CULTURAL COLUMN – The benefits of life-long cultural learning, which informs, develops and prepares your global talent for the war of talent.

CULTURAL COLUMN – Organisations recognise the value of taking responsibility for cultural training – managers need to be assessed for their motivation and ability to actually manage multicultural teams rather than selecting those managers who can simply do the “technical” job.

CULTURAL COLUMN – Across cultures the concept of ‘face’ is misunderstood: it is a measure of one’s personal status, good name, and good character. Face keeps relationships intact, it maintains group harmony and it promotes group solidarity. But it can also be ‘lost’.

CULTURAL COLUMN – Recognising that staff, clients or partners might differ in skin colour, race, religion, accents and language fluency is simply not enough information on which to design an effective cultural training program.