October Edition of Mobility Magazine Online

Hi Everyone, The October edition of the Worldwide ERC® Mobility Magazine is now online and features the following:

Architecture of Strategic Talent Management
By Dean Foster and Lauren Herring, CRP, SGMS

The Global Mobility and Talent Management Partnership Opportunity
By Scott Sullivan

Talent Management Strategy Discussions in Asia
By Christine Wilson

It Never Rains in Seattle
By Ronald Huiskamp, GMS, and Kari Hamilton

Lending Regulatory Changes and the Effect on Transferees and Your Mobility Policy
By Karen Gerba

It All Adds Up - Expatriate Compensation Collection and Considerations for Consistent Program Compliancy
By Chris Pardo, GMS

Israel - Milk, Honey, and Natural Gas
By Tsvi Kan-Tor, Amit Acco, and Adam Greenstein

Rethinking ROI
By Ellie Sullivan, SCRP, SGMS, and Tim McCarney, GMS

The Mobile Workforce: the New Rules of Engagement
By Kathy Sharo

An Overview of Expatriate Housing in China
By Alex Chua, GMS

China Mobility: Understanding the Places, Policies, Practices, and People for Successful Relocation
By Avrom Goldberg and Lorraine Jennings

Effective Virtual Communication and Team Meetings with Your Chinese Customers and Co-workers
By Sheida Hodge

Awakening Giant - India’s Burgeoning Workforce
By Charlene Solomon and Sean Dubberke

Africa: Land of Exhilarating Contrasts
By Gene Edgerton and Nancy Ruth

Uncovering the Universal Qualities of an Effective Manager
By Robert F. Burch, SCRP

Three Steps to Managing Culture Shock
By Margarita Gokun Silver

Strategic Planning—Back to Basics
By Michelle Sandlin, CRP

If you are in the expat, global mobility and/or relocation industries, happy reading! Andrea

Expat Dreams Gone Sour

Hi Everyone, Here is a well-written piece in the UK's Mail Online today about three expat marriages that went sour due to cultural adjustment difficulties, financial woes and the associated relationship stress of moving abroad. (Note This is not an article about infidelity abroad.)

Please click here on the article if you are interested (or if you know someone who might be):

The Expat Dream Killed Our Marriages: Don't Pack Your Bags And Sell Up Until You've Read These Three Salutary Stories

Sending good thoughts and best wishes to Maria-Louse, Sharon and Carol - three British expat women now living alone in France.  Andrea

Expat Women March 2010 Home Page

Hi Everyone, We have just uploaded our Expat Women March home page and encourage you to take a look, tweet it and share it with your friends...

Success Story
Deanne de Vries
VP Africa Strategic Initiatives, Agility (Kuwait)
Deanne De Vries is a career woman, a traveler and an adventurer. Born and raised in San Jose, California to Dutch parents, she has lived in Belgium, the Netherlands, Kenya, South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, Iraq and now Kuwait...
Read more…

Business Idea
Stylemakers
Renée Coppinger
Fashion-lover Renée is a shining example of an expat entrepreneur who is both following her true passion and very successfully reinventing herself, over and over. From electronics, to fashion, to care giving, to study, to art and then back to fashion, she has set up businesses...
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Travel Tips
10 Travel Tips For The Seasoned Traveler
Susanna Zaraysky
If you consider yourself a master at the travel game, but you are still looking for some new ideas to save money and better navigate everything travel, read on to learn from Susanna Zaraysky who has lived in nine countries, traveled to over fifty, speaks seven languages and is the author of Travel Happy, Budget Low...
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Culture Shock: It’s A Good Thing
Ines Hofmann
Cathy was a lawyer in the United States, but when she accompanied her husband to Frankfurt she suffered from culture shock and every small step outside of her apartment seemed to be a great effort. Strange, this might seem to some, given that Cathy had just been working as a competent lawyer in the US...
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Reinventing Yourself
5 Steps To Creating A Better You
Kim Seeling Smith
As expats we are forced to reinvent almost every aspect of our lives when we choose to pick up, pack up and pluck ourselves down in another country. We have to negotiate a new country, a new culture, a new house, start new jobs (or life without a job), enrol our children in new schools...
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Expat Confession
Death Abroad
Expat Women Girlfriend
My friend’s husband collapsed and died suddenly at work this week from a brain tumour. It was terrible. Like any best friend would do, I have been doing my best to console and offer support in her time of need and help as best as I can with her two young children. But I really feel out of my depth: first with grief counselling and now with helping her...
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Thanks
Thank you sincerely for your support and best wishes for March! Andrea