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International
assignments - an expensive and risky proposition:
- Salary and benefits
packages can easily exceed US$500,000
- Failure rates can run from
15-70 percent
- Over 70 percent of failed
assignments result from personal or family difficulties rather than
incompetence on the job
(source The
McKinsey Quarterly--click here to register for
McKinsey and read the article Are
You Taking Your Expat Talent Seriously?)
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Given this environment,
ensuring that your global human capital is well-deployed is a vital
business and risk management strategy.
Global Interface has
a strong track record in protecting our client's investments. Founded in 1991 in Sydney,
Australia, we have provided consulting services and over 600 training
programs on nearly 40 target countries/cultures, for more than 90 clients,
including other intercultural management consultants worldwide.
Through international
alliances we are able to provide training around the world.
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Karen Huchendorf -
Managing Director
Karen has an MA
(Philosophy) and has completed graduate work in organisation behaviour. She
is an interculturalist of long-standing and regularly attends the Summer
Institute for Intercultural Communication, held annually in Oregon, USA,
where she has completed 370 contact hours to date in professional
development programs ranging from "Southeast Asian Patterns of Communication"
to the "Advanced Workshop: Coaching Global Executives". In 1992
she successfully completed the acclaimed "Training to Train"
program in Sydney with master trainer and author Dr Stephanie Burns.
Karen trained as a
facilitator for the Intercultural Communication Workshop at the University
of Minnesota (1978) and since then has delivered countless cultural
training programs in the US and Australia. Over the years she has
successfully completed the following qualifying seminars and utilises these
consulting tools in client programs:
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- Seven Dimensional Model of
Culture Qualifying Seminar (Centre for International Business Studies, The
Netherlands - now Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Intercultural Management
Consulting, June 1995)
- Master Class on Dilemma
Theory and Reconciliation (Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Intercultural
Management Consulting, The Netherlands, March 2001)
- Overseas Assignment
Inventory Certification Workshop (Tucker International, USA, August 1997)
- Intercultural Development
Inventory Qualifying Seminar (The Intercultural Communication Institute, USA,
May 1998)
Karen is a Member of
The Institute of Management Consultants in Australia, the Australian Institute
for Training and Development, and the International Society for
Intercultural Education, Training and Research. She is frequently invited
as a speaker/presenter on cross-cultural issues, as well as being the
author of articles on these topics and the subject of interviews that
periodically are featured in Australian publications.
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