Is learning from experience the best way to learn?

Learning from experience really means learn from making mistakes. But cross-culture and international business mistakes are expensive!

Wouldn't it be nice to learn from someone else's mistakes instead?

TMC's classes are based on lessons I've learned from 20+ years in Chinese Asia; figuring out and fixing many mistakes. Learning from my experience saves you time, money and a whole lot of stress.

I explain how and why Chinese think about and see key actions like problem solving, motivation, contracts and communication, then offer tips, techniques and suggestions for coping, all illustrated by real-life examples. 

You need more than stories, examples, tips and techniques though. As Confucius put it, if you learn without thinking (without knowing the why behind what you learn) you are lost. You need theory.

Success in Chinese Asia depends more on thinking skills than any special techniques or such. My workshops all include some simple theory background, primarily about communication and how culture affects actions and attitudes. The goal is to help participants gain an overall framework or structure to plug their own examples and experiences into. This is how students continue learning long after the workshop ends.

Learning works best when participants are actively involved. I like to make students work, to think and to answer questions, even those new to Chinese Asia. All classes include exercises and case studies, though not so many in the half-day ones. 

I like humor. Laughing students listen better and accept new ideas easily, and forget just how much they are learning or how hard they are working. Even my Chinese students laugh while they learn logic!

If you come to a class be ready to laugh, think, argue and work.