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Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of other people struggle with geography. Once you've graduated from school and settled into your career, no one starts asking uncomfortable questions like, "What's the capital of Lithuania?", until your kids hit third or fourth grade.
It isn't awfully hard to get rusty.

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Tutoring? Yeah, right! Why waste the money?
Just visit Yahoo! Kids and go to the Yahooligans! Games section. Here, you'll find lots of adult friendly games to take you from being a geography novice to a quick-witted geography genius! With easy graphics, a timer (conveniently there to keep you competing with your best runs), and a three-miss allowance, you'll be sure to remember all of those geography lessons you'd forgotten. Chose from....
*Capital Field Guide (USA): Where you identify states and capitals of the USA
*Where In the World Is?: Match country names to their outlined borders on continental maps (a total of 8)
*World Capitals: For the true hardcore geography buffs.
*US State Detectives: Refresher in North American states and borderlines.

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Overseas Jobs

Not Just a Change of Geography
When you relocate for the purpose of a new job, especially if it's overseas, adapting to your new workplace is an additional challenge you need to prepare for.
It's very easy to start a new job with the expectation and hope that you'll fit in perfectly, be well-respected because your great reputation from your current department will precede you, and that hard work will help you get a promotion within a defined period of time.

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What helped you advance to this point in your career may not work in your new office. In fact, trying to work and behave in the same manner could quickly leave you isolated by your peers, and insulting your management. Here are a few ideas to help you prepare for your overseas work experience:
Don't assume that your current work ethic and style will earn you the same positive reputation you have now
Learn the local language if it's different than your own. Even if you don't speak it fluently, your colleagues and management will have more respect and admiration for you if you make the effort.

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Why Geography Matters For Telesales

Recently the circles in which I've been running have focused on finding and making best use of the "teachable moment" Jan Carlzon of Scandinavian Airlines, SAS, made famous in his book, Moments of Truth.
Essentially, a teachable moment is that intersection of opportunity and candor when someone's "guard" is down because you've treated them with respect and then, in a leadership role, you have the chance to teach a truth of your business, or more rarely, get the joy of watching a junior staffer shine in front of the big brass because of a particular insight or job done well.

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This article deals with phone work, especially getting names right. Many of the call centers run by small firms (still domestic) are staffed by youth not even out of high-school, without any command of the English language, let alone nuances of foreign pronunciations.
Investing Energy in Learning Foreign Names
Italian: Sforza, Sbisa
Spanish: Joaquin
Spanish: Espinoza
Thinking Like a Shipping Agent
There was a product priced the same amount as a FedEx rate, and the order-taker entered a quantity of 1, which was correct, yet then incorrectly overrode the shipping charge (which defaults to UPS, and has to be overridden to force the Pri Overnight). Some folks never get it, and this management team was certainly among those who didn't. If ever there was a time to be open to change and-as an old dog, learn new tricks-that time would be now.
So what's the teachable moment here? THE FIRST is when the member joins the firm and goes through a phone-skills class (How many firms have them? How many firms need them, if one of their primary means of communicating with the public is via telephone?)
AND THE NEXT is via well-placed remarks on the casual management ambit to see what's going on in the trenches. Just like children, staff attitudes are "caught not taught." Graham HainesNote that neither of these concepts will be executed in a company that is totally driven by bean-counters with an obsessive focus on "the bottom line." That's ok as long as it is the real bottom line where we treasure people and exploit tools, never the other way around. It's like my fifth grade geography class where we had to memorize states, capitals and major rivers. Not because our teacher planned on any of us being travel agents, it was just a great ingredient in the stew of life that is part of being "well rounded and well read." If somebody is talking about the Monongahela [River] you can reasonably expect address information from West VA. or Pittsburgh metro area, but not Detroit, Chicago or LA.
Enthusiasm and "being on your toes" sells more product than a script ever will. Judging by the financial sector melt-down of fall 2008, and the ethics-in-government crisis of 2009, it seems like we've got a lot more bright people than those who are "well rounded and well read." It takes less sense than God gave gravel to recognize that the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is speaking the uncommon truth when he remarks:
Who created it? One of the key attributes of the systems thinking mindset is applying this "cultural" knowledge to business settings so more folk can bring the common sense that has brought our world the standard of living we now enjoy, back into more common use.

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Geography Bee

Geography Bees are performed locally school by school, but there are also regional, state, and national competitions. The National Geographic Bee, previously the National Geography Bee, is open to fourth through eighth grade American students. The annual Bee is hosted by Alex Trebek and has students from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and Pacific territories, as well as Department of Defense Dependents Schools.

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School level competitions begin in November. The Bee begins with preliminaries, where competitors are split into groups of twenty. Each is asked one question from 7 categories. Each question is worth 1 point, and the top scorers advance to the second round.
The 10 finalists are cleared of previous points, and are eliminated after two incorrect answers. Once the third place winner is decided, the two semi-finalists go head to head. Before the question is asked, points are cleared once more. Participants have 15 seconds to write down their answers. To qualify for state competition, all school-level winners take a written test. The top 100 qualify for the state bee, which follows the same rules as the local bees. National competitors are the winners from state and territory bees. Other than an increase in preliminary questions from 7 to 9, rules are identical.

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The Geography and Climate of the Caribbean

The variety of the Caribbean region leads to significant land forms and a surprising variety of climatic conditions.
The Caribbean consists primarily of the archipelago of islands from Bermuda and the Bahamas to Trinidad and the Dutch Antilles. In a geo-political sense, the Caribbean also includes Belize, Suriname and French Guyana - countries that are located in Central and South America.
For a region that lacks glaciers, tors and inselbergs, the landscapes of Caribbean countries are enough to whet the appetite of an avid geography enthusiast.

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Volcanoes
As a region whose formation was influenced by volcanic activity, the Caribbean has a number of active volcanoes. Soufriere immediately comes to mind, as it is a name associated with a number of volcanoes in the Caribbean, including Montserrat's notorious Mt. Soufriere. Even Trinidad has active mud volcanoes.
Mountains and Mountain Ranges
Mountain ranges exist, in Cuba, Belize, Hispaniola, Jamaica and even smaller islands like Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and Dominica. Historians state that Trinidad got its name from Columbus' sighting of three hills (Trinity hills). Some other notable mountains and mountain ranges in the Caribbean include the Northern Range (Trinidad), Mount Gimie (St. Lucia), Blue Mountains (Jamaica) and Morne Diablotins (Dominica).
Waterfalls
Most Caribbean countries (small as they are) have multiple waterfalls. Many waterfalls are found in mountainous regions across the Caribbean like Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and several smaller islands like St. Lucia and Grenada- to name a couple.
Rainforest
The existence of exotic flora and fauna is also attributed to the presence of rainforests in the Caribbean.
Swamps
Notable swamps include the Nariva Swamp and Caroni swamp.
Beaches and coral reefs
Beaches are notable not only for the white-sand and multi-coloured water, but the prevalence of the coral reefs on many islands. Coral reefs are major geographical features in the Caribbean. Sand bars also make some of the Caribbean beaches very interesting. Other geographical features of some parts of the Caribbean include deserts, miniature islands, caves, bays and inlets.
Climate
The Caribbean doesn't have four seasons. The Caribbean climate is typically warm and humid, with dry and wet seasons. The dry season spans from January to May, while the wet season spans from June to December.
Some parts of the Caribbean - like Margarita and the Dutch Antilles - experience semi-arid conditions that lead to the formation of deserts. The climate of Trinidad - as the southernmost Caribbean island - is similar to that of Guyana with a very prominent "rainy season" and high humidity.
The rest of the islands experience marginally higher temperatures with seasonal rainfall that is influenced by the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The ITCZ sometimes yields torrential rainfall for days on end in the Caribbean. Beyond Trinidad and Tobago and the Dutch Antilles, the Caribbean islands lie within the hurricane belt. The range of temperatures in the Caribbean is not extreme. The average temperature (night and day) across all of the Caribbean countries is about 28 degrees Celsius. The lowest temperature on average is 22 degrees Celsius (71.6 Fahrenheit). The highest temperature is about 36 degrees Celsius (96.8 degrees Fahrenheit). Naturally, mountainous regions are cooler (because of the higher altitude) and the Windward Islands are cooler than the Leeward Islands.
This is by no means a comprehensive overview of the diversity of the Caribbean region. After all the Caribbean region has many different sub-regions with different climatic and geographical influences.

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