International projects

In at the deep end of international communications

9 August 2011

Some time ago I pos­ted a piece titled “Provid­ing ongo­ing assist­ance in the devel­op­ment of inter­na­tional com­mu­nic­a­tion skills” where I dis­cussed ways organ­isa­tions can sup­port their per­son­nel when they are work­ing in vir­tual team based pro­jects, how some ongo­ing sup­port can help the team to con­tinue to grow together and through that growth deliver a […]

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Turn right at the hot dog stand…

7 August 2011

I was hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with a col­league recently where we were dis­cuss­ing dir­ec­tions from an air­port arrivals gate to the city shuttle bus, which, in a little detail was to turn right at the hot dog stand then left a few meters later, exit through the glass doors and look for the shuttle bus. […]

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Why use international teams for projects?

2 October 2010

One ques­tion I have not really touched on in my earlier posts is why company’s and indi­vidu­als would under­take pro­jects using multi national or inter­na­tional teams.  There are a great num­ber of drivers to the approach, some are quite obvi­ous, oth­ers subtle and I will only con­sider a small num­ber of the most com­mon here […]

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