Dealing with prejudice during an interview: How even you can find the right words to be direct

by marie | Jun 13, 2015 | Blog, Hot Off The Press, Canadian Workplace Culture, Intercultural Communication, Reaching Your Career Goals, Build your career

You’ve researched the company, met up with employees who work there, prepped your answers so you can answer the key questions you know the interviewers are going to ask, put on your “power suit,” and done everything you can to be ready to deliver the...

Five Skills for effective workplace communication

by marie | Apr 5, 2015 | Blog, Supervisory Smarts, Intercultural Communication, Employer Best Practices, Reaching Your Career Goals, Leadership and Management

Effective workplace communication can be learned! You may think you know how to communicate to your team or employees. But communication is not about what you think has happened when you speak with someone, it is about what actually happens between two people in...

Supervisory Basics 2: Setting Clear Expectations

by marie | Dec 27, 2014 | Blog, Leadership and Management, Supervisory Smarts, Intercultural Communication, Employer Best Practices, Reaching Your Career Goals

Setting clear expectations is critical to team success When you are an employee, you expect your team leader to let you know what your job is and to teach you how to get that job done. Many supervisors make the mistake of assuming their team already knows what to do...

Cultural Intelligence: It’s all about finding the patterns and principles

by marie | Jun 7, 2014 | Blog, Hot Off The Press, Intercultural Communication, Reaching Your Career Goals

One of the most useful reads on developing cultural intelligence is David Livermore’s tour of 10 cultural clusters around the world . The author has an approach I greatly appreciate: he is practical about approaching the daunting task of figuring out how to live, work...