Task: Filing a submission form with Betsy Andrews and following through with content based on Marrakesh presentations and direct input from Holly, Justine, and Jonathan.
Task: Identifying current issues of interest to the community and coordinating with speakers and staff on presenting relevant background information to the community. It could be used as a platform to do both: (i) build capacity on the issue and (ii) form policy-related advice among our members.
Social media are a powerful communication and approach tool, they connect us and allow us to interact constantly, for this reason we bring this webinar on "Good practices in social media" to give participants tools for good and effective account management, publication of content and interaction with their audiences.
What you need to know when working in an intercultural organisation?
Working within ICANN can be challenging, for staff as well as for the numerous volunteers that form this international organisation. Collaboration across the globe and over various time zones, the different perspectives you have whether you participate as an employee or as a volunteer and last but not least often it is the lack of understanding for each other’s cultural background and behaviour which are a source for conflicts.
The good aspect is, that the ICANN community has all the sources to overcome intercultural misunderstandings, we just have to talk and to listen to each other.
This interactive workshop shall help to understand each other’s challenges. We will explore the “secrets” of our different cultures on some dedicated examples such as:
Verbal communication (speed, tone, irony, volume)
The art of small talk
Time sensitivity
How to dress
Eating manners
What is expected from a community leader?
How work hierarchies in your country and which effect they have at your performance at ICANN?
… just to name a few
We will start with a topic related to communication and would like to experience in a first workshop:
“The Art of Small Talk”
Questions to be discussed are inter alia:
What are do and don’ts in a small talk?
Which topics you should never touch?
How important, or less important, is small talk in a region for building trust or just as am matter of politeness?
How sensitive is a culture with regard to speed, tone, irony, volume?
How do you approach a person you would like to get to know?
This workshop addresses the worldwide At-Large Community. We will reach out to At-Large Members from each region asking them to present their local traditions, rules and behaviours. Presentations shall be short while and creative. They can include for instance slides, videos, cartoons …
If this initial workshop is a success, we should organise follow up sessions on the other topics and introduce the format to the wider ICANN Community.