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Cross-Cultural Training: Creating Foundations or Creating Judgments'
From Expatriate and Cross-Cultural Su, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I coach expatriates and conduct cross-cultural trainings in a parallel fashion in my career. And what I’ve been noticing on more than one occasion is that many of my coaching clients — those who have gone through a cross-cultural training at one time or another — carry much stronger judgments than those who didn't. That got me thinking — what's the connection between the judgments and the cross-cultural training'
We've all heard the common clichés that populate...
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Completing this year: three steps that will help you create the next year
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Some people think that ?to complete' means to finish or to succeed. Yet ?to complete' is better defined as ?to make something whole' — which, in turn, means letting things be as they are or as they are not. Accepting things as they are (or accepting them as they are not) allows you to clean up the space that until now has been taken up by that thing you've thought of as incomplete/unaccomplished. Accepting things as they are (or are not) allows you to claim back the energy that's been...
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New Year's Resolutions' Wishes' What is it where you are'
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On my other website — a Russian-language site that's dedicated to healthy and sustainable lifestyles — we have a poll. The question we ask is ?What's most important to you in the New Year holiday'? And we have five multiple choice answers, one of which is ?Expectation of something new and better in the New Year'. Not surprisingly the majority of people mark that as their answer.
Indeed for many of us the New Year signifies new beginnings, new chances, new hopes that whatever we...
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Success: what does culture have to do with it'
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When I went to the Miami Bal Harbour Mall for a business lunch-meeting a week ago, I knew I entered another world. And not because of the high couture brands that I saw there — but because of the amount of ?plastic' that surrounded me. Not ?plastic' as in credit cards, but ?plastic' as in ?plastic' people, both women and men.
Those of us without any plastic surgery were in minority in that restaurant. And since I've just recently moved to Miami from Russia — another place on...
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Gracias, Grazie, Merci, ???????: What am I thankful for in my expatriate life'
From Expatriate and Cross-Cultural Su, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
As the US prepares to celebrate one of its very important holidays — Thanksgiving — I too am thinking about what I am thankful for. Especially since this year, as opposed to many other years, I actually get to spend Thanksgiving in the US and the mood of giving thanks is everywhere.
And so here is my list of what I am thankful for in my expatriate life:
I am thankful that I've been able to live in different countries and among other cultures;
I am thankful that as an expat I get...
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Trailing and not Failing: How our relationships can sustain us in expatriation'
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As many expatriate spouses do, I gave up my job when we decided to start traveling the world with Foreign Service. I had a great job — the one that paid well and the one that was interesting — but then my husband got an opportunity that was too good to pass on. And so we decided that I can perhaps find something as we move from place to place.
The first country we went to ended up going through the recession less than a year after we got there, so getting a job in my profession...
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Legally Abroad or Experiencing Law Enforcement When Overseas
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I got my very first traffic violation ticket yesterday. Maybe I've been lucky or maybe I am a law-abiding driver (well'most of the time anyway), but the irony of the fact that my first citation happened in my own country didn't escape me. How did I manage to get in trouble in a country where I know the rules while I never did in other countries where I was not so sure of the rules'
It's a good question and maybe the answer to it lies in ?paying close attention' even in places we think we...
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To tip or not to tip'is that a cultural question'
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A couple of weeks back I left a 36% tip at a restaurant. Not intentionally. I just didn't notice they had already included an 18% tip and I added my 18% to that. I only noticed my mistake several days later when going through the receipts. Sigh.
That was a lesson for me. And not only in reading paperwork before I sign it, but also in cultural habits and cultural conditioning. Now that I once again live in the US, I am becoming more and more inclined to tip'everyone and everywhere. I tip...
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Culture Shock Revisited or Is It Really All About Going Through the Stages
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Whenever I give a presentation on Culture Shock, I try not to speak a lot at the participants. Instead I allow them to share and, as we discuss what Culture Shock means to them, we discover how different each Culture Shock experience is for everyone.
However, if you read the research available out there on Culture Shock, you'll discover, that most of it presents the phenomenon of Culture Shock as something that consists of five (5) stages. And so when people look at this definition, they...
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To belong or not to belong: is that the choice we make when we move abroad'
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One of the issues many of my expatriate clients grapple with is the issue of belonging. For many, life overseas is a never-ending exercise of trying to fit in and yet in the end always feeling ?foreign'. It's as if an invisible fence is erected between you and the people around you — and each time you think you are getting closer to jumping it, you realize it moved farther.
A recent article in the Economist (The Others, December 17, 2009) discusses various reasons as to why people...
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Your identity in expatriation: will it stay or will it go'
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Some of you may remember this quote from the movie Fight Club (1999): ?You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. ? ? The question then becomes: who are you'
Identity and its possible loss during expatriation is one of the most recurring issues expatriates bring up in coaching sessions. And for everyone identity signifies something different: for some it's the loss of a...
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