TCK Research
TRANSITION STARTS WITH AN ENDING AND FINISHES WITH A BEGINNING. I’ve just started reading William Bridges’ “Managing Transitions” and am struck by how elements of organisational change are similar to the assets gained through a TCK upbringing! This is why I truly believe that Third Culture Kids have a lot to contribute towards a company’s crucial […]
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THIRD CULTURE KIDS: RESILIENCE
THERE’S AN INCREDIBLE RESILIENCE ABOUT THIRD CULTURE KIDs (TCKs). Growing up amid so many different cultures, we are pros at adapting to change. We can navigate through unfamiliar social settings, languages, and customs like it’s our second skin. TCKs have a truly global perspective, shaped by our exposure to multiple cultures and traditions throughout our […]
THIRD CULTURE KIDS: IMPACT IN THE WORKPLACE
QUALITIES OF THIRD CULTURE KIDs Let’s talk about the awesome qualities that Third Culture Kids (TCKs) bring to the workplace. TCKs are special! We have some marketable gifts and we are sitting on a gold mine! 1. Highly adaptive2. Strong team players & natural leaders3. Embrace change4. Built-in global mindedness5. Empathetic & communicative6. Internationally mobile7. […]
TCKs AS GLOBAL LEADERS
GLOBALIZATION IS IN THEIR DNA “For TCKs, cosmopolitanism is not a mere philosophical or political value that they should admire or aspire to but rather their way of being.” They have, “what many multinational companies seek: innate intercultural instincts, mobility and adaptability.” I have focused my area of study on the Third Culture Kid experience […]
BEING A TCK: EMBRACE YOUR UNIQUE UPBRINGING
WELCOME HOME I say this because it took 37 years for me to understand where I truly belong. Belonging is a fundamental basic human need; we all want to feel accepted and supported by our peers, a tribe, a community. Everybody needs roots somewhere (or so many often say) and yet, for over 200 million […]