by Anna Ridgway | Dec 23, 2017 | blog, Communicating across cultures, Developing trust, ethical business
I was in luck. I had gone out without a backpack and the bin had long gone, but there was an ‘I Love Salvos Stores’ cloth bag on the road below the lookout, still intact. I shook it out and stepped off the road onto the lookout over Melbourne’s Yarra River off...
by Anna Ridgway | Feb 10, 2017 | blog, Communicating across cultures, export, international business, Managing across cultures
Australia’s now-sliding reputation for clean business has rested on laurels achieved in a less globally connected past. Its four-year slippage down the international corruption perception rankings has earned a reprieve, thanks in part to recent false accounting...
by Anna Ridgway | Apr 14, 2016 | Adapting to change, blog, Business goals, Communicating across cultures, Developing trust, Managing across cultures
I had an opportunity to access a top-notch IT service provider for my business. If I hadn’t navigated successfully through some cultural differences, I might have lost it. It’s a common but avoidable occurrence: businesses torpedoing opportunities and...
by Anna Ridgway | Apr 11, 2016 | Adapting to change, blog, Communicating across cultures, Global dexterity, Global teams, international business, Managing across cultures
After reading Lakoff and Johnson’s classic Metaphors We Live By, which describes how we use metaphors from our everyday experience to understand existing and new ideas and help flex and shape our thinking, I’ve been thinking of metaphors to describe...
by Anna Ridgway | Jan 8, 2016 | Adapting to change, blog, Coaching Case Studies, Communicating across cultures, international business
This is the story of a professional dream gone bad overseas in a country with a known yet poorly understood cultural environment. It has parallels with the stories of countless professionals gifted with expertise, experience and cultural knowledge but lack of cultural...
by Anna Ridgway | Aug 30, 2015 | blog, Business goals, Communicating across cultures, Developing trust
Industry, government and training providers collaborating to build a future globally mobile workforce This week I attended the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) National Conference in Melbourne to see how our private vocational and higher...
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