Hit The Ground Running – Preparing Expats (and spouse) to move to a new country
(ongoing) for industries such as e.g. Digital, Healthcare, Engineering, Finance, Trade, Resources, Manufactoring, Agri-food, Defence, Infrastructure, Tourism, and the Circular Economy.

Challenge

Expats or their managers may not recognise gaps in personal traits or intercultural skills:Expats are often chosen for their expertise, and neither they nor their organisations always assess their intercultural readiness. Our approach and development tools help identify and address these gaps for more effective intercultural interactions. Expats often lack time for training not directly related to their job: By sharing your background, experience, job role, and workplace culture, we tailor intercultural knowledge and skills to benefit you, your position, and your organisation’s success. Expats need skills and competencies immediately, not later. We support your expats (and their spouse) before departure and/or after arrival.

Interventions during intercultural coaching:

1. Living in Australia – Country Specific Briefing
   (usually 2 x 2-hours virtual sessions)
   – Introduction and getting indepth knowledge about the request
   – Cultural awareness frameworks, multiple perspective taking and preparing for culture shock
   – Similarities and differences in social relationships between the relevant countries
   – Living in the new country (Country specific knowledge: history, politics, religion, geography, economics, language, food, dress, social customes, etc.).
2. Working in Australia – Cultural Competence Development
   (usually 2 x 2-hours virtual sessions
   – Prework self-assessment in to prefered work behaviour: leadership, decison-making, task completion and communication
   – Discussing behavioural work differences and practices between relevant countries
   – Defining possible dilemmas and integrating cultural gaps to manage the complexity
3. Cultural Self awareness (throughout the session(s)):
   – assess your Cultural Orientation, preferred Work practices, preferred Communication Type, and your Intercultural Readiness
4. Email contact to follow-up after two months in the country and discuss if continuing support is required.

Contact us for:

Country briefings and continuing support to the professionals when they are in Australia or overseas and in need for additional coaching and ongoing mentoring. We prepare professionals for a range of countries in Ocenania, Asia, Europe, South America and the USA.

We work with Corporates and Government to prepare expats (and their spouse) to enhance cultural know-how and competence to prepare them to make the most of their expatriation position.