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Perspective-Taking Skills Essential for Workforce Diversity
Posted by Alelo | October 30, 2015

Imagine that you are in charge of promoting diversity within your organization. You promptly start recruiting people with diverse backgrounds, and initially achieve some success. But not long after you...

To Attract and Retain Millennial Talent, Develop Your Perspective-Taking Skills
Posted by Alelo | October 5, 2015

Suppose you have a young employee, Emily, who has been on the job for just a month. She has been working hard on a marketing report, putting in long hours....

Cultural Differences Around the U.S.
Posted by Alelo | September 29, 2015

About twelve years ago, a friend yelled at me for what he saw as constant interruptions. "You never let me finish talking," he said. I was confused. When had I...

Top Five Tips for Working with an Interpreter
Posted by Alelo | April 17, 2015

If you ever have to work with people who don’t speak any of the same languages as you, you will probably have to use an interpreter to make yourself understood....

Rapport and Local Languages (as posted on DLNSEO Culture Ready blog)
Posted by Alelo | February 20, 2015

February 3, 2015 Alelo's Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Ph.D. has posted a blog entry on the Defense Language and National Security Education Office's (DLNSEO) "Culture Ready" web-site. The article discusses the positive...

Show Me You Know Kung Fu
Posted by Alelo | July 28, 2014

As Julie Dirksen notes in her book Design for How People Learn, the goal of good training design is “for learners to emerge from the learning experience with new or...