Kiva Loan Update –Micro Financing Gifts

In the Christmas season of 2011 we made a donation to KIVA the micro financing website.  It was a crowd-sourced donation where we asked you for your input into who should get the loan.  On the KIVA website lenders can choose who to lend their donations to and which countries or recipients will benefit

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What's new for CIC Members?

Latest Resources

Articles

• REVIEW: Reviewing the Past and Planning for the Future
  Whilst this isn't a new resource, it is one that will be helpful to you at this time of year as we traditionally review the year and plan ahead. 

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The Challenge – To provide Cross Cultural Training on a limited budget

Is it possible to deliver the quality cross-cultural training that expats need to perform effectively when the global mobility budget is tight?

We commented in last month’s newsletter that the desire to cut the cost of expatriate assignments has been a reoccurring theme in industry surveys. In fact, reducing the costs of expatriate assignments has been a continuing goal for most global mobility specialists over the past five years. 

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What's new for CIC Members?

As the year races by we hope you are enjoying your new international opportunities and want to draw your attention to the new resources available for you on cicollective.com.

Audio Resources

• NEW: Thrive in Tough Times: Teenagers - Difficult Thoughts  

In this audio recording made originally for teenagers, I talk about how to manage the negative thoughts that can be overwhelming when we are feeling down. 

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Tough Times

One of the joys and challenges of being an expatriate is a greater awareness and a wider vision of the world around us.  This can make world events extremely personal because we have visited that location, or have friends and colleagues who live and work there, or who were born there.  So our focus is often broader than it was before our expatriate experience.  That broad outward vision takes time and energy though and sometimes we don’t have that to give.  In tough times

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