INTERCULTURAL – Buzzword, curseword or reality?
How do you deal with the topic? Does it affect your day-to-day work and private life? Here is a summary of what you can look out for in global teamwork this month in order to improve it [...]
Intercultural competence
🥳 Yeah, another course finished and raring to go, helping teams and leaders in intercultural environments become more interculturally aware and competent and be able to work with each other more [...]
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There’s no time like the present….. in the series: intercultural teamwork
…. ie.: Don’t put it off until tomorrow. What is important in your culture: looking at the here and now or looking to the future? This article on Hofstede’s sixth and final [...]
Gender roles – what do you expect from the “stronger, or weaker sex”? (Series: intercultural teamwork)
“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons…but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” – Gloria Steinem “Girls can be athletic. [...]
A question of permission – what do you allow yourself at Christmas? (Series: global teamwork)
“The question is not who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me”, Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist What do you allow yourself during the holidays? How far can you go? This is [...]
I or we, that’s the question here! (Series: global teamwork)
“We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King Jr. Do you prefer to work in a team, from the top of the hill, in the middle of the ‘melee’ or in the [...]
Germany vs. the UK & tolerance of ambiguity (Series: global teamwork)
If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten. Abraham Lincoln Only a gambler in despair stakes everything on a single throw. Johann von Schiller When the winds of [...]
All animals are equal. Or not? (Series: global teamwork)
“All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others.” You may remember this quote from Animal Farm by George Orwell from your school days. Similarly to the fable, cultures [...]
What programme are you on? (Series: global teamwork)
If you have read Asterix books as enthusiastically as I have, then you will certainly be familiar with Methusalix’s quote: „Ich habe nichts gegen Fremde. Einige meiner besten Freund*innen [...]
Intercultural communication
🥳 Yeah, another course finished and raring to go, helping teams and leaders in intercultural environments to communicate and work with each other more effectively. What a great course at SISU. [...]