Useful Links

Tempted to escape the British cold snap, thinking of moving abroad?  Or are you looking forward to returning to Britain but don't know where to start?  Here are a couple of articles I recently wrote about global nomads to get you thinking.

10 Things I Wish I'd Known Before Moving Abroad

http://EzineArticles.com/?id=3622261

 

How to Raise Multilingual Children

http://article-niche.com/launch/How-To-Raise-Multilingual-Children.htm

FURTHER RESOURCES:

Publishers/books on living abroad
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/living/resources/publishers.shtml

How to keep your children happy, or how to raise Third Culture Kids
http://www.tckid.com/help.html

 

Assessment tools for intercultural competence

There are many tools available to measure both individual ability to interact cross-culturally, as well as an organisation's culture.  While none of these are completely exhaustive, they serve as useful first steps in a journey of self-awareness, which leads to improved cultural adaptation.

Intercultural Development Inventory
http://www.idiinventory.com/

The Intercultural Competence Assessment project:
http://www.incaproject.org/en_downloads/24_INCA_THE_THEORY_eng_final.pdf


Levels Model for Assessing Culture (organisational/community/arts)http://www.creativexchange.org/chd/levelsmodel

Organizational Culture Inventory testing
http://www.trainersdirect.com/resources/articles/ChangeManagement/OrgCultureInventory.htm

One of the best-known models of national and organisational cultures, Geert Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions
http://www.geert-hofstede.com/



Hofstede's fellow Dutchman and direct rival - a simplified version of FonsTrompenaars' model of cultures
http://changingminds.org/explanations/culture/trompenaars_four_cultures.htm



Articles about Expatriate Challenges


Selection of expatriates for assignments
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NXD/is_2_11/ai_n25104148/?tag=rel.res1

Factors that influence expatriate failure
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5440/is_200709/ai_n21295139/

Challenges of being an expatriate - slideshow based on interviews with expats
http://www.benefitscanada.com/conferences/cbs2005/PDFs/McFarland.pdf

The hidden costs of expat failure 
http://www.thetrailingspouse.com/docs/TheBottomLine.pdf