THE SAME TRAINING. 100 CULTURES. 100 DIFFERENT MEANINGS.
- Kketan Amarnath Waghmare
- Mar 20
- 1 min read
I’ve run training sessions in three very different environments.
A hotel in India.
A remote island resort in the Maldives.
And a cruise ship somewhere in the middle of the ocean.
The training carried the same intent.
The same meaning.
But the room never reacts the same way.
In India, discussions start immediately.
Questions, disagreements, personal stories.
In the Maldives, the team itself is already global. Apart from Maldivian nationals, you have colleagues from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and several other countries working together on one island.
Cruise ships take that diversity to another level entirely.
Sometimes over a hundred nationalities working under the same brand.
And that is where training becomes interesting.
You say one simple sentence.
“Take initiative with the guest.”
One person hears empowerment.
Another hears risk.
Someone else hears hierarchy.
Same sentence.
Different meaning.
That is when you realize something about global teams.
In global teams, training is not about delivering the same message.
It is about creating the same understanding.
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