Welcome to Week Three
Lesson Three
Assignments and questions related to this week's video:
This week you are going to watch the video by Dr. Lionel Laroche. Have you ever heard this name? Please, read about him
below.
Lionel received his education in France and the United States and started his career in
Canada as an engineer. He worked with technical professionals from all over the world and
in Germany and Italy on expatriate assignments. The cultural adaptation process, after
immigrating to Canada and working on international assignments for multinational
companies, taught him so much that he decided to use the knowledge to help professionals from all over the world to achieve
career success and organizations benefit from the opportunities brought by a diverse workforce and the global market.
Over the past fifteen years, Lionel has provided cross-cultural training, coaching and consulting services to over 20,000 people
through a wide range of business, government, academic, professional and non-profit organizations in fourteen countries (Canada,
the U.S., Bermuda, Mexico, Peru, Belgium, Switzerland, France, the UK, Turkey, UAE, Hong Kong, China and Korea).
Lionel is a thought provoking and educational speaker / facilitator who presented at over 200 conferences and venues across
Canada and the United States. He is the author of two books examining the impact of cultural differences on business at the
organizational and individual level entitled:
· Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions
· Recruiting, Retaining and Promoting Culturally Diverse Employees
Lionel holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, USA and a "Diplôme d'ingénieur
polytechnicien" from the École Polytechnique de Paris, France.
1. Now you are ready to watch the video. You might want to take notes while watching it in order to record the most
important ideas, thoughts that surprise you, questions that are forming in your mind, and things you agree or disagree
with.
2. On the Discussion Board, summarize the information you learned from the video. Reflect on some of the points Dr.
Lionel Laroche is making that resonate with you the most. Choose three to four points he is making (technical skills vs. soft
skills, criteria for measuring performance on the job, qualities that employers are looking for, necessary steps a job search
involves, networking, common mistakes people make looking for a job, etc.) , and compare how these things would have
been dealt with in your home culture. Read your classmates posts and answer a couple of them.
3. Do not be shy if you have any questions about your classmate's culture. Remember that asking questions in Canadian
Culture is a norm!
Lesson Three
Assignments and questions related to this week's video:
This week you are going to watch the video by Dr. Lionel Laroche. Have you ever heard this name? Please, read about him
below.
Lionel received his education in France and the United States and started his career in
Canada as an engineer. He worked with technical professionals from all over the world and
in Germany and Italy on expatriate assignments. The cultural adaptation process, after
immigrating to Canada and working on international assignments for multinational
companies, taught him so much that he decided to use the knowledge to help professionals from all over the world to achieve
career success and organizations benefit from the opportunities brought by a diverse workforce and the global market.
Over the past fifteen years, Lionel has provided cross-cultural training, coaching and consulting services to over 20,000 people
through a wide range of business, government, academic, professional and non-profit organizations in fourteen countries (Canada,
the U.S., Bermuda, Mexico, Peru, Belgium, Switzerland, France, the UK, Turkey, UAE, Hong Kong, China and Korea).
Lionel is a thought provoking and educational speaker / facilitator who presented at over 200 conferences and venues across
Canada and the United States. He is the author of two books examining the impact of cultural differences on business at the
organizational and individual level entitled:
· Managing Cultural Diversity in Technical Professions
· Recruiting, Retaining and Promoting Culturally Diverse Employees
Lionel holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, USA and a "Diplôme d'ingénieur
polytechnicien" from the École Polytechnique de Paris, France.
1. Now you are ready to watch the video. You might want to take notes while watching it in order to record the most
important ideas, thoughts that surprise you, questions that are forming in your mind, and things you agree or disagree
with.
2. On the Discussion Board, summarize the information you learned from the video. Reflect on some of the points Dr.
Lionel Laroche is making that resonate with you the most. Choose three to four points he is making (technical skills vs. soft
skills, criteria for measuring performance on the job, qualities that employers are looking for, necessary steps a job search
involves, networking, common mistakes people make looking for a job, etc.) , and compare how these things would have
been dealt with in your home culture. Read your classmates posts and answer a couple of them.
3. Do not be shy if you have any questions about your classmate's culture. Remember that asking questions in Canadian
Culture is a norm!
References
Cloud news. (February 10, 2010). Find a job in Canada - how to make it happen. Dr. Lionel Laroche at IEP, Toronto, Feb. 10, 2010. [Video file]
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhA3zeELPzc
Lionel Laroche. (n.d.). [Photograph]. Retrieved from https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#q=dr.+lionel+laroche
Laroche, L. (n.d.). Biography of MultiCultural Business Solutions Consultants. Retrieved from http://www.mcbsol.com/whyus.html