When managing a global team or employees in other countries, recognize that professionalism and communication styles are typically Eurocentric, and frequently set nondominant-group women up for failure if they’re measured against those standards. As a team of Stanford researchers advise in a Fast Company article, “Whenever you feel the urge to correct a behavior or appearance as ‘nonprofessional,’ pause. Ask yourself, ‘Is this ineffective or different?’ and ‘Can I expand my expectations to include this?’ Instead of dismissing what you see, try to understand why you are having the reaction and
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