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In today’s world, technology drives everything we do. Companies and businesses are more commonly offering remote positions or allowing employees to work remotely part time. This has generated the need to have norms and tools and that allow managers to lead and team members to contribute to projects and make changes as necessary. However, even with modern technology at hand, you and your team could face difficulties in adapting to new protocols and procedures involved in remote work.
Decision Making across the World
As organizations move from local to trans-global enterprise models, they require leaders who can adjust to different environments quickly and work with partners and employees of other cultures. Managers from different cultures tend to have different views of the self, which affects individual’ cognition, goals in social interactions, and consequently influences their behavior and goals in decision making.
Let me start this training by sharing an examples collected from one of my trainees!
6 Practical Tools for Performance Conversations
One of the primary purpose of Performance Management System is an Performance Conversation . It allows the person receiving it know where they stand when it comes to their current performance that in turn enables them to have clear expectations. As a result, they feel reassured and safe and are more likely to work with their leader towards improved performance and better results.
Your employees are what keeps the company going and hence it is imperative that you keep the employees performing to the best of their ability. One of the most effective and lucrative ways is through frequent performance discussions. Debating on their work performance can only have positive results, which is why it’s so important to incorporate frequent performance feedback as part of how you run your business.
Strategies to close cross-cultural communication gaps
Internet seems to be the perfect channel for finding business opportunities and connecting people and ideas across the world, but accessing it won’t guarantee you the massive results you dreamed of. According to the International Labor Organization (2009), 70% of cross-boundaries business ventures fail due to cultural differences. Quite a big percentage I would say. Globalization spread its capital across the world, selling clear Mission statements on markets and well-disposed Principles inside for shaping employees behaviors. Even so, in terms of money only in Europe and United States 25 billion dollars are lost every year, as a result of inefficient Cross Cultural-Communication.
How to have a nice performance dialogue
Among the themes most challenging for managers across industries, performance related conversations with team members is always somewhere on top. Now why is that so complicated? Isn’t it something like “Hey Jack, you’ve done a good job but I know you can make it even better…”?
Colorful Culture – HR Summit
Today, Colorful Cultures is in Timisoara – Romania– attending HR Summit.
Leadership Lesson: Guidelines for effective team meetings
Truth be told, people hate office briefings. We tend to grumble and complain when we go to briefings, so instead of briefings we call them team meetings or gatherings, but sometimes even this change can’t help. The truth is that these meetings are important for the business development and everybody is aware of that in some way.
How will your team perform if you are not in the office?
Back to the last summer, it was the middle of August, the heat of the summer holidays. Yet, I was working hard in my office. My schedule was full of coaching sessions with tired, stressed out managers up to their ears in work and they all seem not to have time to enjoy the sunny days. How did this happen?
Cross cultural communication – at your fingertips
There is an old chestnut saying “if a tree falls into a forest and nobody hears it, did it happen?” Following this saying, if we don’t talk about cultural differences, does this mean they don’t exist?
We have constantly opening new offices and recruit (put together) more international teams than ever in the human history to follow global opportunities. And this is why cross cultural interaction are of ever growing interest for us.