Third Culture Kids: Repatriation
To our readers: Repatriation is often miss-understood. Often times coming home is more challenging than going abroad. People always assume that coming home is going to be easy, you know the culture and the system, how it works. You are often overwhelmed with the expectations of others that you should be happy to be home […]
Cultural training puts everything into context
When it comes to international development, one world doesn’t fit all. Here’s why you need to be trained before your train leaves the station. A franchisor’s international team must stay at the nicest hotels, dress to the nines and spend leisurely time getting to know prospects over good food at fine restaurants. But before they […]
A Mindful Path to Global Leadership
A Mindful Path to Global Leadership training integrates the practice of mindfulness—attention and awareness—with the practical tools of effective cross-cultural management, enabling leaders to bring a wider range of their capacities to today’s increasingly complex and dynamic work environment. Outcomes of program include: More effective goal attainment through discovering new approaches to work Increased focus […]
Good Read: How to take coffee in cannes without causing a stir and more insider tips on tipping abroad
To tip or not to tip? The oldest of travel conundrums. Every country has a unique set of social customs and tipping etiquette can vary greatly between different cultures. Deciding whether or not to tip is the easy part; the real problem lies in deciding how much to tip. Too little might be considered an […]
Suggested Read: “Know Thyself”
Dear Clients, I have had the privilege of working with many amazing people over the years. One of my clients who has just repatriated from her second assignment shared the following blog with me. With her permission, I am sharing it with you. It is a lovely account of the opportunities presented to us when […]
The transition that never ends: The ongoing cycle of expat Stayers, Goers and Newbies
It’s not yet Christmas . . . and already I’m thinking about June. There is a reason for that. Where I live people come and go . . . a lot. That’s the part that they don’t put in the brochure when you move abroad . . . “Adventure of a lifetime — Explore exotic […]
NYTimes.com: Canadians Adopted Refugee Families for a Year. Then Came Month 13
The cross-cultural struggle is their daily for immigrants. This is an amazing article on the reality of that struggle. Please take a moment to read it. Regards, Pam Pappas Stanoch Read the story here
New Article March 3rd
Today at yoga class the teacher paraphrased the well-known African idiom: “Alone you will go faster, but within this community, you will go farther.” Of course it depends on the community or group, but in general, do you subscribe to this thinking? Despite an increasingly global society, different countries and cultures tend to see the world somewhere […]
The End of Reflection
There are many moments throughout my average day that, lacking print reading material in a previous era, were once occupied by thinking or observing my surroundings: walking or waiting somewhere, riding the subway, lying in bed unable to sleep or before mustering the energy to get up. Now, though, I often find myself in these […]
You Break It, You Own It
The British vote by a narrow majority to leave the European Union is not the end of the world — but it does show us how we can get there. A major European power, a longtime defender of liberal democracy, pluralism and free markets, falls under the sway of a few cynical politicians who see […]