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Cultural Dimensions Reflection
A structured group reflection for interculturally mixed teams: learn the main dimensions along which working cultures differ (power distance, individualism/collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, communication directness — Hofstede, Trompenaars, Meyer), then map recent misunderstandings and frictions in your own collaboration against them, and agree what each side will read differently from now on.
- The report's own warning: dimension frameworks invite stereotyping — teach them as lenses on situations, never as boxes for colleagues
- Whoever holds least structural power in the room risks becoming the exhibit; work on episodes, not on persons
Practical
- Time
- 60-120 min
- Group
- 3–24 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Short input on the dimensions (reading or mini-lecture); real collaboration episodes
- Mechanisms
- cognitive-reframing, perspective-taking, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- drive.google.com/file/d/1I0ThTPl75h3M6iLzZ7KgYOsiLcrZw3Bw/view — IDG Phase 2 Research Report & Toolkit (2022), open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- No named licence; published in the IDG Phase 2 report by an initiative that describes itself as open source — see source record
Source link not checkable automatically — the page renders in the browser rather than in the response; last read by hand 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Codified in the Phase 2 Toolkit (Thomas Jordan); frameworks by Hofstede, Trompenaars, Meyer — Intercultural competence training
In this directory via IDG Phase 2 Research Report & Toolkit (2022)
The Phase 2 family also names group simulations and communication exercises; those exist in many named variants (e.g., simulation games) and are left for a later extraction pass rather than recorded generically.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25