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 | Apr 12, 2021 | Intercultural Training
I was recently asked why most intercultural training starts with taking a closer look at your own culture. I could see the client just wanted to get straight down to business and learn about how to manage her team in the UK. When people seek out intercultural...
by Paisley Communication | Jan 19, 2021 | Intercultural Training
Once upon a time I started teaching Storytelling in my lectures 20 years ago, back then it was part of the English curriculum at the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Thanks to my colleague Michael Williams who introduced Storytelling to the...
by Paisley Communication | Oct 19, 2019 | Intercultural Training
As stated in Forbes, “those who embrace diversity will be more likely to prosper, and those who ignore it will be more likely to fail”. It’s one of the reasons why posts bidding for diversity inundate our newsfeeds on a daily basis. It’s now one of the defining...
by Paisley Communication | Sep 16, 2019 | Intercultural Training
We are all familiar with the idiom “Great minds think alike.” But do they? Of course having similar ideas to others means that we have more in common and it’s easy to get along with PLU (people like us) because they are of similar mindset. But what is notable about...
