By Angela Weinberger, Global Mobility Yoda When discussing psychological safety in Global Mobility, we often focus on teams, leadership, or corporate culture. But what about the globally mobile workforce? Assignees, remote professionals, and digital nomads are frequently dropped into high-pressure environments without the psychological safety net they need to thrive. As someone who has coached hundreds of expats and designed mobility programs for years, I’ve seen firsthand how policy blind spots can lead to failure, burnout, and even trauma. Let’s examine how Global Mobility Managers can utilize policy and process to promote psychological safety, not just in theory, but in practice. We also have to remember that many teams are now Global Virtual Teams. You can refer to our article on exercises for psychological […]

Jamais Cascio, the author who coined “BANI world” wrote “[a] sizable share of those of us who work in the field of imagining the future often struggle with […] a difficulty in seeing our world in anything other than an apocalyptic frame. It’s not because we want it this way, but because other framings seem inadequate or false. The danger of this urge is that it can easily become a trigger for surrender, a slipstream into despair. Through all this, we believe that we can do something to improve the situation, at least our own, if not the whole wide world’s situation.” According to Cascio, “For each problematic aspect of our BANI world, there may not be so much a […]