1. Several websites offer helpful guidelines for communicating across cultures. See, for example, www.casagordita.com/diverse.htm for a discussion of "How to Make Meetings Work in a Culturally Diverse Group." What are some of the behaviors you might value and expect of others? What are some ways to be an effective leader even when those expectations are not met?

2. Visit the website, www.silkrc.com and explore the link to foreign nationals who discuss their feelings about "the American workplace." What are sources of tension for them? How often are their difficulties based on misunderstandings in communication? How might these misunderstandings be overcome?

3. The Public Concersations Project, (PCP) www.publicconversations.org/pcp/index.asp offers resources designe to pormote constructive kialogue about potentially divisive public issues. Enter one of the PCP dialogue forums. How might the groundrules for contributions encourage constructive rather than destructive conflict?