Intercultural Awareness Training

You want to support your employees abroad to successfully complete their assignments. Early returns are very expensive for all involved and completed yet unsuccessful assignments can be even more costly. Employees abroad must develop cross-cultural awareness — knowledge, understanding, tools and skills — to be able to do their jobs to the best of their ability in a new cultural context.

Currently companies support their employees on assignment abroad by providing one or two-day pre-departure or post-arrival cross-cultural training.

But does it work?
ROI studies have shown that as high as 87% of learning is lost within six weeks if there is no consistent follow up over time.

What are the other options?
Training plus coaching
Pros – makes the training stick.
Cons – can be expensive and difficult to arrange (when face to face).
Materials alone
Pros – inexpensive.
Cons – provides only knowledge.
Cross-cultural coaching
Pros – very effective, works with what is relevant to the employee’s situation.
Cons – can be expensive and difficult to arrange (when face to face).

What if there were another option that:
• was easy to access – anywhere and at anytime,
• inexpensive,
• self-directed and self-paced,
• based on proven coaching methodology and adult learning principles,
• provided continuous support over time,
• helped employees develop effective personal strategies relevant to their situation.

Contact me to learn more about The Expat Gym – a community with a purpose — and provide your employees with the support and strategies they need to do their best, wherever they are.