by Kozai Group | Aug 10, 2022 | GCI, Global Skills, Leadership
Thanks to COVID, over the past two and a half years, expats have experienced vast lifestyle changes and had to face many unprecedented hardships. From the inability to easily visit family, friends, and colleagues to disrupted flights, major lapses in...
by Mark Mendenhall | May 21, 2021 | GCI, Global Skills, ICI, IES
As trainers, coaches, and educators, knowing which “tool” (theory, training method,teaching technique) to use requires we first being willing to use – and having a workingknowledge of – a variety of theories, methods, and practices that can be applied to...
by Allan Bird | Feb 19, 2021 | GCI, Global Skills, Leadership
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves,” (Julius Caesar, Act 1, scene 2, 135–141) Somewhere between the forces beyond our control and those within our control is latitude for navigating the complex challenges of the world around us. Though,...
by Joyce Osland | Nov 20, 2020 | GCI, Global Skills, IES, Leadership
In workplaces around the globe, we can readily see the negative results of diversity misunderstandings and mismanagement in the form of unnecessary tensions and underutilized talent. How managers and organizations handle diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) plays a...
by Gary Oddou | Sep 23, 2020 | GCI, Global Skills, IES, Leadership
Every one of us lives with uncertainty. Some of it is self-induced, while other uncertainties come from elsewhere. COVID-19 is a wildly clear example of that. It is an extreme version of uncertainty that has turned many of our lives upside down in a...
by Gary Oddou | Aug 23, 2019 | GCI, Global Skills, IES
When Mark Mendenhall and I did our original research that formed the basis for the Global Competency Inventory and the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale, we found something very interesting. Our research indicated that individuals adapted to diversity better who were...