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Establishing Cohesion in a Multicultural Company
People from different cultural backgrounds have made the United States their home, and our communities’ colorful diversity is reflected in the business world. This can enrich a company and enlighten its outlook, but employees need to be mindful of cultural differences with coworkers in order continue operating efficiently. Through intercultural training, companies can educate employees…
Read MoreDestination Services: Managing Your International Move
Moving your family, your pets, all your belongings, and heading off to another country can be incredibly stressful. Multinational companies sometimes require key personnel to relocate abroad to manage operations in another country. The assignee is faced with the challenging task of preparing to move and setting up living arrangements in a new country, which inevitably…
Read MoreMotivators for Learning a New Language
There are two main ways to categorize peoples’ reasons for deciding to learn a new language; integrative motivators and instrumental motivators. Integrative motivators are a person’s desire to communicate in order to continue building a relationship. In our multi-lingual society, someone may choose to learn another language to better communicate with a coworker of a…
Read MoreThe Role of the Interpreter in Early Intervention
An interpreter’s primary role is to facilitate communications between speakers who use different languages. Interpreters working with Global Arena take on a variety of assignments including: legal proceedings, school meetings, and medical appointments. A specific type of medical appointment that interpreters encounter is called Early Intervention. What is early intervention? Early intervention is a state-run…
Read MoreGlobal Arena’s Training Management System
Global Arena’s Language Training department utilizes the TBM, our proprietary Training Business Manager, to help us better service our clients. TBM plays an integral role in assuring our language training programs are on track, our Project Coordinators are up-to-date, and our clients have 24/7 access to their programs’ information and are conscious of their progression.…
Read MoreHIPAA in a Medical Interpreting Setting
What is HIPAA? HIPAA is The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. HIPAA and PHI Understanding HIPAA is an integral part of working in any medical setting. While HIPAA regulates virtually every aspect of the healthcare experience as a whole in America (health insurance coverage, paid/guaranteed leave, FMLA, etc.), the most relevant part…
Read MoreThe Struggles of Relocating Abroad
Relocating to a foreign country is an arduous task that requires a large amount of research, planning, and organization: from travel arrangements, finding somewhere to live, shipping personal items, and obtaining necessary legal documents. It is easy to get so wrapped up in the logistics of a major move and overlook the impact of the…
Read MoreThe Value of a Translation Well Done
The value of professional translation services is not always easy to calculate. Return on investment is hard to define and should not be measured exclusively on the basis of cost. Translation services are often considered a commodity and it’s easy to think that all translations are made equal and to wonder why you might pay…
Read MoreConnecting Cultures: Building Cultural Competence Among Airport Employees
Global Arena provides highly-specialized intercultural training programs to an international airport in Pennsylvania. The intent of this training was to build a cross-cultural toolset that allowed our client to promote a business environment where each participating employee, independent of their cultural background, felt respected, valued, and contributed up to their inherent potential. This particular program was…
Read MoreConnecting Cultures: An American Company with a Multinational Presence
At Global Arena, we strive in helping our customers to improve their internal communications and interactions across cultures and time zones. In our third installment of Connecting Cultures, we discuss the challenges and actions of an American company at the start of its international expansion. When the American company acquired its German subsidiary, the German…
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