Last month I wrote about mindfulness – how it can help us in a volatile, uncertain, ambiguous and changing world.
Mindfulness is also a critical component of cultural intelligence. If you are living or working in a different culture or working with people from different cultural backgrounds it will be helpful for you. So let’s look at what mindfulness is and consider how it relates to cultural intelligence.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 9:26AM by Trisha Carter What are the important things to consider in setting up a mentoring program?
What are some of the potential stumbling blocks in mentoring relationships?
How should mentors be trained or supported?
Can Cultural Intelligence help a mentor to be more effective in situations of diversity?
Many in Australia have been watching the US Presidential election race with bemusement. Some have been watching with anxiety and fear.
As a potential future leader of America, Donald Trump adds to many people’s increasing feelings of uncertainty. News of Brexit, terrorism and the refugee crisis presents a world that appears more volatile and chaotic.
Add in a changing job market (increasing use of artificial intelligence in the workplace, greater diversity in gender, age and ethnic background), and the constant demands that the 24/7 connected world brings - its no wonder the uncertainty increases.
Volatility, uncertainty, chaos and ambiguity – the acronym VUCA describes what many people are experiencing.
There are excellent business models that help plan for business continuity through VUCA but what are the personal skills that can help take the focus from the apparently growing craziness, the constant overwhelm of tasks, or the complexities of managing in a diverse global world?
Friday, September 23, 2016 at 10:00AM by Trisha Carter This webinar has now been moved to the member area.
Global leadership - the challenge of the 21st Century.
What does a leader need to be effective in a global organization? Leading people from different countries, different cultures, with different languages, experiences and perceptions can be challenging.
Research shows that cultural intelligence can make a difference in successful global leadership. What is cultural intelligence (CQ)? How can leaders increase their cultural intelligence and how will it impact their leadership?
These are the questions we focused on in this webinar.
I interviewed an expert in the field of leadership and Learning and Development and one of my favourite facilitators. Kerry Rosser has worked with leaders at all stages of their leadership journey. She has designed and facilitated leadership training at senior levels for some of Australia’s largest businesses, and coached leaders in executive roles. Her leadership development experience also includes training and coaching leaders from government and academia.
With a degree in adult education and postgraduate accreditations from the University of NSW and Harvard University Kerry can help you with leadership skill growth. Together we looked at how CQ can enhance your leadership skills in the global arena.
Have you ever felt that feeling of being an outsider? Feeling like you didn’t belong, weren’t welcomed, weren’t sure what to do?
Perhaps you’ve felt it occasionally when you’ve moved outside your usual places of belonging. Perhaps you feel it daily in your work or everyday life.
We know from a psychological perspective that we are driven to find belonging. We want the comfort of feeling at ease; that we know what to do, what to expect. We want the group of people around us, to accept us as one of them and to support us.
“The need to belong is a powerful, fundamental and extremely pervasive motivation” … without belonging levels of mental and physical ill health increase.
Baumeister and Leary 1995
At a very basic level our sense of belonging is often tied to people who are like us. The people who speak our language, share our ethnic background, or our religion.
And yet, in a globalized world with people studying, working and living in countries and cultures different to their passport countries, that picture of belonging is changing.
If our sense of belonging is dependent on being the same gender or race or religion, or class or educational background as the other people in the room, or on the bus or in the neighbourhood, that feeling of belonging may be diminishing.