Learning without borders

With Inputs from Aditi Agrawal , Ankita Garve and Priyanshi Patel
 
It gives us immense pleasure to take you through the interesting journey of one our most interesting add-on certificate course that is open to participation for students of any discipline, It is called THE CCBC Project- An acronym of Cross Cultural Business Communication. 

Funded by the Leonardo da Vinci programme, an initiative of the European Commission, this programme funds innovative practical projects and many different types of activities, enabling organizations in the vocational education sector to work with partners from across Europe and other continents.

From Bhopal , JICM and BSSS college participated in the program this year. Other participants included colleges from Delhi, Chandigarh Estonia, Slovenia and Hungary.

To begin the project, we formed a virtual company called “Blocks and Threads Pvt.Ltd” and did business with other national and international virtual companies namely:

• K.C.ELECTRONICS[ESTONIA]
• BITTERSWEET[HUNGARY]
• SMART GLASSES[BUDAPEST-HUNGARY]
• MANGALAM WEDDING WISHES[CHANDIGARH].

Our company dealt with fabrics like Chanderi ,Maheshwari, Dabu and prints like Bagh and Batik from MadhyaPradesh. “BITTERSWEET” was dealing with yummy cakes, pastries, lollypops, and candies, “K.C.ELECTRONICS” dealt with all electronic items like CCTVs etc .“MANGALAM WEDDING WISHES” was a wedding planning company while “SMART GLASSES” was dealing in spectacles.

During the entire course of this project we maintained our portfolio’s and recorded our daily progress and activities. We also had informative role- plays based on intercultural customs and habits. For example, we were divided into three teams and each team had to present a conversation including different customs and habits and greetings of various cultures. One of the teams presented a conversation based on a party which was organized on the 50th birthday of one of our team member’s wife! It was all fictitious but enjoyable.

To get a business like feel we also organized a Skype business conference with the “extremely shy boys” from the Tallinn University in Estonia and the “chubuli Punjabi kudiyan” from the government girls college in Chandigarh!!

Through this three month long exercise we came to know how a business runs and what all hindrances occur when we communicate with each other and with different countries. It helped us enhance our communication skills , knowledge of corporate work culture and familiarized us with the business etiquettes in different countries. It also gave us an invaluable opportunity to practic English in life like situations.

We had a great learning experience and we would like to thank our CCBC Coordinator Mrs. Rolii Khare for giving us practical exposure and supporting us through the thick and thin . It has indeed been a rewarding project, one which will be cherished forever!