Choose your fear when it comes to delegation Go ahead, which one are you? No one can do the work as well as you can. Delegating means loosing control over time, quality. When you do delegate, you just don’t get what you want so it’s easier to do it yourself. It’s...

Your team’s improved performance is a grateful moment away Recently I was working with a client who was feeling very overwhelmed and not feeling very in control of his virtual team. I don’t need to list the reasons, I think most of us have similar variations of the...

Other people's issues are not part of my 5-year plan Getting a job in your chosen field means that you get to do what you love every day. When moving up the ladder means adding managing others to the ‘to-do list’ it’s just something you get on with. When you enrolled...

What I am really asking you, is how tolerant are you of uncertainty? The reality is that some people perceive the uncertain elements of cross cultural situations as being threatening, ‘not knowing’ makes them uncomfortable. Communicating and collaborating with people...

The process of negotiation with your international client is not always linear, it varies depending on their cultural framework. Often it feels more like a dance where you take one step forward and three steps back. Or the same few steps can be repeated over and over...

One of the key competencies I like to focus on with my clients is the capacity to recover quickly from adversity. There are lots of suggestions out there from exercise to positive self-talk. But which one is the best? Which one is the right one for me? I don’t know...

I became interested in culture as I witnessed and experienced time and time again people pointing the finger of blame at others for their failures to connect, achieve results, perform. Despite the extensive research and advise on overcoming cultural differences we...

Five months in Lisbon now and I still struggling to speak the language. I understand a lot when I read it but when it comes to talking it’s something else entirely. I pride myself on the fact that I speak Italian and German but I don’t remember them being so hard to...

Epictetus, one of the great Stoic philosophers taught that although life may be subject to constant change, we as human beings are ultimately responsible for how we interpret and respond to those changes. Having spent 18 years living and working abroad, two different...