Understanding the need to develop international communicators

31 October 2010

So, a ques­tion which comes up from time to time is, just where are the future inter­na­tional pro­ject com­mu­nic­at­ors com­ing from? where are they devel­op­ing right now? and, how can their devel­op­ment be sup­por­ted and facil­it­ated so that there are enough of them avail­able for future pro­jects? Firstly, as an optim­ist, let me say that […]

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Impostor Syndrome

23 October 2010

The concept of Impostor Syn­drome has been dis­cussed for a while in sev­eral dif­fer­ent con­texts, it is also some­thing some col­leagues and I have talked about from time to time recently and it is a phe­nomenon which can impact on the way many people in both col­loc­ated and vir­tual pro­ject teams are able to function […]

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Why use international teams for projects?

2 October 2010

One ques­tion I have not really touched on in my earlier posts is why company’s and indi­vidu­als would under­take pro­jects using multi national or inter­na­tional teams.  There are a great num­ber of drivers to the approach, some are quite obvi­ous, oth­ers subtle and I will only con­sider a small num­ber of the most com­mon here […]

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Equality in project communications structures and systems

5 September 2010

So, here is a ques­tion for you to pon­der, does your pro­ject and cor­por­ate hier­archy, struc­ture and access to com­mu­nic­a­tions tools and tech­no­logy match your project’s com­mu­nic­a­tion aims and pro­cesses… Many pro­jects make bold claims of being open to input and con­tri­bu­tions from all mem­bers of the pro­ject team no mat­ter how high or low […]

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Comparing communication mediums in cross cultural team communication

15 August 2010

There are a num­ber of dif­fer­ent com­mu­nic­a­tion tech­no­lo­gies avail­able to the mod­ern pro­ject man­ager to inter­face with and coördin­ate their inter­na­tional pro­ject teams, ran­ging from stand­ard email com­mu­nic­a­tions, whether they be one to one or used to broad­cast mes­sages to the entire team, use of the tele­phone, again either for a one on one conversation, […]

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Consistency of message in communicating to your team

14 August 2010

When you are try­ing to main­tain enthu­si­asm and coördin­a­tion in your team, whether they may be a small co-located group or a large vir­tual com­munity, it is crit­ic­ally import­ant to keep your mes­sage con­sist­ent at all levels of deliv­ery and in all meth­ods of deliv­ery. Whether the mes­sage is being form­al­ised in news­let­ters and announcements, […]

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Tips for survival in the deep end of international project communications

18 July 2010

Prob­ably the most com­mon way inter­na­tional pro­jects develop their com­mu­nic­a­tions plans is through the simple trial and error of start­ing a pro­ject with an inter­na­tional, vir­tual team com­pon­ent with no dif­fer­ent com­mu­nic­a­tions plan­ning than would occur in a single coun­try, co loc­ated team meth­od­o­logy. All of this means that those respons­ible for deliv­er­ing the project […]

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Company’s options to support international project communication skills

10 July 2010

There are, it seems to me, three basic ways company’s develop inter­na­tional com­mu­nic­a­tions skills in their employ­ees, all three of which have ana­lo­gies with learn­ing to swim, these basic options are; To throw the employ­ees in at the deep end.  This seems like a pretty bru­tal descrip­tion though to be fair, many employ­ees also choose […]

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Finding the right motivation to succeed in international communications

5 June 2010

I seem to have had a few con­ver­sa­tions with col­leagues recently on the need for per­sonal motiv­a­tion as a driv­ing force to suc­ceed in inter­na­tional com­mu­nic­a­tions. By motiv­a­tion I am refer­ring to the type of psy­cho­lo­gical drivers the indi­vidual needs to have the per­sonal desire and drive to really want to learn and under­stand their […]

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Self awareness as a contributor to successful communications

1 June 2010

In a recent con­ver­sa­tion with a col­league, the topic of self aware­ness in pro­ject per­son­nel in gen­eral and as a major con­trib­utor to the devel­op­ment of suc­cess­ful and effect­ive inter­cul­tural com­mu­nic­at­ors spe­cific­ally came up. Dur­ing the dis­cus­sion I came to real­ise just how effect­ive and indeed essen­tial it is for any­one who wishes to become effective […]

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