Brendan Thomas Quinn

Brendan Thomas Quinn has spent over 25 years helping multicultural organisations get out of their own way. Based in Barcelona, he works with global teams and leaders worldwide on the things that quietly derail collaboration: misaligned expectations, communication breakdowns, and decisions that look rational in one culture and baffling in another. He runs cross-cultural workshops, advises leadership teams, and lectures in Cross-Cultural Communication at an international business school in Barcelona.

Direct Negative Feedback

Direct Negative Feedback – Understanding and Implementing (2 of 5)

Cultural Friction — Newsletter Get this delivered to your inbox Real problems, practical fixes for leaders of international teams. Published weekly. ✓  You’re subscribed. Check your inbox to confirm. Subscribe Free · Weekly · Unsubscribe any time In the first post of our series, we introduced the concept of evaluating and its significance in cross-cultural […]

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Evaluating Across Cultures

Evaluating Across Cultures: Why the Same Feedback Lands Completely Differently

Evaluating Across Cultures: Why the Same Feedback Lands Completely Differently Cultural Friction — Newsletter Get this delivered to your inbox Real problems, practical fixes for leaders of international teams. Published weekly. ✓  You’re subscribed. Check your inbox to confirm. Subscribe Free · Weekly · Unsubscribe any time Cultural Friction  ·  Feedback & Evaluation Evaluating Across

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cross-cultural Communication strategies

Cross-Cultural Communication Skills: A Practical Guide for International Teams

Cross-cultural communication skills help international teams reduce friction, build trust and collaborate more effectively. This practical guide explains the four core skills — recognising difference, naming it, adapting structure, and building shared norms — with cross-cultural training, intercultural workshops, and coaching and mentoring available in Barcelona and worldwide. Cultural Friction — Newsletter Get this delivered

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Cross-cultural communication strategies

Implementing Cross-Cultural Communication Strategies in Organisations (4 of 5)

Cultural Friction — Newsletter Get this delivered to your inbox Real problems, practical fixes for leaders of international teams. Published weekly. ✓  You’re subscribed. Check your inbox to confirm. Subscribe Free · Weekly · Unsubscribe any time This is our fourth post in this series of Low-context and High-context communication. If you want to read

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Low-context and High-context communication

Comparing Low-Context and High-Context Communication (3 of 5)

Cultural Friction — Newsletter Get this delivered to your inbox Real problems, practical fixes for leaders of international teams. Published weekly. ✓  You’re subscribed. Check your inbox to confirm. Subscribe Free · Weekly · Unsubscribe any time This is our third post in this series of Low-context and High-context communication. If you want to read

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High Context Communication: What It Is and Why It Creates Misunderstandings

High context communication creates misunderstandings in international teams because meaning is carried implicitly rather than stated directly. This cross-cultural communication guide explains what high context communication is, how it creates cultural friction, and how intercultural training and cross-cultural workshops can help teams in Barcelona and worldwide work more effectively across cultures. Cultural Friction — Newsletter

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