"I've just taken a new international job and I am struggling to get to grips with the different cultures of people and work practices. My organisation just expects me to get on with it and immediately be as productive as I was in my last job."
Benefit from working in a practical way to gain clarity of purpose in a new or changed role and improve cross-cultural communications whilst focusing on, and adapting to, different approaches to people and work. We help you to do the right and most productive things over the critical first 100 days of a new role whilst making sure that there is a stable platform for future, longer-term strategies. You will be working with someone who has experience of this and has actually worked, in business roles, in and across different countries and cultures.
Includes
- developing behavioural flexibility,
- asking the right questions,
- picking up on cultural clues,
- understanding what is a priority to enable the individual to become effective,
- being adaptable and flexible enough to learn how to be successful in a different culture.
Programme delivery is designed to start on a face-to-face basis in your home country and then develop through phone and on-line media as the relationship develops and you move into your new environment. Outcomes include:
- Preparation for overseas assignments and reintegration
- Enhanced functionality from Day 1
- Quick integration and understanding of new culture
- Effective cross-cultural communication
- Productive international teams
- Minimised family worries
- Easing re-entry to home country and organisation.
It is estimated that 80% of executives who are sent overseas on long-term assignment by a company leave that company within 2 years of returning to their home country. This proves enormously costly to both the executives and the companies concerned. We provide a core, structured programme to support executives and their families coming home from assignments.
Assessment tools used in the coaching can include The Cultural Orientations Indicator, The Cultural Orientations Model, EAGLE (Executive Assessment Global Leadership Excellence), PRISM (a behavioural profiling tool).
