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What You Will Learn: Why 75% of people surveyed responded that, due to the global pandemic, they no longer feel comfortable shaking hands in a job interview Sara describes a pre-pandemic training exercise she and her team would employ to demonstrate the discomfort people sometimes experience when getting close to others Why shared meaning around our cultural behaviors informs how comfortable or uncomfortable we feel doing those behaviors How the “handshake” ritual came to be historically, why many of us don’t know this origin, and what this tells us about how we view and question other cultures’ behaviors Why it takes a significant disruption to change the shared meaning we associate with certain long-held cultural behaviors Why understanding the shared meaning behind behaviors is the key to understanding and changing our organizational culture Why our actions are created by our conscious thoughts, which themselves stem from our unconscious filters Why it is crucial to define the behaviors that you want to s