What happens when the management practices that once made you successful stop working across cultures, countries, and time zones?
In this episode of Collaborative Culture, Dr. Kristine Gentry turns the tables and interviews co-host Monica M. Smith about her new book, Making It Real: Amplifying Global Collaboration with the Trade Winds GUIDE Framework.
When experienced leaders begin managing across cultures, they may discover that the approaches that once worked no longer produce the same results. Communication styles differ. Expectations about hierarchy, deadlines, decision-making, and collaboration may remain unspoken. Leaders can find themselves working harder, stepping back into day-to-day management, and still gaining less traction.
In this episode, Dr. Kristine Gentry interviews Collaborative Culture co-host Monica M. Smith about her new book, Making It Real: Amplifying Global Collaboration with the Trade Winds GUIDE Framework.
Monica shares lessons from her experience leading international teams and introduces GUIDE, a framework designed to help leaders and teams strengthen their ability to collaborate across cultural differences:
Kristine and Monica explore how global teams can establish shared “house rules” rather than defaulting to the norms of headquarters or expecting one culture to do all the adapting. They also discuss the importance of understanding what motivates individual team members, recognizing different ways of contributing, and creating enough clarity for teams to work more autonomously.
Through stories from India, China, and other international settings, Monica illustrates how leaders can prepare carefully, interpret cultural cues, remain authentic, and adjust when the situation does not unfold as expected.
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