Cultural Training: Expatriate Training and Repatriation Training

Expatriate Training is designed for the relocating assignee and family. The training helps individuals and their families adjust to the new environment and prepare for successful interaction both in daily life and business situations in the destination country. The training consists of the following parts: cultural differences/culture shock, business life, daily life/city specifics. The training occurs over 8-12 hours. A separate, customized children's and young adult program (4 hours) is also available.

 

 

Cultural Adjustment and the CCAI™		Cultural Coaching
Cultural Training (60+ Countries)		Repatriation Assessment
Repatriation Training

 

 

Cultural Adjustment and the CCAI™

This course uses a self-assessment Cross Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI™) tool to provide a company and its employee with insight into the employees' ability to adapt culturally in a new environment. The CCAI™ tool helps an individual understand what personal characteristics contribute to successful interactions with all cultures.  The culture-general CCAI™ focuses on four skill areas that research and experience have shown to be critical in adapting to other cultures – emotional resilience, flexibility and openness, perceptual acuity and personal autonomy.  Feedback is provided regarding an individual's relative strengths and weaknesses in relation to these four dimensions. This instrument is not a predictor of success but a self-assessment tool that offers time for personal reflection in regard to one's behavior within another culture.

Objectives:

• Help determine an employee's readiness for a work assignment abroad
• Raise awareness of the employee's cultural adaptability and flexibility
• Reflect on employee's expectations, motivations, strengths and weaknesses in case of expatriation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cultural Coaching

Global LT's Cultural Coaching Services help executives, faced with today's global challenges, gain new cultural insights and skills to better manage and mobilize their organizations.  Cultural coaching will help executives understand their own and other people's motives and emotions better, enabling them to lead and manage more effectively.  Participants will learn to think and act in a more culturally mindful way, resulting in stronger global relationships and better focus and alignment among global organizations.  The coaching process consists of a contracting session to clearly define expectations; a comprehensive needs assessment; workshop; and ongoing coaching sessions and review meeting. 

Objectives:

• Understand one's own and others' motives and emotions and learn to handle these more effectively
• Learn to think and act in a culturally mindful way
• Understand the impact of cultural dimensions on business practices

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cultural Training (60+ Countries)

This course is custom-designed for international assignees and families relocating to a foreign country, based upon the completion of a needs assessment. Cultural training prepares individuals and their families for the time abroad by introducing cultural concepts, and raising awareness of one's own culture and the differences between it and the target culture, as it relates to business life and daily living.  City specific information is also reviewed. The class equips the international assignee to live and work successfully anywhere in the world. Course topics include a country/culture's history, geography, language, environment and technology, social organization, and communication style.  Global LT's Cultural Training courses are available for over 60 countries/cultures. 

Objectives:

• Prepare individuals and their families to interact successfully in daily life and business situations abroad
• Understand the impact various factors have on cultural behaviors and attitudes to make the most of the living abroad experience
• Raise awareness of the challenges of moving abroad, culture shock and how to deal with exposure to new cultural experiences

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repatriation Assessment

This assessment tool helps companies and employees prepare for the return home by addressing the challenges and concerns surrounding the repatriation experience. Workplace, personal life, and reverse culture shock are among the topics addressed. A preliminary questionnaire is administered to all members of the repatriating family to assess levels of readiness and uncover any potential areas of concern. Prior to repatriation, consultants begin work with family members to goal-set and discuss expectations. Other services, such as student educational assessments are also available. 

Objectives:

• Address levels of readiness and any areas of concern before repatriation
• Set realistic goals and expectations for re-entry to the home country
• Raise awareness of reverse culture shock and its stages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repatriation Training

With information supplied by the Repatriation Assessment, this course helps create a plan for an expatriate employee's return home to the workplace, as well as the community.  Our repatriation program is customized and formatted to address the specific needs of the repatriating employee, and includes the following topics: reverse culture shock, an 'inventory' of what was gained and what was lost as a result of this unique experience, personal finances, shifting values, applying new skills, and reintegration into the corporation.

Objectives:

• Establish a plan for the return home and to the workplace
• Achieve a gradual, successful reintegration to the home community and workplace
• Determine follow-up support required to reinforce newly acquired skills

 

 

 

 

 

 

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