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Cross-Cultural Moments: Opportunities for Awareness

You can manage change and complexity; and tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty, or  put them to work as catalysts for personal and professional progress. Living far from status quo, simplicity, clarity and certainty can open up creative thinking and provide wider perspectives that help you make the difference you want to make.

Coaching is a methodology to help people achieve the positive change they want in their personal and professional lives -- and for their organizations.  I guide and support the process through evidence-based practices and an array of tools from various disciplines.

During our sessions, you focus on the present, while I guide with questions and reflect back your thoughts and ideas from another perspective as an impartial sounding board. When you are open to the process, quite powerful insights can come forth. I bring my personal strengths to our coaching partnership -- curiosity, creativity, resourcefulness, insightfulness and critical thinking – while you bring yours. It is this interaction, in a space of trust and open communication, that brings results.

Consciously developing cultural intelligence can help you move forward personally and professionally while living and working in different cultural environments. In addition, if relevant, you may choose to access cross-cultural dimensions, cross-cultural tools, cultural indicator assessments and a 360° global leadership feedback tool during our coaching sessions.

I believe in the power of leading from our natural strengths, an aspect of positive psychology, and also call on: behavior-based approaches, adult-development and learning theories, complexity theories, personal change management and transition models. I actively seek new approaches that facilitate your progress.

To help you achieve more self-awareness along the way, you may choose to engage in  360° feedback assessments, personality assessments, strengths inventories and values identification exercises.

Results come from commitment, thoughtful reflection and hard work to rewire for desired change. You go as far as you wish to go. You set the agenda and the define the desired outcome. Contact me to know more about how it works. Visit my blog to know more about how I work.

Why Cross-Cultural Moments?

Critical incidents are born of cross-cultural moments. You can put them to work for cultural and self-awareness.

 
Elizabeth Abbot

Cross-cultural moments: a twitch, a deep gut-wrenching punch, a squirmy, queasy, lightheaded feeling that comes on when you find yourself outside your cultural comfort zone. We begin by recognizing these physical signals in our bodies.

Being understood and respected for who you are and what you represent is a universal value. We may not agree with the culturally based values and beliefs we find when we leave our cultural comfort zone, but we have an obligation to try to understand where they come from and respect the complex world from which they spring.

Our cross-cultural moments are generally a function of our own cultural values, beliefs and understanding of how the world works – not theirs.   While this shift in perspective can be difficult to embrace, it opens up new routes to personal and professional progress.

Living and working in different cultural environments adds a layer of complexity to your life and work – a curious twist that can unsettle your sense of who you are, affect your confidence in how you operate…..and launch you into excellence.

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