SAN ANTONIO-With globalization creating a melting pot of opportunities, the CCIM Institute and Institute of Real Estate Management used their national conference, Success Series 2007, as an international forum to deliver a street-savvy guide for doing business on all continents. The annual October event is a week of education, professional grooming, networking and CCIM testing.
The condensed version of several sessions is the passport of success is learning to respect other cultures before, not after, a deal is initiated to stave off faux pas that could kill one's ability for present and future transactions. It boils down to doing one's homework and being culturally sensitive and competent.
“One of the ways we become more culturally competent is to become more culturally curious,” Laraine Kaminsky of Graybridge Malkam of Ottawa, Ontario, said during a cross-cultural exchange for Success Series 2007, held at the Henry B. Gonazalez Convention Center in San Antonio. Kaminsky, a consultant for international training, stressed the importance of learning written and unwritten rules of other cultures before trying to work a deal on foreign land or US soil with other nationalities.
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