Cultural Communication Confidence

This week we're talking about the 4 pillars of global leader communication. This is for you if you are a global manager who is ready to get promoted and wants to speak clearly, confidently and with impact. Levelling up your communication skills is important for influencing your senior stakeholders, creating impact with your communication and enhancing your professional reputation and career opport...

Today we are talking about how to identify your leadership communication challenges and prioritise your development areas for 2024.  I will be guiding you through a series of self-reflection questions, so you can pinpoint where your specific issues are, and start working on them to develop and grow your leadership communication skills.  Listen to the 8 questions and rate yourself on a scale of 1 t...

Leadership presence - do you have it? Maybe you are like many people I meet who have all the skills, experience and talent, and are ambitious to progress their career for the next promotion or job move, to break into the c-suite or the next level of management.  But something is missing in the way you show up, connect and engage with other people, which is hard to define.  This is leadership prese...

Happy New Year! Hope you had a great time over the holiday season, and started the year well. As we kick off this January with new topic episodes, we're focusing on the big ideas for 2024 for you to focus on in communication and cultural intelligence. This is for you if you are a leader or manager of a global team, or part of a multicultural team, and we're looking at the key trends and areas for...

Kathryn Read is an international sales and marketing consultant with over 25 years' experience developing niche products in emerging markets. She helps small and medium companies to break through international barriers, creating successful entrepreneurs and a thriving global marketplace.  Kathryn firmly believes that business is done between people, and places her focus on building strong relation...

Thank you. It's a real joy to create and share my podcast episodes here, but it is also important to me that I'm not only speaking into a mic to myself, I am also building conversations and connections with you all over the world, sparking new ideas and behaviours which impact people in places that I don't even know about. What always amazes me is how global this show is. We have had over 5000 dow...

Vanessa Paisley, trainer and lecturer in the field of intercultural communication and English as a global language, was born in Tanzania, grew up in the UK, lived and worked in Austria for 23 years, and repatriated to the UK 9 years ago.  In her work she helps people to meet the challenges of living and working across cultures, both in relocating individuals from one country to another (especially...

7 tips for a successful informational interview. In this fourth and final episode of my new mini podcast series about strategies to optimise your communication for job searching, we are exploring how to maximise the time you have available to talk with a connection who has agreed to help you on your job search.  You may have only 15-20 minutes, so how you approach the conversation matters, includi...

Career outreach: crafting compelling cold messages. In this third episode of my new podcast mini series about strategies to optimise your communication for job searching, we discuss how to send messages to connect and meet people who can help you with your job hunt.  Some of you may feel uncomfortable sending cold and outreach messages to people you don't know, and feel like you come across as ver...

First impressions in networking: the power of impactful introductions. In this second episode of my new podcast mini series about strategies to optimise your communication for job searching, we are talking about how to answer that deceptively simple question, 'What do you do?'.  We start with exploring how you want to show up at networking events to maximise connections that can help your job sear...

Make your CV/ resume stand out. Following on from our recent podcast mini series on interview success, I have received questions about other aspects of job searching and applications. So in this new mini series I am going to be sharing more strategies on optimising your communication for other job related themes, including strategies for CV/ resume success, how to introduce yourself impactfully at...

Corina Goetz is our guest today on Cultural Communication Confidence. She is the Founder of Star-CaT, a Middle East Strategist and Cultural Expert for the Gulf. Corina helps Westerners further their cultural understanding, and create better relationships in the region and therefore grow and expand their businesses. Corina and I had a fascinating conversation, where we explored stereotypes in the G...

Today's guest is Katie Keith, Executive Director with Global Chamber London and also Head of B2B Partnerships with Currencies Direct. She talks about creating space for effective communication in global teams, including how to build psychological safety in teams, we explore authentic global leadership, and how listening skills are critical in conversations and even in emails, to read between the l...

Today we are starting a new era on this podcast as we start hosting guests to share with you a range of perspectives on successful communication, developing confidence and cross-cultural working from leading experts in the business world. Our first guest is Febronia Ruocco, Strategic Insights Professional & Executive Coach, who talks about encouraging multilingual and multicultural teams to thrive...

First impressions are critical in interviews, and so are last impressions at the end of the interview. How are you closing your interviews impactfully?  In this competitive global job market, many people are currently asking me questions about preparing for interview success with global companies, and that's why I have created this mini series of 3 episodes focusing on what to do before, during an...

33% of hiring managers claim to know whether or not they would hire a candidate within 30 seconds of meeting them, and 4 in 10 employers would reject a candidate if they showed no enthusiasm, according to research in the UK from StandOut CV.  Wherever you are looking for a new role, in this competitive job market many people are currently asking me questions about preparing for interview success w...

Employers will interview an average of 6 candidates for every job vacancy they advertise and 93% of candidates admit to experiencing job interview anxiety at some point in their career, according to recent research in the UK from StandOut CV.  Wherever you are looking for a new role, in this competitive job market many people are currently asking me questions about preparing for interview success...

Conflict happens. It's something we all experience at some point when working in teams, even if generally we have great relationships with our colleagues, co-workers, customers or partners. Conflict can cause short-term issues with collaboration, such as getting projects agreed and progressing forward. However, it clearly can impact the ongoing relationship, leading to long-term trust issues and n...

I am excited to share that today's show marks the 1st birthday of my podcast, which launched in September 2022. This podcast is part of my vision to help 100,000 leaders and teams around the world to speak up confidently, and support teams to connect and grow globally in 100 countries. In today's episode I share my own communication learnings from launching a podcast and along the journey of the l...

Your communication skills in English are a key enabler for your next promotion. They are part of your skills toolkit, so you have everything on your side, ready to make that next job move, to go for that promotion, or to expand your role. Sometimes they are known as soft skills, but they are anything but soft. They are the difference between influencing successfully and the board rejecting your pr...

Are you talented and ambitious, but it doesn't always come across when you're working in English? Do you feel frustrated by your professional English communication skills, and wish you sounded more confident? Today I want to talk about the 8 most common myths I commonly hear from the people I work with about their English communication and how it's holding them back. This could be impacting you to...

What was your a-ha moment…  ….when you listened to last week's episode about cultural values?  Did you recognise that some of the challenges you might be experiencing with colleagues, co-workers, customers or partners are culturally-driven? What shifted in your perspective?  It can be so easy to divide into 'them' and 'us' within a team, or with customers and partners, especially when what they sa...

What happens when you find yourself in a situation where a team member is being 'difficult'?  What happens when people say things in meetings which leave you frustrated and wound up, because they're acting 'unprofessionally'? Do you roll your eyes, moan to your colleagues and blame it on 'them being them'? It can be so easy to divide into 'them' and 'us' within a team, or with customers and partne...

And now for the final one in the summer re-release season: What makes a good global leader? In this special re-release episode from April this year, I explored different leadership approaches, and how cultural values impact a team's view of good leadership, plus the cultural intelligence strategies you can use to be more effective. Enjoy listening and learning! https://culturecuppa.com/podcasts/wh...

Week 3 of the summer re-release season: Giving & receiving feedback- a very popular topic from June this year. In this episode, I explored the purpose of feedback, how to set up the conversation, adapting your feedback approach with cultural intelligence, and best ways to approach receiving feedback to make sure feedback really lands with you. Enjoy listening and learning! https://culturecuppa.com...