At Victvs, we believe that global business can be a force for good. We believe that by working better together across cultural divides, celebrating differences and embracing challenges, our global family is demonstrating a new approach to working internationally.
Being a member of a team can provide us with incredibly rewarding opportunities for personal and professional growth, but it is not always easy. Differences in personality types, motivations and personal standards, along with a myriad of other hard to pinpoint factors, can all contribute to making the act of contributing to a team effort just that little bit harder than it should be.
Doing business across cultures can be difficult. Language barriers, business etiquette, social hierarchy, gender issues and geo-political factors can all come into play simultaneously – often making what begins as a straightforward business transaction, into a tense exchange that occupies a substantial amount of time and effort.
There was a time – around the late nineties or early 2000’s, when online learning (or e-learning) experienced a fast and surprising evolution. Driven primarily by the requirements of higher education institutions and their need to provide students with information that was accessible all of the time, this period of change saw many pundits questioning the employment prospects for human instructors – who they suggested might be irrelevant in a new education environment…
