Deploying national staff overseas or hiring professionals from abroad?
We support an effortless transition
For many companies and non-profit organizations, cross-border operations and cultural diversity is the norm. Interacting and cooperating interculturally and internationally has many benefits but is complex and deserves sensitivity and attention.
When you partner with CoachingExpats, you have access to a highly knowledgeable network of consultants who understand the challenges of international operations and intercultural collaboration. Our experts collaborate with you every step of the way to strategize and build intercultural competence and sensitivity, strengthen workplace relations, and drive international success
CoachingExpats is your reliable, trusted performance partner if you cooperate across borders or if you operate with internal intercultural diversity. Our coaches and consultants are well-recognised in their fields from many years of experience in international cooperation.
CoachingExpats partners with internationally operating organizations to:
- Prevent premature contract termination and staff attrition
- Improve work processes post-crisis or conflict
- Strengthen working and business relations at home and abroad
- Build intercultural competence and understanding among employees in a context-appropriate manner
- Support dynamic and innovative leadership, reducing burnout incidents and rigidity
Harness talent
Improve communication
Strengthen cooperation
EXCELLENCE: Our coaches and trainers have extensive industry knowledge and experience gained in diverse international contexts, informing our pragmatic support to your organization or company.
Coaching expatriates and their families in transition
According to a study by Global Relocation Trends, companies and organizations lose 52% of their employees within the first two years of returning home. The reasons for this are numerous. Yet, most employee absences and layoffs could be avoided through appropriate coaching and training during their time abroad and upon reintegration home, which must also include the accompanying family. The cost of rehiring far outweighs that of appropriate intervention to retain an employer needing additional support during a difficult phase or incident
Change and Stability
Supporting transition
and development
Personnel and Team development. Organizational development. Process monitoring.
Our programs ease the transition process during critical phases of change and promote skills of interaction and cooperation of your staff on site, whilst supporting your personnel and team development measures internationally.
CoachingExpats offers individual consultation and coaching, tandem coaching, team coaching, conflict resolution, mediation and training, group workshops, project debriefing. They can be ordered as one-off services, subscriptions, or be bundled as a business package. Additional services are available at additional cost
Service Spectrum for organizations, companies, foundations:
- Management and Leadership development - local and international
- Intercultural Leadership Competence - Training
- Team development
- Organizational development
- Gender dynamics, gender conflicts
- Mediation and conflict resolution
- Building healthy team and workplace cultures
- Interdisciplinary crisis intervention
- Resilience training and mental health information
- Staff rest and rejuvenation retreats
Strong Performance,
Resilient People
Invest in your people to yield performance and profit
Prevent staff shortages, chronic stress, absenteeism, and the high costs involved in ignoring staff wellbeing. Contact us obligation free to find out more.
FOCUS: Employee assistance in international contexts
Short-term coaching, intercultural coaching, and psychological counseling to strengthen resources and resilience
A new culture, a new position, working dynamics with incompatible expectations, interests and leadership styles, stressful living and working environments, personality mismatches, precarious security conditions, and family stressors – these are just some of the challenges facing professionals and executives when working abroad. The professional and personal requirements are difficult to anticipate until landing in the host country. When navigating integration and times of change, an independent, objective coach or mentor is a valuable resource.
Organizations and employees will benefit from:
- Access to resources to effectively manage micro and major hurdles and crises
- Maintained focus in high-pressure situations
- Intercultural flexibility and competence
- Helpful coping strategies to external and internal conflicts
- Work-life balance, and maintained personal vision
- Coaching for accompanying family members for their professional and social growth
- Professional development opportunities
Our support includes:
- Coping with change
- Effective handling of conflicting interests, perspectives and expectations
- Context-specific intercultural competence
- Personal agency and self-care in the new living and working environment
- Coping skills for partner and family issues
- Stress regulation strategies
- Conflict management tools
FOCUS: Personal development in the context of international assignments
Coaching to develop personal potential, competence and resilience
Motivated, self-aware and accountable employees and managers who collaborate and can remain focused in a challenge are assets to an organization. Emotional and social intelligence can be learned. They are key to successfully adjusting to a new social environment and are indispensable skills for management. We support your organization to strengthen personal agency among employees to be able to confidently and assertively navigate international operations.
Organizations and employees will benefit from:
- Improved social and emotional intelligence – including local context training to build trust and encourage connection within the host country
- Improved interpersonal communication, education on context-specific communication styles and relationship-building processes
- Strategies to cope with solitude and difficult situations
- A more developed self-awareness, the ability to reflect and apply self-care to regulate emotions
- Understanding of own limitations and strengths and how they fit within the new team
- Active recovery from mistakes, create opportunity and growth mindset
- Acceptance and internal resolution of demotivating situations
- Expansive and flexible thinking to see beyond limitations
- Education on the importance of stress regulation for current and future physical and mental health
Our support includes:
- Cultivating the ability to assimilate and build harmonious relationships in the host country
- Addressing ethnocentricity from all sides, to find commonalities and improve relations
- Conflict management and healthy self-confidence
- Building mutual trust and support at work
- Self-care and burnout prevention strategies, including identifying warning signs and intervening early
- Psychological counselling following extreme events to alleviate stress, fears, psychosomatic complaints
FOCUS: Professional development – international and intercultural competence and leadership
Coaching and training for effective leadership across cultures and borders
What does it mean to be an effective leader? How to create working environments where employees feel psychologically safe, even in phases of external crises or high-volume workloads. What do intercultural teams need from their leaders? What qualities and core competencies do managers and team leaders need in a foreign setting? How can executives from different cultures successfully work together?
This program targets internationally engaged executives, leaders of intercultural teams, and multinational management teams to offer coaching and education that support successful leadership and collaboration competence under very complex, sometimes competitive, conditions.
Your organization and executive staff benefit from:
- Education using evidence-based best-practice international management tools
- Harmonized working dynamics with collaborative goal setting, and prioritized employee health and well-being
- Multidirectional feedback processes, building psychological safety to foster effective communication and risk management
- Intercultural competence, sensitivity and flexibility
Our support includes:
- Skill building for effective leadership under complex conditions
- Cultural competence for managers
- Trust building strategies to improve cooperation in areas vulnerable to intercultural tensions
- Utilising conflicts as examples for understanding and compromise
- Mediation skills
- Cross-cultural gender and diversity inclusion and anti-discrimination education and awareness
FOCUS: Harnessing diversity and intercultural collaboration
Team coaching, moderation, conflict resolution, trust building, debriefing
Team coaching, moderation, conflict resolution, trust building, debriefing
For a group of strangers to collaborate productively, rapport and trust must be built. Interpersonal dynamics influence a team’s performance and its resilience to crises. What do intercultural teams need from each other to build psychological safety and collaborate effectively? How can teams adjust to a new expatriate and or local hire? How to engage with local partners and actors?
Culturally sensitive team facilitation and intercultural coaching are important steps to building trust and safety to harness the limitless potential that a diverse team offers.
Organizations and employees will benefit from:
Team facilitation, (local) context-specific coaching, and conflict resolution are well-known tools to support individual team members and interactions. Respectful communication, multidirectional feedback, clear goals, and psychological safety are essential foundations. A resilient team becomes an autonomous driver of productivity that can also withstand and overcome setbacks and crises.
Our support includes:
- Rapport and trust building to find commonality and appreciate differences; dissolve cultural assumptions, and expectations
- Analysing strengths and weaknesses, plus confrontation, cooperation, and leadership styles, to foster mutually beneficial collaborations
- Education on team dynamics, understanding natural processes of change with new members (to see as an opportunity, not a threat)
- Addressing one-directional or critical feedback culture Adjustment to codes of conduct, understanding psychological safety, and preventing workplace bullying
Focus: Transitioning by change process
facilitation and coaching
Organizations and teams are regularly undergoing change and adjustments, even more so in international contexts. Integrating new team members and projects, redirecting vision or resources, and adapting protocol are important but costly. Although organizations and projects benefit greatly from the multi-perspectivity that a diverse team brings, intercultural team dynamics can be conflictual and prone to misunderstandings. An independent moderator is an essential resource in change management and team integration processes.
Organizations and employees will benefit from:
Active guidance by impartial, internationally experienced consultants in shaping phases of change. We work with organizations to reassure personnel during process change management, as well as identify areas of team resistance and project development gaps that threaten outcome achievement.
Management and team members feel part of an appreciative and results-oriented working environment.
Teams demonstrate resilience and an ability to withstand periods of stress.
Areas of focus:
- Sustainable restructuring
- Shaping structural change according to goals
- Conflict resolution
- Communication protocols and interpersonal communication
- Integration of mission statement
- Employee satisfaction
- Building resilient team culture
- Improving workplace dynamics and culture
Focus: Professional Restorative Retreats
Retreats are an important part of ongoing mental and physical balance, especially for those working in crisis and conflict regions, or with high workloads, or with difficult team dynamics. Our approach is holistic and focuses on rebuilding physical and mental balance, restoring energy, and processing stressful experiences through body movement, mindfulness and creativity, as well as coaching and counselling upon request.
Organizations and employees will benefit from:
- Burnout prevention
- Proactive decompression before stress-related symptoms and secondary diseases due to chronic stress set in
- Solutions to combat addictions tendencies and harmful reward habits
- Promotion of creativity and motivation
Areas of focus:
- Protective and caring environment in nature
- Wholesome nutrition, restorative setting
- Relaxation and active release of tension
- Individual sessions with one of the experts
- Professional support, regulation tools and specialist interventions on request
Employee retreats can be booked for individuals, teams and groups of up to 12 people. In between retreats, the retreat houses are available for private bookings for individuals, couples, families or groups.
High performance and well-being
with Expert Coaching and Care
Reduces attrition, prevents stress induced disease, fosters individual and organizational resilience.
