Tag Archive for: Geert Hofstede

Impression of atmosphere of FoH Conference

Conference Friends of Hofstede

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Cultural experts from across the Globe gathered to exchange knowledge and experience under the umbrella of the Friends of Hofstede.
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…

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…

Yesss! Our book is out!

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And there it is! It's wonderful to finally have our book in my hands: "Cultural Confluence in Organizational Change: a Portuguese venture in Angola" by Vasco Silva and myself, about doing business in Africa. For more information see the tab…
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!

Culture training at my old place

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De Vonk Advies gave a beautiful training for the development organization. This organization was once the employer of Alette Vonk for 10 good years on the African continent, working in Ghana and in Benin. It was great to be back at the old…

Writing in Portugal

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A week of writing in Portugal, focusing on the Angola book. Reading, reflecting and writing, with some walks along the robust shore in between. In Portugal I had a chance to discuss it further with partner in crime Vasco Silva and also enjoyed…
The two trainers Divya Varkey and Alette Vonk smiling on the bunker island of Ijmuiden.

NGO Culture Training

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De Vonk Advies did a good training with Cultural Insights colleague Divya Susan Varkey for an ecological NGO. Good insights, happy client and a wonderful location in Fort Island in IJmuiden.

Negotiation in Kenya

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This article was originally published on the CUBE IN platform of the van de EU, meant for SME's in emerging markets Why should I read this document?  Negotiating in a foreign country (and possibly a foreign language) is always a big challenge: …

Online intercultural proces Ghana

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In the second part of 2020 we facilitated an online Intercultural proces for a brand new Management Team in Ghana. In 2017, the parent company of Koudijs, the Dutch Royal De Heus, decided to develop a local production facility to meet the growing…