More than a Plane Ticket: Leading a Project Overseas
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More than a Plane Ticket
Leading a Project Overseas
Edan Puritt
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Leading a Project Overseas
Know your ABCs
A. Prepare
B. Listen
C. Do/Participate
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A) What to do before each trip: PREPARE
1. Research the geography, culture and history of the destination.
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What to do before each trip: PREPARE
2. Research the geography, culture and history of Canada.
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What to do before each trip: PREPARE
3. Learn to say and pronounce key terms and greetings.
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B) What to do during your trip: LISTEN
1. There are few cultures as rude as we are.
Listen carefully for clues. Look for pronouns.
Spoiler Alert: Success will elude you until you are part of we and not part of they.
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What to do during your trip: LISTEN
2. There are few cultures as young and immature as ours.
Understand their decision making hierarchy and stay within it.
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What to do during your trip: LISTEN
3. No culture is perfect for everyone.
Listen to everyone but be very careful not to judge.
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C) What to also do during your trip: DOING
1. Engage your hosts as an ambassador for the 35 million Canadians
who will be judged by everything you say and do.
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What to also do during your trip: DOING
2. You will remember everything you do, and only regret what you
don’t.
If the locals do it, or eat it, try it.
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What to also do during your trip: DOING
3. Under promise, over deliver.
ALWAYS provide multiple early drafts of the Executive Summary.
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Leading a Project Overseas
Walk aways? Remember your ABCs:A. Prepare
B. Listen
C. Do/Participate
• Down the road? Landing plane? After? LinkedIn?
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