The global nature of commerce means today's businesses are always looking for opportunities outside of their domestic markets.
Acquiring, or merging with, a foreign company is common way to achieve this.
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Satiate your inner Culture Vulture with regular news and posts about cultural awareness, doing business abroad, working in a multicultural environment, HR diversity and global mobility.
What is Cross Cultural Training?
The increase in cultural diversity within many countries due to immigration, resettlement and other factors combined with the evolving demands of globalisation have led to an increase in the need for cross cultural training.
Although such training is...
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How to Avoid Cultural Appropriation & Promote Cultural Awareness Instead
Once upon a time cultural appropriation was something theorised and discussed solely at universities.
Now, due to our globalized, interconnected, social media fuelled world, the use (or in this case, misuse) of another’s cultural property can turn in...
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10 Very Cool Facts About South Korean Culture
Discover some of the more unknown aspects of South Korean culture and society!
At Commisceo Global, we know South Korea is hot stuff! ...
Visiting Thailand? Then make sure your travels coincide with the three-day Thai new year celebration, known as ‘Songkran’.
Having travelled extensively across South East Asia, Songkran, was by far, the most beautiful festival that I had the fortune to take part in.
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Did you know that the UAE has some of the strictest laws governing social media?
Despite its reputation as a global commerce and tourism hotspot, the Arab state has strict laws which on occassion take foreigners by surprise.
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The 1st of May will mark the start of a new era in Japanese history.
Emporer Akihito is making way for his eldest son, Crown Prince Naruhito, in Japan’s first imperial abdication in over 200 years.
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Saudi Arabia is on a mission.
Their ambitious 2030 Vision seeks to create an economy for the future based around trade and tourism.
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Travelling to Italy for work? Want to make a good impression? Then this blog is for you.
Here's a quick-fire overview of some key cultural insights that might come in handy.
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Doing business or working in Japan can be tough for foreigners.
The cultural differences for some can be vast and it takes a while to get used to how the Japanese like to do things.
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Providing an abundance of new experiences, relationships and opportunities, relocation can be an incredibly exciting opportunity for most relocating expats.
However, relocation is not all fun and excitement.
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With it being called 'cultural awareness training', 'cultural competence training' or 'cross-cultural training', anyone would think that these types of training courses are all about culture.
Well, you wouldn't be wrong.
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In the face to face training world, establishing measurable objectives is typically considered key to the development of any training course.
However, this process is often overlooked in the development of online courses.
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A survey by the UAE’s security magazine, 999, has shown that most expatriates visiting the UAE are doing so while blind to UAE cultural customs and traditions.
Seven out of ten of the 2,000 expatriates included in the survey claimed to not understand local Emirati culture and traditions.
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We spend most of our time at Commisceo working on serious cultural stuff, such as, how to negotiate successfully with the Americans, or, how to give good service to American customers.
Every so often however, we feel that need to go off at a tangent and indulge in some of the quirkier aspects of culture!
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Many expatriates relocating to Saudi Arabia are usually surprised to find that the date in Saudi Arabia is over 500 years behind that of dates in the West.
As we leave 2018 behind and enter 2019, it’s only 1440 in Saud Arabia.
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Saudi Arabia has become an almost permanent fixture in Western news.
With the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the continued carnage in the Yemen which threatens to spiral into the worst global famine this generation, the spotlight placed on Saudi Arabia has been almost completely negative.
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Love for the royal family is deeply ingrained in Thai culture.
You can’t help but see pictures of the recently deceased King and his newly appointed son wherever you go in Thailand.
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If you’re off to Thailand for business or moving there as an expat, then we have compiled some essential cultural facts to give you an insight into Thai culture before you go.
By understanding the culture, you are best placed to get the most out of your time in Thailand and to make it a memorable experience for all the right reasons.
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The training world is evolving at an incredible pace.
Indeed, discussions of blended learning by L&D professionals have quickly moved beyond ‘why do we need it?’ to ‘how do we do it?’
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The culture of learning and development within most organisations has changed dramatically.
Although online learning programmes are now recognised by the majority of corporate businesses as a great way to train busy and mobile staff, there has traditionally been more resistance to using stand-alone games.
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In a rapidly changing training world, learning trend reviews reference terminology which would have been incomprehensible to learning and development professionals not so long ago.
With terms such as E-Learning, Mobile Learning, Online Learning, Gamification and Virtual Learning, peppering our training conversations, the training culture has changed dramatically.
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If you work in Learning and Development, then it’s likely you know about the 70-20-10 Model.
If not, then it can be simply summarised as the work of three academics in the 80’s who used extensive research to establish optimal learning conditions.
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