CLGO Students Experienced Cross-cultural Communication

CLGO first-year students took part in a cross-cultural communication activity named “Shanghai Scavenger Hunt” with global senior managers from Fresenius Medical Care on March 14. 

Two students and two managers were assigned to team up randomly, competed with other seven teams with the same organization structure to finish a list of tasks in Shanghai downtown area, with the least money and time.

The students packed a lot of experiencing and learning into a short time period. During the trip, we should take photos of the whole team playing Chinese musical instruments and dressed in traditional Chinese costumes. Also we had to collect the item representing the culture of our team and find out the items standing for Five Phases “Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth” in traditional Chinese philosophy. This competition was a vivid lesson of cross-cultural communication for us, as a member of a cross-cultural team logged dozens of miles and visited different local places, bridged the cultural gap and reached the goals.

We took this activity as a good case for our course “Communication for Managers”, and shared feelings and finding in class.