Ebenezar Wikina

Ebenezar Wikina

Founder of Policy Shapers | British Council New Narratives Youth Advisory Board member | Harvard & London School of Journalism Alum | Mandela Washington Fellow, TEDx Organizer

Location Nigeria

Activity

  • Ebenezar Wikina made a comment
    Task 2 – Understanding the preferences of others

    My Manager and I have different communication preferences. I'm tilted more towards emails and texts while he prefers calls and face-to-face communication.

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    What are your preferences?

    I notice that I prefer Indirect, Conciliatory communication spiced with humour. I believe that this comes from my family background as this was the kind of communication my parents often used to speak to my siblings and I.

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    The benefits of intercultural competence at the workplace

    One of my professional dreams is to work as an International development specialist and building my competence will better prepare me for this role

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    Task 1 – Map your cultural identity

    I worked on this with my wife and we noticed that because we were born within the same decade in the 90s, we have both been influenced by similar factors and that has in many ways made us more compatible as life partners

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    Influences on cultural identity

    I grew up in Nigeria watching Cartoon Network on Cable TV. In many ways these cartoons shaped my knowledge of America and the world at large

  • Ebenezar Wikina made a comment
    Culture and identity

    As a member of the Global Shapers Community (an initiative of the World Economic Forum), getting the opportunity to travel to Cape Town in 2015 and Geneva in 2016 both helped me to build tolerance for other young people because I was exposed to other cultures, sexual orientations and beliefs and although I was raised in a strict conservative Christian...

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    How do you describe culture?

    Values, beliefs, and methods

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    Your learning log

    I use Google Doc for virtual learning and that's what i will use in this course

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    Welcome to the course

    Hello everyone, Ebenezar Wikina here from Nigeria

    As the world becomes closer and hyper connected, the chances of interacting with someone from a different culture each day either in course of work or schooling has increased. This is why it is important to have this important skill so that one can easily engage with all that come along your way