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Establishing the Real Human Connection
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Finally, we gave each other real hugs! (I’m based in Hong Kong. #Hello 🫢) To kick off Q1 of 2023, I flew to #ChiangMai in January. I finally met #JohnHo of #Alt_ChiangMai in the flesh! Though we have regular Zoom calls over the last 2 years for our project #TheRemoteTrends, these can never replace the best brainstorming setting – chit chatting  physically over drinks and…

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Documentary Sharing – 12 Jan 2023
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“What is the most important right now . . .?” It’s a quote from coach Tan Nguyen in the latest episode of #TheDigitalDiplomat with Anthony Amunátegui Abad. This was the phrase echoing in my head while I was watching The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (2022) on Netflix. 🎬 This documentary is about the phreatic explosion of the Whakaari or White…

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December 2022 Book Recommendation
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – #StephenCovey ❓What’s your favourite quote from this book? 📗I have used this quote many times in my media communication workshops this year. It’s from Stephen Covey, the author of the very famous The 7 Habits of Highly Effective…

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Managing a Crisis
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Many of the world’s greatest achievers, including entrepreneurs, athletes, and artists, could not have reached their level of success without learning how to stay extremely calm under pressure. They have the ability to develop and maintain a particular state of psychological readiness, a mental preparedness they summon on demand. ​​In a world full of instant…

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Highlight#1 from TCP Live#6 – Promoting Diversity by Goodie Okechukwu
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Women comprise a large segment of the available managerial talent across the globe, yet their representation at top-level managerial positions is rather obscure. The leadership prospect for women managers is a critical issue in gender equality for businesses looking to succeed in today’s VUCA world. When the question of how to incentivize companies to promote…

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Highlight#4 from TCP Live#3 – Embracing Vulnerability by Shiela Cancino
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People often associate vulnerability with a fear of being exposed, criticized, or attacked for their flaws and mistakes. But TCP Expert and an experienced confidence coach, Shiela M. Cancino, CPA, DTM, ICF Coach, believes that #vulnerability and #success in cross-cultural relationships go hand in hand. Effective communication is often seen as a challenge in cross-cultural…

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Vodcast#45 – China’s Digital Governance goes Local by Jan Kot
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You are what you read – Understanding a culture by understanding their #media landscape. Information and Communication Technology has become the leading force in promoting governance modernization in #China. It seeks to increase the use of Internet technology as a tool to promote citizen-state interaction and to increase the availability of social services through what…

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Highlight#3 from TCP Live#3 – Building Trust in Cross Cultural Relationships
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​​The choice to grant trust is not the same thing as having a default position of trusting people until they prove they can’t be trusted. Choosing to trust someone requires that you mindfully choose to build trust with them, not that you give them a chance to prove they are trustworthy. And to start building…

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Vodcast #44 – Respect Different Accents by Goodie Okechukwu
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Our power of voice – our accent is fundamental to our identity. But in today’s global village, it can also make us more susceptible to quick judgments and stereotypes. Research on the detection of French accents by American listeners uncovered that it takes us less than 30 seconds to linguistically profile a speaker, and make…

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Highlight #3 from TCP Live#5 – How to Lead like a Diplomat?
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Rubbing shoulders with people from different cultures has become more and more frequent for many of us and, as a result, more important. On a day-to-day basis, as we collaborate with different people and get them to move in the same direction to achieve the vision of the organization, those who have mastered the art…

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