A little while ago one of our articles published explored the issue of global team project collaboration so this article is sort of a follow-up.
Looking into the Middle-East (Dubai in particular for now) and Africa (Nigeria in particular, for now) has been quite informative and a few lessons have been learnt which is good for business at such an early stage. Most certainly, there are cultural, social, economic and political differences that have been seriously looked into but it has paid off because now our QuiSec-Project's team now have been able to adopt a versatile mindset which has to be changed from time to time depending on which global team we are dealing with. What did we find out?
Our provision at the moment is within the following project management and consulting fields:
However, we have since realised that since 'one cap does not fit all' that things will need to be shifted around due to a variety of things such as political climate (which is key to driving funding and feasibility of projects) and the actual people's needs e.g. in the Middle East Learning and Development has not quite taken off and still a lot of awareness is still being campaigned, so to actually undertake a project that will be feasible within this area would initially for now be best focused on raising its awareness so that teams actually understand what it is all about enough to target business and function on meaningful way. On the other hand, our findings concerning Women & Youth Entrepreneurship projects appear to be 'right up their alley', there is a common cause and need to look into employability amongst both women and youth in the Middle East and most also most specifically for women, the need for them to actually be able to work alongside with their family life, preserving it at all costs. So acquiring and working with a global project team for the latter is very feasible as the vision and mission is something that politically is already being promoted. Also, in Africa, we also found out that although there is an awareness of Career Development, it is at present (but growing) something that people see as a real necessity and within a corporate sector, it is seen as rather a privileged aspect of personal development within corporate careers. However, there is also the controversial aspect of how young it really needs to take place and the need to build such a provision into the educational system rather than being that of an external entity intervention (i.e career fairs set up by private organisations) and the list goes on. Overall, it has been quite an insight that has surely enriched our perspective of engaging global teams within our project work. On a new point though, partnering does come to mind, to be covered on another day another blog. Are you newly going global, acquiring a global team whatever your experiences, we would love to hear from you. You can drop us a line by clicking on 'comments' |
AuthorTabitha O. Abiola is the CEO & Chief Principal Learning & Development Consultant of QuiSec-Projects, a spin-off from QuiSec Consulting. Archives
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