A hug, a kiss, a shake, a bro-hug?

Ok, I’ll admit it – I’m

😘 a kisser,

🤗 a hugger,

🤝 and a shaker …..

What are you – any funny stories, advice, do’s and dont’s you want to share from your own culture??

I went in for a double cheek kiss with a colleague once – but I went for the wrong cheek for the first kiss and 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙨!! AWKWARD !!

Every few weeks I have a refreshing DE&I conversation with our amazing Katie Gleghorn, and this time around, we talked about some really simple but quite profound challenges around different 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 that my team face every day. You see, my team are globally dispersed and our daily interactions both physically and virtually, are often with people from very different cultures to our own.

* My go-to baseline greeting is a 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗲-> friends, colleagues, customers or strangers.

* If we know each other reasonably well (friend, colleague, maybe customer) and you’re she/her/hers – I’ll probably lean in for a 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘀 !! It might be awkward – I’ll judge that half way in, and laugh it off if it goes wrong!

* Friend, family or colleague and identifying as he/him -> we probably do the 𝗯𝗿𝗼-𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗲-𝗵𝘂𝗴 thing if its been a while, otherwise it’s probably the hand-shake

What about you?

Erin Meyer has some great material worth looking at if you find yourself interacting with different cultures and needing to take your foot form your mouth!!

#culture #diversity #globalization #greetings