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International
(Expatriate) Coaching
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Coaching
support is a critical variable in the success of employees
working abroad. Both employees and their families can
benefit from coaching when they are faced with:
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- Unfamiliar
cultural norms, customs and values of a new country
- Separation
from family and friends
- Communications
challenges, both business and personal
- Adjustment
to a new work group and corporate culture
- Loss
of a sense of feeling "settled" since most international assignments
are temporary
- Loss
of life balance (the employee may be tempted to work 100 percent
of the time, while the "trailing spouse" may have put his or
her career on hold while living abroad)
Sharon
has lived and worked in the UK, Germany and Sweden. In addition,
she has represented AirTouch (now Vodafone and Verizon Wireless)
in other European countries (France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain,
and the Netherlands) as well as in Asia (Thailand, Japan, Malaysia,
Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea) and Mexico.
Not
only has she faced the classic challenges of expats herself, she
has coached and supported, over the course of their international
assignments, the many American expats who reported to her.
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