Global Leadership: Coaching Programs
Ensuring Success on the International Assessment
When organizations send leaders on international assignments, they often forget that they are sending “human” beings. These human beings universally experience stress when they arrive to live and work in a culture that is unfamiliar to them even if they are not aware of it. Organizations want their people to hit the ground running and don't allow for the time it takes to move through relocation stress and culture shock.
Even for those who have had training related to the transition and to the specific culture find it hard to remember what they learned when they are actually in the situation.
Our Cultural Learning Model
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The purpose of this program is to minimize the impact of the inherent stress in the initial stages of the relocation process and to use the challenges of the international assignment to develop the global leadership capacity of the leader or leaders.
This program is coordinated with the family services program. Click here to learn more.
Our five stage process is based on extensive research and involves all those who need to work together to ensure the success of the assignment including:
- The leader
- The HR professional
- The host country manager
- Family members
- Assignment completed
- Clarity around desired results of the assignment
- Measurable methods for performance evaluation
- Plan for achieving the desired results
- Heightened cultural awareness resulting in effective leadership across countries and cultures.
- Skills transferable to any global business venture
- Minimization of repatriation shock
- Higher employee satisfaction
- Accumulation of organizational wealth following assignment
- Selection beyond the ordinary, preparation for assignment, assessments
- Contracting assistance, performance evaluation system put in place, leadership development goals defined.
- Cultural and business preparation
- Implementation, onsite coaching and Shadow Coaching
- Repatriation
or phone 301.274.3898 in the United States, Eastern Time.