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10/04/2024

09/26/2024

Struggling to choose the right intercultural competency tool?

Join us on October 9th, where we'll provide you with essential insights and practical criteria to make informed decisions.

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04/24/2024

Get ready to lead without limits! 🌟 Join Prof. Allan Bird in our FREE webinar on global leadership development. Dive into cross-cultural competencies, innovative pedagogies & more. Don't miss out!

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04/18/2024

🌐 Are you poised to lead in the global arena? 🌟

Join us for a transformative webinar with the renowned Professor Allan Bird of The Kozai Group, as he unravels the complexities of global leadership development.

With over 30 years of expertise, Prof. Bird will offer invaluable insights into the competencies essential for thriving in diverse cultural contexts. This is an unmissable event for professionals and educators dedicated to fostering leadership that knows no borders.

📅 Save your spot now and get ready to: ✅ Master globally inclusive leadership skills ✅ Learn from cross-cultural management frameworks ✅ Embrace innovative teaching methods for leadership excellence

01/31/2024

When you get the call to work in a foreign country, you need to consider more than just the job opportunity and your own ability to manage the transition. If you have a family, the transition will be that much tougher. There are many variables involved when deciding how to help the family adapt. Read about some questions to consider before moving abroad: https://buff.ly/46aUG34

When you get the call to work in a foreign country, you need to consider more than just the job opportunity and your own ability to manage the transition (which can be very challenging without any other issues involved). If you have a family, the transition will be that much tougher. There are many....

01/24/2024

As part of American Field Studies (AFS) 2023 International Education Week, three experts in the field of international education, including Chris Cartwright, MPA, Ed.D. (consultant and instructor at the Kozai Group), led a panel discussion on intercultural assessment tools used most frequently in study away, virtual exchange, and classroom settings. Learn more and access the panel discussion here: https://buff.ly/424mp3Q

As part of American Field Studies (AFS) 2023 International Education Week, three experts in the field of international education led a panel discussion on intercultural assessment tools used most frequently in study away, virtual exchange, and classroom settings.  In case you missed the live event,...

01/17/2024

Exceptional people in our context are the best learners for several reasons. We’ll talk about one of the reasons, being slow to judge, in this blog as well as finding ways to bridge differences in order to get along and work well together. Read more here: https://buff.ly/45X399S

Exceptional people in our context are the best learners for several reasons.  We’ll talk about one of them in this post: being slow to judge. This context is one where those around us represent different beliefs, values, customs, and perspectives. Our objective is to find a way to bridge those di...

01/10/2024

Dr Mark Mendenhall, a partner of the Kozai Group, takes a moment to talk about the changing role of the business manager on the international stage and what leadership means in an era of increasing globalization. Read the blog to learn more about intercultural competencies and global leadership effectiveness: https://buff.ly/3Jsrrzg

This article was originally published on Emerald Group Publishing, you can find it here. Dr Mark Mendenhall takes a moment to talk about the changing role of the business manager on the international stage and what leadership means in an era of increasing globalization. You are a partner of the Koza...

01/03/2024

How well is your organization developing global competency expectations? The deficit in fully educating business people on how to be globally competent resulted in the development of Kozai Group’s Global Competency Index (GCI). Learn how the GCI can better prepare your global leaders to be successful here: https://buff.ly/3GPGyRr

Enhancing Personal Growth through Global Competency by Kozai Group | Nov 8, 2023 | GCI The Lack of Global Competency Current thoughts in the field of global leadership generally hold that cross-cultural competencies are fundamental to the effective deployment of higher-order competencies in global b...

12/27/2023

How weird can you be in a major corporation and still keep your job? Kathleen McDonald, a former organization development team leader who was responsible for a project on managing diversity at Exxon, devised an eccentricity model to help employees answer that very question. According to McDonald, the employees’ goal is to balance their perceived competence with their perceived eccentricity. Read on to find out more about how to obtain this balance: https://buff.ly/3J6ZD2Z

How weird can you be in a major corporation and still keep your job? Kathleen McDonald, a former organization development team leader who was responsible for a project on managing diversity at Exxon, devised an eccentricity model to help employees answer that very question.  According to McDonald, ...

12/19/2023

Read the blog and learn how to unlock the potential of global leadership as Dr. Allan Bird and Dr. Mark Mendenhall explore strategies to bridge the gap such as:

✅ Identifying and Developing Global Leadership Talent
✅ Cultivating Global Leadership Talent
✅ Using Personal Development Plans to Increase Competencies

Read the blog here: https://buff.ly/3v7FbLm

12/14/2023

Chris Cartwright, MPA, Ed.D.(Consultant at Kozai Group), attended a recent webinar from The Forum on Education Abroad and was pleased to learn that the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale assessment (IES) had been employed! Watch the video on demand to learn about the details of how this important tool was used as part of an effort to design a program that aligns the discipline of Family Science with Peace Corps competencies for intercultural fieldwork:

This is "Aligning Disciplinary & Peace Corps Competencies - A Moroccan Learning Partnership 2023-11-30" by The Forum on Education Abroad on Vimeo,…