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Does Your Organization Have a Globally Inclusive Mindset?

Dec 10, 2021 12:18:34 PM / by Nadia Nassif posted in Coaching, diversity and inclusion, Multicultural, Training

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Five Tips to Ensuring Multicultural Inclusion

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How Coaching Can Help the Majority Culture Understand Difference

Mar 5, 2019 7:30:00 AM / by Nadia Nassif posted in Coaching, Development, 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: “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?

Nov 14, 2018 11:02:00 AM / by Nadia Nassif posted in Coaching, Candidates, 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

Sep 28, 2018 2:00:00 PM / by Nadia Nassif posted in Coaching, OnDemand, 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

Sep 27, 2018 8:13:00 AM / by Nadia Nassif posted in employee engagement, Coaching, 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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When it Comes to Coaching, Messaging Matters

Feb 8, 2018 7:08:00 AM / by Nadia Nassif posted in Coaching, Learning and Development, Chief Learning Officer, Messaging

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Across L&D meeting agendas and HR discussion platforms, talent development is a perennially trending topic. Organizations have deepened their commitment to fostering cultures in which their people can develop and thrive. The L&D teams I’ve met with are eager to explore learning options both to accelerate the growth of their high-value employees and enhance their recruitment efforts, and they are pushing for budgets to do so.

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Business Writing Skills: A Source of Competitive Advantage...or Reputational Risk?

Aug 15, 2017 4:48:00 PM / by Nadia Nassif posted in Competitive Advantage, Coaching, Writing

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In consulting, analytical expertise is expected, but strong writing skills set the bar. In this article we speak to Eileen Harrington, consulting industry veteran and marketing communications expert, about the unique challenges facing consultants when it comes to writing, and some practical tools and approaches toward improvement.

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Shouldn’t Your Talent Mobility Strategy Include Coaching?

Jun 8, 2017 11:46:00 AM / by Nadia Nassif posted in Talent Strategy, Coaching, Talent Mobility

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How L&D Leaders Can Assess and Choose the Best Coaching Solutions 

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Unconscious Bias in the Workplace: Perspectives of a Cross Cultural Coach

Oct 19, 2016 2:26:00 PM / by Nadia Nassif posted in Coaching, Bias, Multinational

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As forward-thinking organizations deepen their commitment to cultures of diversity and inclusion (D&I), their human resources and management leaders are turning to a related, but less well-understood topic: unconscious bias (UB). Also referred to as implicit bias, UB has emerged as a major issue in the news, and a key theme in discussions ranging from politics and policing to campus culture and social behaviors.

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Do You Have a Coaching Game Plan for 2017?

Sep 20, 2016 4:24:00 PM / by Nadia Nassif posted in Year-end reviews, Coaching, Development

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Building a Strategic Follow-up to Year-end Reviews

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