Development Format – Expatriates and Impatriates
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Living and working abroad – the globalization of work requires intercultural personnel development. The number of assignments from home to abroad (expatriates) and vice versa from abroad to home (impatriates) continues to increase. This is a highly complex issue, the implementation of which not only challenges organizations, but also those affected themselves – the delegates and their families.
In most cases, the phenomenon of cultural shock occurs, which can affect expatriates and family members abroad, but can also have a more or less severe impact when they return to their home country. While the delegate has to live with cultural diversity and work between cultures on a daily basis, the partner often struggles with loneliness, a abandoned career, the construction of a new home and the search for a new identity. The children, in turn, have to find their way in a new school environment and build up a new circle of friends.
The development format Ex/Impatriates comprises a continuous monitoring of the delegate and the family members, starting from the time of the preparation of the assignment up to the return and re-integration into the home country, with the aim of making the assignment more successful for all parties involved. This increases the effectiveness of international assignments and the ROI for the company. An assignment abroad is always a high investment for a company – I support companies in making this investment worthwhile and I professionally accompany expatriates on their assignment abroad. A consulting project for a posting abroad would therefore amount to about 1-2% of the assignment costs, while the high costs that can arise from an unsuccessful assignment would stand in contrast.
Impatriates can also be accompanied and advised locally and, in most cases, even in their mother tongue, which significantly increases the success of the coaching. Through my very personal experience of living and working abroad, I can convey what it feels like to be abroad and what can be expected of the people concerned.
…demonstrates consistency between words and actions…
“Karin is a highly engaged and passionate HR Business Partner with broad functional expertise and outstanding personality. She gains the confidence and trust of others showing integer and ethical behavior. She treats people fairly and demonstrates consistency between words and actions. In a very demanding and challenging business environment Karin was always acting in the best interest of her internal customers and was a respected expert and trusted advisor. With her creative and results oriented working style she strongly supported business decision makers. It was a great pleasure and privilege to work with Karin and I can highly recommend her.”
…with a lot of humor and charm and unique capacity for empathy…
“Cheerful, avid, creative, sensitive, target-oriented and well-organized are the adjectives that come to mind when I think about Karin. I had the pleasure of being coached by her when I was searching for new opportunities and professional advancement. For me as an expat living in Laos, the coaching was a unique opportunity to obtain qualified advice in a foreign, often challenging environment. Karin created a holistic positioning on a professional and personal level for me. The way she performed was very clear and enjoyable. Her positive attitude and the respect I felt during the session gave me security and confirmation in my career plans. I highly recommend her as an inspiring coach with a lot of humor and charm and unique capacity for empathy.”
…Exzellent! Ich bin von Ihrer Idee und der Ausführung begeistert…
“Exzellent! Ich bin von Ihrer Idee und der Ausführung begeistert! Sie haben gezeigt, dass Sie die methodischen Grundlagen eines handlungsorientierten Trainings verstanden haben und exzellent in die Praxis überführen können. Ich wünsche Ihnen und Ihren TeilnehmerInnen Freude an den zukünftigen Trainings. Ich bin weltweit in der Lehrerfortbildung tätig und hätte gerne Ihr Einverständnis, dass ich Ihre Materialien unter Angabe Ihres Namens in Seminaren zur Fortbildung einsetzen darf.”
…a great person even before being an excellent professional…
“Karin is a great person even before being an excellent professional. I had the privilege to work with her while coordinating HR in Europe. At this time, I met a skillful and passionate HR, dedicated to her function. Karin has always shown a participative and innovative team spirit and I strongly recommend her for any local or international HR team.”
…I link its success directly to the insights I gained in the session…
“I requested a coaching session with Karin before a new phase in my career started – and I link its success directly to the insights I gained in the session. These insights included appreciating in what kinds of teams and circumstances I thrive and perform well, which resulted in a better understanding of what kinds of jobs I should be applying for. The session also gave me the ability to embrace my own style of working and leading, without having to second-guess my decisions. This also led to the recognition that some of my abilities and skills are directly linked to character traits that are here to stay with me – thus, trying to change them would be counter-productive. This in turn freed up more energy for creativity and keeping up with changes and innovations in my field of expertise, daring to explore new approaches and feeling empowered to assertively recommend and apply these changes in approach that benefit the whole organization I work for.”
…I appreciated how you conquered the team…
“I just wanted to thank you again for the excellent job you did with our team – it was a pleasant, fruitful and insightful exercise. I really appreciated how you conquered the team by explaining the bigger picture of HR management and development, by being patient, intuitive and not least by your smile. Your professional seniority came with the right level of authority over our manager and the team as a whole. Well done, really!”
…very proactive and highly respected in my team and myself…
“Karin Jungmann has been a highly professional HR Manager, very proactive and highly respected in my team and myself. She has been in charge of all HR questions for the Elements Business at Swarovski, which I have been in charge of as a Senior VP Marketing at a time. She has been a true business partner to our business unit and I can highly recommend her.”