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Tell your story with headphones on

Have you heard a good story lately? Most of us love to hear a good story, and we all have a great story to tell – our own. Barker and Gower show through the Narrative Paradigm Theory that story telling is a cross-culturally accepted communication tool and a quick method to build relationships,…

10/10/16

Lost in Intercultural Space….

When Jim – a US manager working for a global IT company - approached me he was to the point, very efficient and straightforward, just as his question was: ‘I got this new team, consisting of UK based staff and Southern Europeans. We are responsible for running the IT Operations for Europe…

09/10/16

The day I became Icelandic…

I love vacation! In my case, that is not because it means I can cease to think about work! On the contrary, I constantly get new views on various cultures, my professional passion. Encountering other cultures provides me with the opportunity to incorporate new approaches in my own life.…

09/10/16

Help your remote colleagues to become a team!

Why do so many managers of virtual teams forget that their team works virtually? When the manager sets aside the time and money to focus on a team building session, why do they fail to put ‘building virtual competence’ on the agenda? Perhaps because they do not realize that…

13/06/16

Globalization of Love….

Sometimes we are so busy focusing on the impact of culture on the business that we overlook where differences in culture really get personal and heated – between two people in love. Wendy Williams has put a microscope to these relationships by interviewing dozens of multi-cultural…