Theresa Sigillito Hollema explains her origins of her work as an interculturalist and her recent focus on building capacity for virtual teamworking.

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0.00 Intro and hello to Theresa Sigillito Hollema

Theresa’s journey into intercultural work

6.08 Dating advice from an interculturalist

How to find a Dutch husband

9.15 Rock star interculturalists

What’s it like to work with one of them?

11.26 Why is virtual collaboration so hard?

Technology, distance, culture and time. The relationship between culture and techn.

15.26 The Caldo model

Why context matters and three ways that culture impacts the virtual team. Th first way: within the team.

18.21 How has tech changed intercultural experience

Drivers of change in cultural competence

19.32 What’s harder: geographic or cultural distance?

Is a colleague outside of driving distance difficult to collaborate with?

21.40 The 2nd way: between the locations

Another way that culture impacts virtual teams and the risk of cliques forming.

24.03 The 3rd way: outside the team

The surrounding culture can have impact in surprising ways and also give the virtual team enormous potential.

28.56 Competences for global virtual teams

Cultural competence, virtual competence and what virtual competence consists of.

33.22 Writers and thinkers

Who is doing interesting research and public engagement bringing together culture and virtual?

37.30 Is virtual collaboration an afterthought?

Are we planning teams for effective collaboration?

43.00 Becoming a virtual collaboration consultant

Creating programmes for virtual teams

51.06 More about the Caldo model

A model for culture + distance

58.47 Theresa’s contribution to the Intercultural Toolbox

A Slack group for you if you are interested in virtual collaboration.

1.00.50 Contacting Theresa

Twitter, linkedin, web

Culture Count

Coming up in conversation were USA, UK, India, Netherlands, Italy, in order of mentions.

https://interculturaltoolbox.org/episodes/virtual-team-outperform-others

Barbara StClaire Ostwald talks about her role in accreditation of coaches and her evolution into new areas of support for people crossing cultures.

0.00 Welcome

What cultural baggage has Barbara St.Claire-Ostwald been carrying?

7.31 IFIs

What is an IFI and what was the entry point of Barbara into the intercultural field?

10.01 Culturenomics

An intercultural coaching business

11.47 Making a website

The biggest challenge of making a website as a solo entrepreneur. Publishing your accreditations on your own website.

17.24 Working for an accreditor

APECS and the journey towards becoming a master accredited coach. The ICF, the EMCC and other coaching associations. Capabilities-based accreditation versus competencies-based accreditation.

27.20 Levels of accreditation

What if you aim too high with your accreditation target?

30.04 Coaching accreditation for interculturalists

What coaching accreditations should interculturalists consider?

31.30 Accreditation as an interculturalist

What is the value of specialist intercultural accreditation?

41.45 Choosing an accreditor

What makes a good accreditation body?

43.35 Future accreditation

What are the trends and will we need accreditation when we can measure impact?

47.07 Barbara’s contribution to the Intercultural Toolbox

A roundabout way of coaching

40.03 Barbara's next move

How will Culturenomics and APECS evolve?

52.25 Contacting Barbara

Email is good!

Culture Count

Coming up in conversation were Poland, USA, UK, South East Asia, Romania, India, Germany and China in order of mentions.

https://interculturaltoolbox.org/episodes/how-much-accreditation-matters

Martha Aynalem explains her origins of her work as an Ethiopia-based interculturalist

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0.00 Welcome

A power cut that caused a new connection

03.47 A journey into intercultural work

An intervention by a friend led to a new direction. A global mindset built in Addis Ababa.

9.32 Keeping local roots as an interculturalist

A consultancy that is built on listening and delivering an anthropologically-based design for successful projects.

14.07 What do Desert Rose interculturalists do?

Organisational development; project design; personal development; training using gamification

17.33 Why do clients need anthropologists

Beware well-intended mistakes caused by lack of local knowledge. How interculturalists can help prevent project failures.

24.00 What kind of training works for illiterate farmers?

Taking training out of the classroom.

31.48 Winning long-term investment from clients

Keeping integrity when targeting real impact sometimes means going further than the funding stretches and sometimes politely saying no to clients whose funding cannot achieve their goals.

36.30 Anthropologists and engineers in collaboration

Striving for mutual respect makes working with other professions a good experience for both sides.

41.53 Targetting impact

Measuring impact by collecting stories.

43.58 Sources of creativity and competence

Where did the Desert Rose approach come from and how could other interculturalists follow the Desert Rose lead?

52.50 Martha Aynalem’s contribution to the intercultural toolbox

Making the work of an interculturalist a truly rich one.

54.28 Expansion

Taking this work into new regions of Africa and building the company’s coaching offering.

55.59 Contacting Martha

Linkedin and Desert Rose Consulting’s website are the best channels for reaching out

Culture Count

Coming up in conversation was: Ethiopia - many times!

https://interculturaltoolbox.org/episodes/interculturalist-designing-engineering-projects