{"id":1230,"date":"2014-10-20T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2016-10-19T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T09:13:51","slug":"dad-are-you-really-a-spy-some-dos-and-donts-of-working-on-international-assignments-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"Tips for working on international assignments (part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagepub.com\/journalgateway\/pubPolicies.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> quarterly edition of Business Information Review<\/a> is now out, the article I wrote is in it, so I wanted to share some more of my other top 10 tips to make an international assignment a success.\u00a0 In the previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/?p=1163\" target=\"_blank\">blog post <\/a>I listed 3 tips in answer to the questions <em>If I were advising someone about to undertake their first international assignment what would I tell them?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are some more:<\/p>\n<h2>Ten tips (4-6)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Engage multiple stakeholders<\/strong>: one person or department does not make a working relationship, so make sure you have a wide selection of people and that you interact with at least three levels if possible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Communicate, communicate, communicate:<\/strong> I cannot stress strongly enough the need for regular dialogue and face-to-face interactions. Weekly calls are important as are end-of-mission summary sessions and don\u2019t forget the visualization.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"214.11769359000002\" data-angle=\"0\" data-font-name=\"g_font_4\"><strong>If you are working in another language with translators, make sure they understand what you are doing<\/strong>: for a keynote speech in Colombia, I spent an hour in advance with the translator going through my slides and key points \u2013 make them part of the team and acknowledge their contribution*.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* A few years earlier I&#8217;d been asked to give the 2nd day Keynote at the inaugural Russian Intranet Forum. I took the opportunity of an early arrival to go check out the venue and facilities. I arrived just as a Belgian speaker was starting his presentation. The translater Tatiana was given a torrid time by the English speaking members of the audience who suggested her use of the specific business terminology was wrong. Suffice to say no one enjoyed the experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stoli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stoli-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"stoli\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stoli-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stoli-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stoli.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So over a glass of the local tipple Tatiana and I went through my speech and slides.The hour we spent was the most valuable use of time I could have made.\u00a0 She and I became a team, the audience were in far less truculant mood and as a result much more receptive to the messages I was trying to convey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quarterly edition of Business Information Review is now out, the article I wrote is in it, so I wanted to share some more of my other top 10 tips to make an international assignment a success.\u00a0 In the previous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/?p=1230\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[591,593],"tags":[386,407],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-sky-left-field-ideas-pro-bono-activities","category-business-culture-process-issues-operational","tag-business-information-review","tag-sage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeetal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}