Christmas in August! Cultural Approaches to Planning
Trust me, I don’t want to be thinking about Christmas in early August… But I live in the UK and have a young child, so the emails advertising festive shows and visits to Santa have started coming in… In...
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The British and the Monarchy: Reflections
The British relationship with the monarchy is complex and opinions vary greatly from person to person. With King Charles III crowned this weekend, Director of Barton Insights, Katherine Barton, shares her thoughts, as well as ideas for how you...
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The Social Mobility Factory
Status, equality and the class system in the UK often come up in our British Culture Training. Whilst fairness is an important value in British culture, the UK actually has one of the poorest rates of social mobility in...
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British Pub Culture
With approximately 46,800 pubs in the UK, almost 1 in 4 Brits first meeting their husband/wife in a pub and records showing that they have been around for about 2,000 years (first introduced as ‘tabernae’ by the Romans), it’s...
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For The British – Are You Being Understood By International Colleagues?
One for the British working in international teams, as well as for their colleagues of a different nationality. How confident are you that you are being understood? What’s the top topic expatriate executives relocating to the UK raise with...
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Brexit and British Culture – Now and Going Forwards
Brexit. A topic that it’s been hard to ignore over the past few weeks. Social media streams have been bombarded with comments and articles on the subject since the UK voted to leave the European Union in a referendum...
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What? Cut down on drinking?!
The British Reaction to the UK’s latest Alcohol Guidelines Note for my expat readers – this is intended as a humorous, ‘tongue in cheek’ post, although I hope you will still find the cultural observations of value! For those...
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Acquisition International Award Winner 2015
I am delighted to have been voted the UK’s Expatriate Cross-Cultural Coach of the Year for 2015! I am generally so absorbed by my clients and the work at hand that it is lovely to remember that I am...
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What do the British really think of the Royal Family?
On 16 September 2015 the Queen reached a milestone of 65 years on the throne, making her the longest serving monarch in British history. Although many Brits were openly disparaging, many were quietly proud of this achievement. The Queen...
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