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MAY PROGRAM

Friday, May 31, 2002 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

PROGRAM:
Assertiveness and Intercultural Dialogue

PRESENTER:
Robert Anderson & Yukiko Kuroda
Presidents, McDonald Anderson & P.Y. International

PLACE:
Reitaku University Tokyo Kenkyu Center (Shinjuku i-Land Tower 4th Floor)

LANGUAGE:
English (Q&A can be in either English or Japanese.)

FEE:
member 1,000 yen \ non-member 2,000en membership

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Talkative "foreigners"? Silent Japanese? How do you solve problems and handle conflict in working groups where cultural assumptions about communication differ so greatly? Robert Anderson and Yukiko Kuroda will present their approach to assertiveness training, a method that uses E.T. Hall's concept of low context and high context communication as a theoretical base. They will discuss the theory and show examples of learning activities designed to create awareness and to develop assertiveness skills. They have used this approach with Japanese and non-Japanese participants in both English and Japanese.

PRESENTER:
Robert Anderson is the president of McDonald Anderson, a communication consulting and training firm based in New York City. Yukiko Kuroda is president of P.Y. International, a training and consulting firm in leadership and organizational development based in Tokyo. As partners, they have conducted many workshops on assertiveness and other communication topics in foreign and Japanese firms over the past five years.

 
How to get there?:
i-Land Tower can be accessed directly from Nishi-Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi Line by following the underground path. From JR Shinjuku Station it is approximately a 10 minute walk. Once you get to the building, select an elevator that stops on the 4th floor. After you get off on the 4th floor, walk to the right until you get to the last door on your left.