Posted in tools, tagged articles on January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you want to do a little reading about intercultural things, there is an online textbook with an excellent assortment of scholarly, but easy to understand, articles. The title is actually Psychology and Culture, so that tells you their slant.
Table of Contents:
Introduction and Overview
Conceptual, Methodological, and Ethical Issues in Psychology and Culture
Perspectives from Various [...]
Posted in tools, tagged cultural differences, DMIS, similarities, video clips on January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
6 billion Others — what an amazing project, and a gift to the rest of us that can’t travel everywhere and talk to all these people. You can go to this website and watch clips of people from around the world tell us what they think, feel and believe about life — love, [...]
Posted in why we need intercultural consulting, tagged globalization, IBM, intercultural consulting, intercultural training, Nokia, transnationals on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, global corporations are transforming themselves into ‘transnationals,’ moving work to the places with the talent to handle the job and the time to do it at the right cost…. Companies are devising new strategies to reach global scale faster…. Moving people across borders…. The companies that play this global, mobile game best will emerge [...]
Posted in tools on January 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I love this tool. VisualsSpeak gets into a different part of the brain and triggers differnt thikning. But in a way that still makes sense and is usable and accessible to those of us who are predominantly linear, right-brainers. Most recently I used it in a strategic visioning session with a [...]
Posted in assessment, conflict, tagged inventory, model, theory on January 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
All of the following information is taken from the ICS Facilitator’s Guide and Interpretive Guide. All quotes come from the Facilitator’s Guide.
The ICS was developed by Dr. Mitch Hammer as a statistically validated measure of an individual’s approach to resolving conflict with others. It “is designed to help [people] better understand approaches for [...]
Posted in SIETAR, tagged conference on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I’m thinking about SIETAR, I’d like to recommend the Global SIETAR Congress in October of this year (2008). It is being held in Granada, Spain and is the first (or at least the first in many years) global conference. It is a place for newcomers to the field as well as seasoned [...]
