Expat Coaching Team & Interdependency

The Culture Challenge

The cultural distance experienced by many expats in the regional hubs of Asia Pacific is much larger than anticipated. This creates some unexpected points of tension that limit performance and effectiveness across their tenure. This can be significantly reduced through integrated third level cultural coaching programs. 1 st level – What to do – Cultural…

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Change & Agility

Can We Really Change?

Lets be really honest – a fundamental shift in behavior is still quite rare. There seems a naive perspective that changing behavior can happen through an instruction, or an insight, or a 1 day training course.  And not surprisingly, this perspective often come from people who don’t change themselves but expect others to change. And…

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Change & Agility

Adversity & Change

In a recent conversation with a leading psychologist she commented that she had met a number of people that had demonstrated a real serenity. A genuine inner calm. They all had very different cultures and backgrounds, but they did have one thing in common – they had experienced a significant hardship in their life. Some…

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Praesta Insights

The Age of Agility

Agility And Why It Matters When we at Praesta reviewed our work, we were struck by the way clients were trying to deal with economic and geo-political uncertainty. Rarely in our working lives have macro economic outlooks seemed so hard to predict. Many organisations had used the recession to good effect. They had revisited strategies,…

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