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2021: Key Cultural, Religious and Community Events for Your HR Diary

21 December 2020

Wherever you or your clients are based, a knowledge of local cultural, religious and community-focused events can help you to build bridges with your contacts and understand their priorities. When you forge deep and respectful connections, you can conduct future business in a way that may lead to mutually beneficial outcomes. In this article, we scan the key cultural, religious and community-focused events coming up around the world in 2021 so that you can plan ahead with confidence – however the business landscape evolves past the challenges of 2020.

Cultural Calendar 2020: Key Cultural, Religious and Community Events for Your HR Diary

24 November 2020

If you are looking ahead to meeting and travel plans for 2020, it might help to get familiar with some significant cultural events that could influence your overseas schedule. In this article, we scan the key cultural, religious and community-focused events coming up around the world in 2020 so that you can plan ahead with confidence.

July 2020: Staying Safe with Key Dates and Cultural Events this month

30 June 2020

Every month this year, we will be sharing some useful information about the key dates in your HR diary for the month ahead.

This July, we acknowledge how different the usual summer events and celebrations might look this year. We also add some significant dates to the diary for our French and Muslim colleagues around the world.

Language Learning Decline and Global Opportunities for the UK

15 April 2020

Year after year, the uptake of languages in schools fails to reach the levels the UK requires to maximise its international opportunities. In this article, we look at the strategies in development to help turn around the UK’s language-learning fortunes at this time of economic volatility and global change.

Working in Germany: Work Hard, Play Hard and Switch Off!

17 March 2020

Germany is one of the most economically successful countries in the world – and it also happens to have an impressive record on unemployment and productivity. What is more interesting, however, is that it maintains its economic success while encouraging employees to enjoy a healthy work–life balance. In this article we explore why your employees might agree that Germany could be a good spot for European expansion.

Do You Speak Emoji?

20 February 2020

It started with emoticons and eventually graduated to emojis (and now we’re even talking about memojis!) Can we count the way we communicate using emojis as an entire language?