Tag Archive for: Culture

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Christmas on Iceland

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Christmas is a blend of Christianity and older traditions. It celebrates both the birth of Jesus and the winter solstice and other rituals; it is about light and darkness. The celebrations are magically intertwined, and thanks to our ancestors,…
Showing the management team

“Wonderful experience”

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After a few online trainings, I finally got the chance to do a face-to-face training with this management team in Ghana. We had covered quite some ground online, yet they all felt the incredible difference with this one. Being in the room,…
Online poster to attract people to the IODA World Café

Adapting OD to culture

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Are your OD methods culturally adaptable? How does culture influence your change management, the processes, interaction, structure and the instruments you use? How can you be more effective in different contexts? We had great conversations…
A yellow microphone with the letters BNR on it

BNR Radio Business in Africa

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Alette did a radio interview on BNR and told the story about her new book 'Cultural Confluence in Organizational Change: a Portuguese venture in Angola.' It was all about doing business in Africa, the so-called 'best practices' and challenges…

Book Launch

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With a smashing presentation in Leiden, Vasco Silva and I launched our book on the 5th April 2024. Creating spaces of confluence. Portuguese guitar music by Filipe Oliveira flowed together with the kora and drums of Moussé Dramé. There were…
Compilation of pictures of a training setting: the trainer Alette, participants around the table and participants presenting their work from flipover.

Training scientists

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This Training Cultural Competence was great fun. It's so rewarding to train scientists. They think deeply, want to know all the details,  and come with the best questions ever. Loved it!

On TV with EditieNL

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Why is the word GRATIS (for free) one of the most googled words in the Netherlands? Alette Vonk had a chance to explain it shortly on Dutch television in the program Editie NL on RTL 4. In comparison to other countries, the people in the Netherlands…

Employees in Kenya

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My article 'Attract, retain and find employees in Kenya' has originally been published on the CUBE IN platform of the EU, for SME's in emerging markets. Important! The 5 most important things to know about managing employees in Kenya are the…

Culture and Corona in Africa

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One single enemy The world is under the spell of the corona virus. As Damiaan Denys, a Dutch psychiatrist and philosopher, wrote in a Dutch daily newspaper: instead of humans fighting each other, this time “the world is threatened by one…

Product development

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In september I had the chance to follow a training of Jana Droessler: product development and marketing. It was organized in one of the best training locations ever: Marbella, South of Spain.