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Aletheia Consultants 


Who are we? What made us the way we are?

How do we communicate with each other?

 

These questions are at the core of all of our lives, whether in work, leisure or at home.

 

At Aletheia Consultants our goal is to help you and your organisation to understand your identity, your culture and how you communicate.

  

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Recent Events:

Diversity & Culture - Relationships Scotland, Edinburgh, 14th Jan 2012

 

Sense over Sectarianism - St Maurice's High School, Cumbernauld, 12th Jan 2012

 

Diverse by Design - MI Technologies, Get ready for Work programme, Glasgow, 16th Nov 2011

 

Cross-cultural preparation for International Assignments - ICC, Glasgow 17th & 24th October 2011

 

Cutlural Diversity - the untapped potential - CIPD N Scotland & Islands Branch, Aberdeen, 4th October 2011

"really helpful and informative"

 

Bribery and Culture - The Wellbeing at Work Foundation, 21st September 2011

 

Coming up:

Sense Over Sectarianism - Xchange Scotland, St Ninians High School, Giffnock, Glasgow. 20th & 27th Jan

 

To arrange a training event please contact:

ruthforsythe@aletheiaconsultants.org

M. 07824 641212

T. 0141 2587736

 

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03 January

Building Resilience for 2012
At a recent networking event I was asked to share some of my thoughts on Building Resilience based on living for many years in another culture. Moving to another culture and living there for an extended period of time leads to ‘culture shock’ – a sense of bewilderment, insecurity and disillusionment. It has this affect [...]

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28 December

Profile or Performance?
At the recent award for Sports Personality of the Year in the UK there was some controversy raised as there were no women on the final shortlist of 10. The BBC’s programme Women’s Hour discussed the situation and interviewed Claire Spalding, a well-known sports reporter and presenter. She looked at the main newspapers that day [...]

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02 December

What’s in a name?
When we lived in Tanzania it surprised me to hear that some children were called ‘Tabu’ which means ‘distress, misery or difficult conditions’. This was usually because their mother had experienced problems during the birth.  There were other children who were more fortunate, they were called ‘Bahati’ which means ‘luck’. I often wondered how having [...]

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22 November

The Power and Fear of Belonging
The first time I asked for volunteers, two people willingly raised their hands. The next time, not one single person in the group would agree to volunteering. What had happened? I was doing a session on Diversity with 16-18 year olds on a ‘Get ready for Work’ scheme. I wanted to show them the strength of the power [...]

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31 August

Bribery and Culture
On a recent Economist blog – Blighty – about the new Bribery Act which came into effect in the UK in July this year one person commented: “Indeed it is ultimately helpful to eliminate bribes in poorer countries, as their corruption is a major (though not the only) factor in keeping them poor.” Also, in [...]

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