What’s just out of range of view when you are on Zoom? I have carefully staged a corner of my basement into a 4-foot-wide illusion of professional workspace. Some just use virtual backgrounds. A colleague got a new shower curtain and sets up in her bathroom—the only space in her house with 4 walls and…
My son and I were driving through downtown Park Ridge, past the familiar marquis of the Pickwick Theatre, when he said “What the heck!…That’s new.” “English Only Please” was written at the very top. “Is that a new policy?” he pondered? “It’s probably a foreign film,” I said confidently, which a brief Internet search upon…
I met an interesting woman the other day, founder and owner of Workforce Language Services, who has a PhD in Linguistics and Anthropology. We were talking about the ongoing challenge as practitioners to prove the business case for diversity, and she told me about a language training project she had done for a client in…
The term intercultural communications refers to communicating with people across lines of difference. As the word implies that can be cultural difference, such as heritage or ethnicity, but it can also be across lines of ability. I am reminded of this as I help to prepare volunteers for an event I have planned for a…
