Six Pitfalls of Personality Assessments and How to Avoid Them

16 May 2012 by Peter Lee

Personality assessments can be good tools to use for developing people. But they can also become distractions to people’s productivity and growth. They can misuse and misunderstand personality tests to the extent that they become limiting and damaging. Here’s how it happens and ways to avoid these traps.

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Life Lessons from Language Learning

17 April 2012 by Kristin Boyd

There is more to learning another language than sentence structure and vocabulary. It’s more about a deeper understanding of humility, patience, and compassion.

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Coffee Is a Cross-Cultural Drink

2 March 2012 by Kristin Boyd
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Kristin Boyd continues to share about her cross-cultural life in Morocco, this time making some first-hand observations about coffee culture in Morocco while making some new friends and sipping her café au lait.

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Develop a Unified Communications Plan for Expats

9 January 2012 by Erich Boileau
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When you are living and working overseas, you should make a few smart adjustments to get a unified communication plan together early on and not add to the already stressful cross-cultural life.

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Cross-Cultural New Year’s Resolution for 2012

7 January 2012 by Kristin Boyd
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Kristin Boyd shares her top five new year’s resolutions that can apply to anyone who will be going on a cross-cultural venture in the new year.

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Experiencing Moroccan Hospitality

29 December 2011 by Kristin Boyd
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Adapting Moroccan hospitality might require a bit of blurring of personal boundaries and privacy, but it will pay off in many warm welcomes, honest insights, and newly found friendships.

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How to Overcome Culture Shock

7 November 2011 by Peter Lee
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By responding with positive and constructive behaviors rather than giving in to the negative feelings, you will lead a healthy, productive life even under heavy cross-cultural stresses.

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Rethinking and Confronting Transition

21 September 2011 by Kristin Boyd
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Transition can be hard, but by embracing change you reveal your own strength and fully experience life. As JFK said, ‘there is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.’

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Seven Must-Have’s for Language Learning

8 June 2011 by Peter Lee
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It takes more than just talent and hard work to acquire proficiency in another language. You also need time, age, and context to be working for you.

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The Language Matrix of North Africa

7 June 2011 by Peter Lee
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The language situation in North Africa is challenging for expats and foreign visitors, but it would also provide a rare opportunity for an one-of-a-kind cross-cultural and language learning.

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