Family Services
Program Overview | Coaching Programs for Expatriates | Counseling"Among executives who fail overseas, most do so because of the stresses on the family. The most problematic issues are spouse's career, children's education and the family resistance to moving..."
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Career Journal.com
All organizations that relocate their personnel face the financial and human costs of the relocation. At Global Coaches Network, we know the impact of family problems on executive performance. We also know the impact of the demands of the job on the family. We want to support organizational leaders and their families pre assignment, on assignment, and when they are repatriating or moving on to the next assignment. For these reasons we have designed coaching and counseling programs to support the leader, the leader's spouse or significant other, the leader and spouse as a couple, the children, and the family as a whole.
A premature ending to an assignment results in financial losses, and the inability of the organization to gather a wealth of information as they would from a completed assignment after objectives have been achieved. There may also be a high cost of failure for the employee and family. The premature ending of an assignment may be the result of poor performance on the part of the relocated employee.
However, premature endings are often the result of a spouse who has not acclimated to the new environment and wants to go home, pressure on the couple's relationship, the needs of a child or children, or family problems in general. Even if the assignment is not terminated prematurely due to these family issues, the quality of the work of the relocated employee is likely to suffer if there are distractions related to family stress.
Our programs support families through all stages of the relocation process including:
- Pre-assignment: to help families develop realistic expectations for living in a new culture and help the organization to go beyond the usual kinds of qualifying processes
- On site: Supporting spouses and children, the couples relationship, and the family as a whole to use the assignment to develop as they choose.
- Repatriation or next acculturation: to prepare to move on with realistic expectations of what they will experience coming home and when they are in the process of repatriating.
- Coaching for individual family members: leader, spouse, adolescent
- Coaching for the couple, the family team
- Parenting while on International Assignment
- Counseling for the leader, spouse, adolescent
- Counseling for the couple and family
- Counseling for the family
Our family specialists are uniquely qualified and dedicated to providing these programs. Each is a specialist in either coaching or counseling or both. All counselors hold licenses in their state or country. All are experienced with expatriates. Most have been expatriates themselves. Some have grown up as third culture kids.
Meet our family specialists
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 Barbara Schaetti Spouse Coach |
 Janet Botcherby Spouse Coach |
 Tatyana Fertelmeyster Spouse Coach |
 Netta Reichenberg Spouse Coach |
 Anne Ehringhaus Spouse Coach |
 Barrie Zucal Couples & Family Specialist |
