Press Releases
Riversdown House Tennis & Golf Tournaments
Our annual tournaments for alumni of Riversdown House will be held on the following days this year:
• Golf Tournament: Friday 25 July 2008
• Tennis Tournament (Singles): Saturday 26 July 2008
• Tennis Tournament (Doubles): Sunday 27 July 2008
If you would like to play in any of the tournaments, please get in touch with David Lewis by email david.lewis@rlcglobal.com
08/05/2008
Nestlé and Azerbaijan
Michael Gates has today written an article in the Richard Lewis Communications blog about Nestlé's unfortunate cross-cultural incident in Azerbaijan, recently reported by the BBC. Click here to read the article
06/05/2008
Richard Lewis Communications introduces Coaching to its Product Portfolio
We now offer a full range of business coaching services to our clients. We see coaching as an extension of the work we already do with advanced communication skills. The focus is entirely on the organisation and how, through coaching support, performance can be improved and sustained. Our key words with coaching are “recruit, retain, perform, sustain”. Examples of programmes already delivered include: “Manager as Coach” for a global telecommunications company; carrying out a “Dream Team” survey and then making way-forward recommendations for a global pharmaceutical company; individual cultural and local business awareness coaching for a retail manager moving to a new culture; and personal coaching for an executive changing roles from area manager to national operations manager. For more information, please contact john.priestley@rlcglobal.com.
30/04/2008
The Decline and Fall of the Pax Americana
Read Richard D. Lewis' latest blog about the fate of the USA. Will the American Dream come to a rapid end in the face of Chinese and Indian competition? Find out whose culture is strongest! Click here to go to the blog.
13/04/2008
The Lewis Model of Cultural Analysis
Are you a trainer who wishes to include cross-culture in your services to clients? Why not take part in the 7th "Train the Trainer" session at Riversdown House on 19-20 May 2008. If you are interested in joining the session, please contact Jacques Meon, Head of Licensed Partner Programmes, at partners@crossculture.com.
12/04/2008
President Nicolas Sarkozy's State Visit to England
President Sarkozy is finding it hard to stay out of the news these days and his recent visit to England was no exception. But who was cross-culturally more adept? The President himself or his glamorous wife, Carla Bruni? Read Jacques Meon's blog to find out more.
02/04/2008
Blog
Today we launched our blog at blog.crossculture.com. Our cross-cultural consultants, headed by Richard D. Lewis, will post thoughts and observations on current affairs and everyday events. You can automatically receive an email every time a new post is made by clicking on the link "Subscribe to Cross-Culture by Email" on the main blog page.
17/03/2008
Vestas and CultureActive
Richard Lewis Communications recently launched its CultureActive Personal and Cultural Profiling tool at Vestas Wind Systems A/S in Denmark for the use of all staff. With a 28 per cent market share, and 33,500 wind turbines installed, Vestas is the world's leading supplier of wind power solutions. Regarding the cooperation, Susanne Filipsen, Global Mobility Manager at Vestas, says: "As Vestas continues its international growth, it is important for us to get our messages across cultures both externally and internally. We believe that CultureActive will help us to communicate better across cultures for more effective business."
18/02/2008
Licensed Cross-Culture Partners
The 6th "Train the Trainer" session for consultants wishing to incorporate the Lewis Model into their cross-cultural modules took place at Riversdown House on 21-22 February 2008. The training was run by Jacques Meon, Head of Licensed Partner Programmes. If you are interested in joining future sessions, please email us at partners@crossculture.com.
02/02/2008
Cross-Cultural Communication: A Visual Approach
The second, expanded edition of Richard D. Lewis' popular visual guide to cross-culture has just been published. It now contains over 360 diagrams and covers more than 70 cultures. Click here for further details of this and other books by Richard D. Lewis.
15/01/2008
New Business Development Director
John Priestley has joined Richard Lewis Communications as our Business Development Director. He has many years experience:
- Working in multi-national environments, both in the UK and overseas
- Of senior management from ownership of own business to corporate environment
- Training as well as mentoring and coaching, and working with both individuals and organisational teams
- Marketing, sales and value chain communication
- Implementing learning processes from diagnostic to delivery in order to produce grounded solutions relevant to the context of the organisation
Professional activities include:
- Lecturer on Sales and Marketing, Lancaster University School of Management
- MBA student mentor, Lancaster University School of Management
- Positive Coaching Ltd, Director and Founder
- Impact 92, English language: Business Communication, Director & Founder
Contact details:
- Mobile +44 7899 870 483
- Email john.priestley@rlcglobal.com
01/01/2008
The Diplomat
We were featured for the first time in The Diplomat magazine with a general article about culture. The Diplomat is the oldest magazine for diplomats in the world and for the past 60 years has provided essential reading for the diplomatic community in London, covering foreign affairs, interviews with ambassadors and London lifestyle. The article will be followed by a regular "Final Thought" feature on the last page of the magazine, called "The Cultural Commandments" and giving 10 essential rules for understanding and dealing with a different world culture each month.
01/12/2007
Cross-cultural Advice in the Telegraph
Following on from our article about becoming a culturally-competent Expat last August, The Telegraph newspaper has published an article by Richard D. Lewis on "Anglo-Saxons – World’s Worst or Best Linguists?" Telegraph Expat readers get continuous advice on dealing with other cultures through our permanent mini-National Cultural Profile resource at their website.
20/11/2007
Oredev Software Developer Conference
Michael Gates spoke at the Oredev annual conference for software developers in Malmö. Many participants are from the local area, but there are also plenty from abroad, and the speakers are from every corner of the globe. The majority of the conference is technical, but there were also presentations and workshops on future trends of a more general nature, and on the topic of skills development. Michael’s main session was on the importance of global relationship skills for your business, as a software developer. You can read a pre-conference interview with him here, and in the first quarter of 2008 a full video of his session will be posted at the conference site.
13/11/2007
Swedish Lapland Conference
Richard D. Lewis spoke on 25 October 2007 to the Swedish Lapland conference in Northern Sweden. The theme was how to deal with the different cultures who send tourists and people having corporate events to a part of the world that is becoming increasingly of interest as a destination.
25/10/2007
Keeping fit at Riversdown House
If you are coming for intellectual training at Riversdown House, you will have no excuses for not keeping physically fit as well – despite the great meals! We have just opened a new gym comprising treadmill, elliptical cross-trainer, static bike, step machine, rowing machine, multi-gym, weights centre, pilates ball, and more. Don’t forget, also, our superb new astro-turf tennis courts, if you have not yet had chance to try them out.
19/10/2007
Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions
Richard D. Lewis and Jeff Russell of Duke Fuqua Business School, our academic partner in the USA, were published in the popular Troubleshooter column in People Management, the UK-based magazine of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), on the topic of cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
18/10/2007
Speaking at PROCOM
Michael Gates, Group Managing Director, Richard Lewis Communications, was a guest speaker at PROCOM in Oulu. PROCOM is the association of Professional Communicators in Finland. Finnish speakers can find information here.
20/09/2007
"Cultures of the World" Map
Richard Lewis Communications’ long-awaited "Cultures of the World Map" has been officially released. The map is based on the Lewis Model of Culture, and is colour coded to illustrate clearly some key behavioural differences between world cultures, with blue for predominantly linear-active cultures, red for mainly multi-active cultures and yellow for reactive ones. Many cultures are a mixture, and you also get differences within countries. The map has the World on one side, and Europe on the other. If you are interested in ordering a copy, please contact us.
08/09/2007
Nestlé and Azerbaijan
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06/05/2008
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If you would like to try out CultureActive, our Personal Cultural Profiler, click here for a multimedia introduction and the chance to take your own assessment at the end.
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