by Paisley Communication | Oct 20, 2025 | Communication skills, English training, For Companies, Global communication, Intercultural Training, International teams, Language, Team-building
It’s a SORRY story Me: “”Sorry, can I add something here?” German colleague: “You don’t need to be sorry.” Me: “Oh I’m not really sorry.” German colleague: “Well why did you say you are sorry then?” ?? If you’re British, try keeping a tally of...
by Paisley Communication | Aug 2, 2024 | Communication skills, English training, Intercultural Training, International teams, Language, Team-building, Virtual work
It’s not WHAT you say, it’s HOW you say it Effective Communication for Global Teams Do you work in a global team? Do you notice that colleagues do things differently from other cultures? Maybe their communication is very different? Or you feel as if you don’t know...
by Paisley Communication | Jul 18, 2023 | English training, Intercultural Training, International teams, Language, Language and personality, Virtual work
Some language learners say they don’t feel the same when they speak another language. They say they feel underconfident, or that they speak too slowly. Others say their sense of humour, which is a large part of their personality, gets lost in translation. Is this just...
by Paisley Communication | Apr 17, 2023 | English training, Intercultural Training, International teams, Team-building, Virtual work
3 Years of Culture Chat Three years ago, as for many people, my working life changed dramatically. With the onset of a worldwide pandemic, I found myself working alone online and nobody knew how long this would go on for. When I saw The Interchange Institute inviting...
by Paisley Communication | Feb 20, 2023 | Communication skills, English training, Intercultural Training, Language, Team-building
Introduction An international workforce presents a potpourri of opportunities and challenges. Teams are global, often working remotely, and each company has a certain level of company-speak that all employees need to be familiar with. Maintaining clear lines of...
by Paisley Communication | Aug 23, 2022 | Communication skills, Intercultural Training, Team-building, Values
Now you’ve cherry-picked the values, can you bake a cake with them? A while ago I asked my network on LinkedIn and Instagram to name some dimensions of their home cultures that they truly loved and valued. The scope of the sample was people who had worked across...
by Paisley Communication | Feb 3, 2022 | Communication skills, Intercultural Training, Team-building, Values
Part 1 About a year ago I asked around my networks on LinkedIn and Instagram to come up with some dimensions of their home cultures that they truly loved and valued. The scope of the sample was people who had worked across cultures or abroad and a lot of them...
by Paisley Communication | Dec 24, 2021 | Communication skills, English training, Intercultural Training, Language
This year I saved myself a lot of dosh on travel. I did manage to get to the Isle of Wight, the Cotswolds and Ibiza on holiday, and to Austria for work. However, for the most part I was here in Berkhamsted, a small town nestled in the sleepy Chiltern Hills. But thanks...
by Vanessa Paisley | Sep 2, 2021 | Communication skills, English training, Intercultural Training, Language
I was recently coaching a German client on how to communicate across cultures, and we got onto the topic of DIRECT versus INDIRECT communication styles. She told me that she was so shocked about her partner’s direct English that she’d overheard him using on his Zoom...
by Paisley Communication | May 26, 2021 | English training
English is my mother tongue, and I am always amazed how many people around the world study something other than languages, build a career and work in that profession in English at the same time. I would wish that everyone could have the opportunity to carry out their...
