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CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE: THE CRITICAL SKILL OF THE FUTURE In an increasingly fluid and diverse world, itâs inevitable that our team-building will involve many ethnicities and nationalities, whom we may well be ill-equipped to deal with effectively - let alone manage. The answer? To adopt better Cultural Intelligence and benefit from the protocols it shows us. To learn more, Middle East Consultant spoke to Emma Jordaan, CEO, Infinite ConsultingâŚ
s a British national living and working overseas, daily I experience interactions with others that feel so different to how we would do things âback homeâ. The longer I live overseas, the less unusual these interactions feel, because I have become accustomed to meconstructionnews.com
different ways of doing things. Remember: the UAE has a population made up of over 200 different nationalities, so itâs highly unlikely that you would be working with a homogenous team, and you could easily interact with over five (or more) different nationals and cultures in a single day. With the rapid rate of globalisation, the world is feeling smaller - now more than ever. Tag on to that the changes caused by geopolitical and financial issues, and we are seeing an increase in global movement of people emigrating or having to flee their home countries. Plus, entrepreneurial nomads who want the option to work February 2024