Expatriate Coaching
Coaching is the practice of supporting an individual through the process of achieving a specific professional or personal result. Every expatriate will benefit from Expatriate Coaching. I know from personal experience and from years of working with expatriates that the assignment will be much more likely to succeed if the assignee, and partner if there is one, is given two things; training in the cultural values of the new country and assistance with making their new country their new home. Without this support, no expat assignment will fulfill its potential and is much more likely to terminate early.
Whether the individuals involved are
- Australians leaving to become expats somewhere else
- People from 'somewhere else' arriving in Australia as expats themselves
- 'Re-Pats' returning home
they will all benefit from the intelligence, the suppport and the strategies that successful expatriate coaching will provide them with.
Cross-cultural Consulting
Nearly all clients seeking cross-cultural support are wanting to improve the communication between people of different cultural backgrounds. There are many different reasons for this; perhaps it is following an aquisition or merger, the establishment of a joint venture, the engagement of new employees or the appointment of a new CEO from another country. It may also be prior to a pitch situation, or to an important engagement hosted by a foreign national or the first meeting with an overseas client.
In all these situations, communications is often hampered and in many cases utterly thwarted by people not just failing to understand someone else's way of doing things, but often being unaware that there
is another way. Or, if they are aware, then they fall back on their own value set and tend to judge as 'right or wrong' rather than just 'different'.
In the words of Gough Whitlam, "It's time" that more businesses recognised the opportunities that cultural diversity can offer, so we also offer professional development workshops around becoming more culturally intelligent and and learning how to use cultural diversity as a tool rather than seeing it as an obstacle.
Originally from England, I now live in Melbourne but have moved multiple times, and lived and worked in six different countries over the last 40+ years. I know first hand how hard it is to arrive in a strange country and have to start building a new life for yourself and I would have loved the support of an expatriate coach to make my settlement process a lot easier. As a result of my experiences I now offer a combination of practical and emotional support to help your employees and their families to not just survive the ride, but actually to enjoy it.
(see
Expatriate Coaching)
My personal experiences, my studies in this area and my on-going professional development have equipped me with some great tools which I know can work for you too and I also have the advantage of working with clients from different countries nearly every week and every client I work with teaches me something new. Please go to
Consulting and
Nutshells to learn more.
