{"id":4760,"date":"2012-10-16T04:41:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T04:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2019-09-19T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:39:59","slug":"openness-and-trust-in-offshore-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/openness-and-trust-in-offshore-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Openness and trust in offshore relationshipsOpenheid en vertrouwen in offshore relaties\u00d6ppenhet och f\u00f6rtroende i offshorerelationerOffenheit und Vertrauen in Offshore Beziehungen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"I am reading a book called ‘100% succesvolle IT-projecten’, written by\u00a0Klaas Jung\u00a0and Gerard van de Looi. They write about the key success factors in IT projects. One of the chapters that stand out for me is about relationships and openness. They write:<\/p>\n

‘The more you open up for the other person, the bigger the chances that you receive trust. The contradiction is that people often get more closed, because they are afraid to be punished for being open.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ik ben een boek aan het lezen genaamd \u2018100% succesvolle IT-projecten\u2019, geschreven door Klaas Jung<\/a> en Gerard van de Looi<\/a>. Ze schrijven over de belangrijkste succesfactoren in IT projecten. Een van de hoofdstukken die er voor mij bovenuit steekt is die over relaties en openheid. Ze schrijven:<\/p>\n

\u2018Hoe opener je bent naar de ander, hoe groter de kans dat je vertrouwen creert. De tegenstrijdigheid is dat mensen vaak juist meer gesloten worden omdat ze bang zijn dat ze gestraft worden voor openheid.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jag l\u00e4ser just nu en bok som heter \u201d100% succesvolle IT-projecten\u201d skriven av Klaas Jung<\/a> och Gerard van de Looi<\/a>. De skriver om de olika framg\u00e5ngsfaktorerna i IT-projekt. Ett av de kapitlen som utm\u00e4rker sig \u00e4r det om relationer och \u00f6ppenhet, d\u00e4r de skriver:<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Ich lese ein Buch namens \u201e100% successvolle IT-Projekten\u201c (100% erfolgreiche IT-Projekte) geschrieben von Klaas Jung und Gerald von de Looi. Sie schreiben \u00fcber die Schl\u00fcsselfaktoren in IT-Projekten. Eines der Kapitel, das f\u00fcr mich besonders heraus stach, handelt von Beziehungen und Offenheit. Sie schreiben:<\/p>\n

\u201cJe mehr Sie offen gegen\u00fcber einer anderen Person sind, desto gr\u00f6\u00dfer ist die Chance, dass sie Vertrauen erhalten. In an atmosphere of mutual trust, you can be open, you can discuss problems and you solve problems quickly together. But when we are not open and keep problems for ourselves, the other starts mistrusting us. In turn, the other will also react more closed and we create distance.’\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In relationships that cross borders, cultures and language, I believe the challenge for making IT projects work well, depends on being open even more than in local projects. Openness differs between cultures. Unless we learn how open another person from another culture is and expects us to be, communication will get blocked and trust is low. The goal in an offshore relationship is to work together comfortably and as we already have distance in culture, language and geography, we need to decrease the personal distance.<\/p>\n

The authors describe what factors contribute to an equal relationship on which trust and communication can be built.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Respect<\/strong>: If one person has less respect for the other person, the relationship will grow distant. If one person will be obedient to the other person, this can lead to suppression. This is often based on the idea of the customer ‘we pay the invoices so you have to do as we say’. If both sides have respect for each other, the relationship will be equal and will work well on longer term. The perception of respect varies strongly across cultures, so we need to explore how the other person perceives us and respect for other people in general.<\/p>\n

2. Forgiveness<\/strong>: In all projects, people make mistakes. We need to learn from mistakes to get better. If one person doesn’t forgive the other for his mistakes, the relationship will break eventually. Culture plays a big role here. In cultures where hierarchy is important, the relationship between boss and employee or customer and supplier tends to be different from cultures with less power-distance.<\/p>\n

3. Maintenance<\/strong>: In all human relationships, we need to invest energy in keeping the relationship healthy. In an IT project, it is important to invest in the relationship not only in the offer-phase, but during the whole project. With people being remote from each other, the challenge here is even bigger as we have less frequent (face to face) encounters.<\/p>\n

4. Fear of conflicts<\/strong>: In an equal relationship, all topics (positive and negative) can be openly discussed. People can then openly share problems, without being afraid of a conflict. People from different cultures tend to have a different attitude towards conflict. In order to make the relationship strong, we need to be open and we need to explore from both ‘sides’ to what degree we can or cannot create conflict with the other person.<\/p>\n

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