In 2013, via Skype (apologies for any audio quality issues!), American businesswoman, Colleen Jolly and I looked - and laughed! - at the assumption we'd each made on our first trip to each other's countries. Colleen was also able to bring another perspective, having worked in Australia as well as the UK. So on this show, we talked about:

Cultural faux pas 101 (that number is now understood to mean the same thing on both sides of the pond - but when she first came here ...?!);

Why you really shouldn't go by the book;

Making a killing down-under - if down-under didn't kill you first!;

falling into the UK's North/South divide; and

Why there was still value in going the distance - even with all the technological options at our disposal.

I believe that's still true.

As I say on the blog, at:

https://www.savvybusinessresolutions.com/blog

This show still makes me laugh 'more than anything else I've ever produced!' I hope you'll get some fun out of it as well - but I hope you'll also find business value in it. On the blog, I look at some ways in which Trans-Atlantic culture gaps have closed - while others remain wide open, waiting for unsuspecting travellers (virtual as well as physical) to tumble in!

In the first series of the current podcast, 'Culture' was 'The Last Word On Conflict Management' (Ep10). There are so many layers and dimensions to this topic - and so many of those are constantly evolving - it's a theme I suspect we'll come back to regularly.

In the meantime, if you need help with any aspect of dispute resolution or conflict management at work (cultural or otherwise), come and talk to me! All my details are at:

https://www.savvybusinessresolutions.com