am a big fan of Jack Sparrow….  The other presentations were also really good, and I learned a lot about it. The simulation about a negotiation with different voice characteristics was awesome!

I also think that people enjoy our presentation about multicultural negotiations… is always interesting to know how in different cultures people use one style or another, however we cannot believe all the stereotypes. 

In the next lessons we continued with this topic, and Mia explained us about other cultures and the way in which they proceed when they are negotiating. It is impossible to study all of them in one class but at least she mentioned the style negotiation of the nationality of all the members of the class. I have to say, that I have no experience in general, but currently I am collaborating with the Australian university in a research and I can appreciate that diagram there is close to the reality. They are very relax and friendly and actually all the meetings are quite informal. With Spain, I was not agree at the beginning, mainly because of the emotional and romantic (I am not sure if I understand what does it mean) factor. But after thinking a little bit, though I consider we are really serious in negotiation (on the opposite of what people might think) we are more emotional of what I thought and, if we don’t have kind of friendly-trust on the other person, goodbye negotiation then.

Any way, Finnish negotiatin was without doubts, the funniest one, I wasn’t sure if it was true, but according to the blogs, is not far of reality haha.