My trip to Dublin is something that I will not soon forget. I went into Ireland not ever really working in the professional world, much less thinking about any kind of leadership role. I was new to the professional tone people communicate with at work, new to understanding some of the Irish accent, and new…

In Ireland, at least from the experiences I have garnered, I feel as though success in work can be defined in several different ways. Obviously, if we hit goals, that is one clear way to define success. The goals for my company could be getting more matches, having more elderly homeowners sign up on our…

In the scope of leadership, I would say that working as an intern develops leadership skills in ways that are not entirely obvious from an outside perspective. To be completely honest, I was expecting to mostly only do grunt work that someone tells me when and how to do. My growth, however, came from learning…

All of the miscommunications between me and my coworkers in Ireland have been extremely minor. In fact, they were so small that I would hesitate to even call them miscommunications at all. They felt more like brief moments of confusion that passed as quickly as they came. For example, with my boss, one of us…

I think the “soft” skills I am developing most here in Dublin have to do with behavior in the workplace and work-related communication. To be completely honest, my communications in regard to work when I first came here were crude and blunt. My diction, along with my delivery, was often missing a professional tone that…

Really tying back into the last blog post, the communication difference in the workplace is probably the hardest thing I’ve had to get used to here in Ireland. It’s not just about the accents or the terminology—although those can throw you off too—but more about how direction and expectations are delivered (or not delivered). It…

When working on Elder Home Share, a website owned by my boss, I’ve quickly learned that navigating workplace dynamics, especially in a new country, requires a balance of initiative, adaptability, and communication. My boss doesn’t have a strong background in website optimization or web design principles, so most of our conversations revolve around the end…

Throughout my first two weeks working for Elder Home Share, I have picked up on some useful strategies for performing tasks without needing direct instruction. This has been a key learning experience for me, as it quickly became clear that I can’t constantly be asking my boss for permission to make every small change to…