Even with all my experience traveling and leading intercultural training, I still come across some situations that surprise me a bit. On my first trip to Ghana I hired a driver to take me from Accra to Kumasi. I met the driver in the morning and before we got underway he said we needed to […]
Living and working in an intercultural world and leading intercultural training means I have the chance to notice differences. One of the things I’ve noticed in traveling between Germany and the US may strike you as odd but I think it helps make a point. When I visit the public WC in a German airport […]
Sometimes we are faced with difficult intercultural challenges at the workplace or in our personal lives. Here is a good example of a common question asked within the intercultural arena: Q: Why do Americans have such short attention spans? When Americans ask questions and I begin to answer with the necessary context they need to […]
