Leadership. A key to success in today’s business world. It seems like everyone knows what it means to be a leader, what skills to work on to be a better leader, how to work with people to be perceived as a good leader. But is it really?
Afternoon trip to Stonehenge
Can you imagine entering the magic world of druids, getting to know their secret spells, feeling the presence of the dead ancestors? Would you like to see the picturesque landscape with a circle of massive stones in the centre of it? Would you like to “touch” the history and really feel as if you travelled […]
The Culture Map – Evaluating scale. How to give cross-cultural feedback?
Giving constructive feedback has become an important skill in today’s business world. What does it mean to give a good feedback in a multicultural environment?
The Culture Map – Communication: Low and High context cultures
Low and high context cultures – what does that mean? How does England compare to Poland? What impacts country’s location on the communication scale?
The Culture Map – introduction
This post is for you if you would like to learn more about yourself in interaction with people from different cultures, enhance your cross-cultural communication skills and simply enjoy learning about the world!
Stereotypes – a negative attitude or the way our brains work?
Stereotypes can be a good thing, can give us knowledge about other cultures and be a good conversation starter. They really don’t necessarily need to be bad.
How to feel less lonely when you first move abroad?
Feeling lonely when abroad is a completely normal feeling. How to cope with it? How to focus attention on something else? How to feel better in this new place?
Language fluency abroad – necessity or needless ability?
I have been wondering about how language fluency may impact one’s stay abroad even before I left my home country. Today I want to share some of these thoughts with you and get your opinion as well. Is knowing the local language absolutely necessary when moving abroad?
Oz moments abroad
The moments of surprise and comparing things to our own culture is very common when living abroad. Oz moments are the ones that stay with us most. Want to learn more? Read on.
A piece of India in the heart of London
London is such a diverse city! Here is a short review of our trip to Europe’s first traditional Hindu Temple, in London of course.