Fons Trompenaars at Zukunft Personal in Cologne
I have just spent the last two days at the Human Resources Trade Fair Zukunft Personal in Cologne. The event is the largest HR trade fair in all of Europe. During the fair, I spent some time with the people at SKYLIGHT GmbH. As the master trainer for blended learning in their corporate language trainer certificate program, CLTC-C, I fielded questions by prospective certificate candidates about the blended learning module of the three- part course.
http://www.cltc-corporate.de/index.php?id=130&L=0
Without a doubt, the high point of the event for me was actually getting to shake hands and chat with Fons Trompenaars. Anyone who works in the intercultural communications area will be familiar with his work and the enormous contribution he has made to the field of intercultural communications and international business. Fons is an extremely interesting and dynamic presenter whose unconventional take on MBA programs is certainly a breath of fresh air! The presentation, 'Connecting People and Organizations in a Culture of Innovation' was fascinating, and well, a lot of fun to watch!
During the talk he made several - well no, numerious, comments as to how the current White House administration has miserably and consistantly failed in almost every aspect of intercultural exchange. I was very tempted indeed to invite him over to Cologne to help me fill in my absentee election ballot for the upcoming presidential election! Of course that would be illegal and would invalidate my ballot, so I won't take any chances on this one. As an EU national, he is not entitled to vote in the U.S. elections, but I get the distict impression that he, like many Europeans, would just love the opportunity to play a part in bringing about change. I will put my 'x' in the right place, Fons!
http://www.thtconsulting.com/main/index.php
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