Expat Optimiser Program Overview
This program has been designed to contribute to the success of your expatriate assignment by helping to set you and your family up for success. Typical areas of focus include:
Who is this program for?
- Coaching to help expats and their partners assimilate quickly to their new surrounds
- Developing a 1, 3 and 6 month plan to get on task with their job quickly and efficiently
- How to maintain a healthy sense of resilience despite the challenges that accompanies expatriation
- Dealing with the challenges of identity and "what's next" for the partners of expats who are leaving their own career behind
- Managing and balancing family and work needs
Who is this program for?
- First time expats
- Partners of expats
- Experienced expats looking to refine their global working skills
Expat Optimiser Program Structure
1. Contracting & Connection Meeting
Whilst coaching is largely dependent on your needs, this is an opportunity to ensure coaching will be conducted with the appropriate business links identified. A multi-cornered contract is established defining what the manager, you and your coach will do to ensure the coaching program stands the greatest chance of being successful for all parties.
2. Individual Coaching Sessions 6 x 2 hrs
Individual coaching sessions are conducted, tailored to suit your personal objectives, and in the context of the contract. If only the assignee is undertaking the program, your partner is invited to participate in these meetings if the topic extends to involve them or your family.
Possible areas of focus include:
Identity & Adaptation
The identity of an expat and their partner/family is challenged in many ways when moving to a new country, and also when returning from an assignment. This topic focuses on understanding the changing (and challenging) nature of self-perception and identity throughout the different phases of expatriation. This will include some pre-work where you will gain insight to your personal ‘Working Style’ and the impact this can have on how you assimilate and go through the process of integration and building healthy and productive inter-cultural matrix relationships. The conversation on identity also lends itself to the concept and practice of adaptation; cultural, social, business and within the your own personal relationships.
Relationships and Networks
Crucial to the success of your assignment is the ability to establish a strong network for professional success and personal support. This includes the maintenance of relationships with your home country as well as creating new relationships that will support their professional success in the host country. We can explore together the global psychology that underpins the way relationships are formed, and introduce you to a new way of uncovering the invisible stakeholders (the Expat Stakeholder Success Map) who can either block or enhance your international career. For the partners of expats, this is equally important - establishing networks in your new country will help you to re-establish yourself and create your own local network for continuing your career, provision of personal support and providing social outlets.
Possible areas of focus include:
Identity & Adaptation
The identity of an expat and their partner/family is challenged in many ways when moving to a new country, and also when returning from an assignment. This topic focuses on understanding the changing (and challenging) nature of self-perception and identity throughout the different phases of expatriation. This will include some pre-work where you will gain insight to your personal ‘Working Style’ and the impact this can have on how you assimilate and go through the process of integration and building healthy and productive inter-cultural matrix relationships. The conversation on identity also lends itself to the concept and practice of adaptation; cultural, social, business and within the your own personal relationships.
Relationships and Networks
Crucial to the success of your assignment is the ability to establish a strong network for professional success and personal support. This includes the maintenance of relationships with your home country as well as creating new relationships that will support their professional success in the host country. We can explore together the global psychology that underpins the way relationships are formed, and introduce you to a new way of uncovering the invisible stakeholders (the Expat Stakeholder Success Map) who can either block or enhance your international career. For the partners of expats, this is equally important - establishing networks in your new country will help you to re-establish yourself and create your own local network for continuing your career, provision of personal support and providing social outlets.
Option - Group Coaching Sessions
For organisations with a number of expats undertaking the expat optimiser program, there is the option of group coaching sessions where experiences can be shared, and new networks for support created. The topics for these sessions will be based around the common needs of the group.
3. Reflection & Close
In this meeting with the expat and their manager, the coaching program will be reflected upon, with deep learning points captured.