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This week I started my new course in #communication and team dynamics, and I used a fun #activity to illustrate that communication is more than just verbal communication. The students had to draw a house, tree and dog together, while holding one pen, and not being allowed to speak. It's also fun to see the different #perspectives that shine through these #drawings - what does a house or tree look like to you?
Time to introduce my book "Breaking out of the Expat Bubble: How to Make Intercultural Connections and Friends" here on Mastodon! It came out last year and collects twenty years of research on the contact between expats and locals both within and outside of the workplace, for example how to encourage this contact through buddy systems. Check it out here:
https://routledge.pub/Breaking-out-of-the-Expat-Bubble
#books #intercultural #friends #research #buddy #globalmobility #expat #HR
Moving abroad means having to settle into a new host country. This book enables expats and those who support them to create intercultural connections and friendships both within and outside the workplace. Having left behind a large part of their social network, expats need to make local friends to really settle in. This book shows you how this works, and that breaking out of the expat bubble and making local friends helps you adjust and settle in the new place you call home. Organisations and so