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# Springboards Blog

## [Interpreting and Improving Performance Reviews of Multicultural Employees](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/interpreting-and-improving-performance-reviews-of-multicultural-employees)

 Oct 25, 2019 12:27:00 PM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [Performance Reviews](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/performance-reviews), [Multinational](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/multinational), [Workforce](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/workforce)

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Have you ever encountered a performance review in which a manager criticizes a behavior that’s tied to an employee’s cultural norms rather than to performance issues?![](https://www.workforce.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/Interpreting-and-Improving-Performance-Reviews-of-Multicultural-Employees.jpg)

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## [Talent10x: SpringBoards Consulting’s Nadia Nassif on Supporting Multinational Workers](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/2019/9/23/talent10x-springboards-consultings-nadia-nassif-on-supporting-multinational-workers)

 Sep 23, 2019 12:03:48 PM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [Japan](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/japan), [leadership](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/leadership), [Multinational](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/multinational)

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SpringBoards Consulting CEO and founder Nadia Nassif talks about her experience working in Tokyo, the challenges that multinational workers face and how to coach them for successful careers.

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## [Inclusion Is the Key to Cross-Cultural Collaboration](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/2019/9/13/inclusion-is-the-key-to-cross-cultural-collaboration)

 Sep 17, 2019 2:58:47 PM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [unconscious bias](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/unconscious-bias), [diversity training](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/diversity-training), [workplace](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/workplace), [cultural bias](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/cultural-bias), [diversity and inclusion](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/diversity-and-inclusion)

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***The future of work is collaborative. With increasingly multicultural workforces, how do organizations overcome cross-cultural challenges to collaboration?***

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## [Listen Up: The Multicultural Development Balancing Act](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/2019/8/27/listen-up-the-multicultural-development-balancing-act)

 Aug 15, 2019 8:03:00 AM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [ATD](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/atd), [Diversity](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/diversity), [Multicultural](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/multicultural)

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## [The Key to Multicultural Professional Development? Get Everybody on Board!](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/2019/7/31/the-key-to-multicultural-professional-development-get-everybody-on-board)

 Apr 3, 2019 1:04:00 PM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [Development](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/development), [Cross-Cultural](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/cross-cultural), [Diversity](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/diversity)

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Most HR leaders I’ve met are well aware that the increasing diversity of the workforce is driving demand for cross-cultural training and development. But company management isn’t always equally aware. And today, to compete in the talent marketplace, professional development efforts must not only address the needs of multicultural employees, but also help managers to understand the language, cross-cultural, and communications challenges that an English-speaking and often American business environment presents to those from other cultures. 

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## [How Coaching Can Help the Majority Culture Understand Difference](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/how-coaching-can-help-the-majority-culture-understand-difference)

 Mar 5, 2019 7:30:00 AM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [Coaching](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/coaching), [Development](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/development), [Chief Learning Officer](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/chief-learning-officer)

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Have you ever avoided giving feedback to a foreign national employee for fear of appearing prejudiced or insensitive? Managers are obliged to provide thoughtful, candid feedback as a core component of professional development. Yet managers, often representatives of the dominant or “majority culture,” may not always feel comfortable or confident in addressing foreign national employees with regard to cultural disconnects. They may not be fully aware of how misunderstandings related to social and behavioral differences can lead these employees to disengage. [As Professor Erin Meyer put it](https://hbr.org/2014/05/navigating-the-cultural-minefield): “Stereotyping people from different cultures on just one or two dimensions can lead to erroneous assumptions. Even experienced, cosmopolitan managers often have faulty expectations.”

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## [Do I Really Need a LinkedIn Profile?](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/2019/7/31/do-i-really-need-a-linkedin-profile)

 Nov 14, 2018 11:02:00 AM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [Coaching](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/coaching), [Candidates](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/candidates), [Linkedin](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/linkedin)

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**Preparing Advanced Degree Candidates to Interview Successfully **

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## [Coaching on Demand: Many Promises and a Few Precautions](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/2019/7/31/coaching-on-demand-many-promises-and-a-few-precautions)

 Sep 28, 2018 2:00:00 PM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [Coaching](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/coaching), [OnDemand](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/ondemand), [Millenial](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/millenial)

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Record employment levels and a super-competitive recruiting environment… A highly selective and well-informed millennial workforce… Rapidly evolving technology-enabled services…

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## [Successfully Communicating Across Cultures](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/successfully-communicating-across-cultures)

 Sep 27, 2018 8:13:00 AM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [employee engagement](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/employee-engagement), [Coaching](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/coaching), [Cross-Cultural](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/cross-cultural)

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In early 2016, Emma Seddon picked up her life in the U.K. and moved across the world to China on a three-year international secondment in her role as talent development manager at Jaguar Land Rover. Her colleagues who had previously completed long-term assignments in China warned of “shang-highs and shang-lows,” and gave her as much advice as possible.

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## [Stemming the Tide of Millennial Departure: Why Training Alone Is Not Enough](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/news/2019/7/31/stemming-the-tide-of-millennial-departure-why-training-alone-is-not-enough)

 Jun 14, 2018 2:55:00 PM / by [Nadia Nassif](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/author/nadia-nassif) posted in [Turnover](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/turnover), [Millenial](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/millenial), [Training](https://blog.springboardsconsulting.com/topic/training)

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In its 2016 poll “[Millennials: The Job-Hopping Generation](http://news.gallup.com/businessjournal/191459/millennials-job-hopping-generation.aspx),” Gallup reported that only half of millennial workers expects to remain in their current job one year from now; and 21% of millennials say they've changed jobs within the past year, more than three times the number of non-millennials who report the same.

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