This Cultural Fluency Quiz can be preparation for any cultural fluency, inclusion or diversity training work, or for a strategic planning session. CPS workshop details are below. Six Quick Questions: You work with a Colombian guy and you have heard that he has a very sick cousin. Should you inquire about this, or is it [...]
Can you tell the generation from the writing?
You’re dealing with a client, co-worker, outsource project team member or supplier, and need to guess more about his/her thought style to work more effectively together. You can guess a client’s or remote colleague’s generation from their writing, and give them appropriate service or packaged data. Mature/Traditional: No emoticons. The writer thinks smiley faces are [...]
Retaining valuable “women who don’t ask”
Research shows that even young, highly-educated and assertive women do not ask for what they want, or know how to maneuver their way through systems that penalize them for asking. The cost, to both women and organizations, is high. Research proves that when women do ask for what they want, they do not do so [...]
GenX: Graduates of the CubeWar Training Camps.
These days, Baby Boomer managers often complain about their GenY employees (“kids these days…”) But maybe Boomers should worry less about GenY (described by Marcus Buckingham as the generation who got prizes for coming 8th in a race). Some Boomers still need to learn that you can’t win against GenX if you use the old-fashioned [...]



