Cultural Agility

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In episode 124 of the podcast, the topic is: Cultural Agility. Our guest is Paula Caligiuri, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, author of Build Your Cultural Agility: The Nine Competencies of Successful Global Professionals. After listening to the episode, check out:

Paula Caligiuri (@PaulaCaligiuri): https://damore-mckim.northeastern.edu/people/paula-caligiuri/
Build Your Cultural Agility: The Nine Competencies of Successful Global Professionals: https://www.koganpage.com/product/build-your-cultural-agility-9781789666595

In this conversation, they talk about Remote Cultural Agility in a Globalized World during COVID-19. How do you acquire cultural agility? How does it translate to the online world or to the hybrid future of work? There are lessons for both expatriate management, global leadership development, and self-help.

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In this conversation, we talked about how to be culturally agile as we are already living in a hybrid future of work.

Trond's takeaway: my takeaway is that being a successful global professionals is not easy. You have to master self-management including tolerance and resilience, you need to be competent at building relationships and you need to manage cultural adaptation to new realities around you.

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If you like this topic, you may enjoy other episodes of Futurized, such as episode113, Tech in Tomorrow's Learning Organizations, episode 94, Workforce, Humanity, and Future Tech, or episode 66, The Serendipity of Social Innovation. Hopefully, you'll find something awesome in these or other episodes. If so, do let us know by messaging us, we would love to share your thoughts with other listeners.

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Paula Caligiuri

Professor, consultant, and author

Paula Caligiuri is an industrial-organizational psychologist dedicated to helping companies, teams, professionals, and students become effective in today’s complex global environment. She is the D’Amore-McKim School of Business Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University. As a consultant, she is the president of TASCA Global and founder of Skiilify, working extensively with leading organizations and universities on the selection and development of culturally agile students and professionals. Paula holds a BA in Psychology from Canisius College and a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Penn State University.

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