Tag Archive for: Intercultural management

Book well received Gaborone
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During the OLDN Conference on OD and Change in Gaborone, Botswana, I presented the book on management in Angola, that I wrote together with Vasco Freitas Silva. The book was very well received and it resulted in a lively discussion with all…

Global Water Management
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De Vonk Advies just finished a series of intercultural workshops for a company that specializes in Water Management throughout the world. I like the way their wall paper reflects their core business! :-)

Creating happy clients
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It was good to do an online Intercultural Management Workshop for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry France-Ghana. Managing Director Armelle Sae-Jeanne was inspired to write the following words on LinkedIn:
“No, I could not complete this…

Sierra Leone: Intercultural Team building
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A full week Intercultural Teambuilding for a development organization in Sierra Leone. Working through disturbed relationships, solving issues and creating understanding. Wonderful work done together with Papa Arkhurst from Ghana.

University exams Intercultural Management
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Grading the exams is always quite a job. Luckily for me, the cat is keeping me company. ;-) The exams are for Intercultural Management, one of the topics of the minor International and Intercultural Management (IIM) of the University of Le…

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.

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…

VIML Congress
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Another year of students completed the Minor International and Intercultural Management! On the 15th of May 2019 the VIML Board of the Leiden Research Group organised the final congress.

Innovation and Culture
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This article was originally published on my LinkedIn page.
Power distance
Every company or organisation needs to innovate to stay relevant, to keep a competitive edge and remain on top of the business. Research shows that creativity and…

The Dutch Team
Blogs and articles, NewsIt’s like herding cats! This article, by Alette Vonk, was originally published in the Xpat Journal (Volume 21 issue #1, Autumn 2018). It is about the Dutch habit of ‘emerging insight’, which can drive people from other countries to despair.
A…


