Relocation – USA

Ensuring to your collaborators a stress-free move to a new country, preventing a cultural-shock is really important. You want to guarantee to each of them the best experience to make their life and work life as smooth as possible.

Developing intercultural skills is increasingly necessary and urgent if you want to operate successfully at an international level, communicate effectively with new colleagues, friends, and customers, and develop solid working and personal relationships wherever you are.

Why you might adopt this kind of program?

• Adopting intercultural management training programs increases productivity by 26% on average (Accenture)
• US companies with 500 employees lose on average $6.25 million each year resolving communication issues (The Harris Poll)
• Embedding employee wellbeing in designing the work and mobility itself is one of the key trends in global mobility programs (Deloitte)

The aim of the programme is to:

• help expatriates and their families adjust to life in a new culture, enabling them to concentrate on their new tasks and lives from day one;
• prepare them on specific topics like relationship management, business etiquette, different work and lifestyles;
• develop skills and learning strategies to cope with the challenges of living abroad.

Module 1 – 2 hours (pre-departure)
Cultural awareness

Topics:

• Starting with your own culture: cultural awareness, self-awareness, knowledge and sensitivity
• Stereotypes, prejudices and biases and how they can affect your relocation

Module 2 – 2 hours (in person or online)
Cultural intelligence

Topics:

• Cultural dilemmas
• The main cultural differences between the new country and their country of origin
• How to mitigate the cultural shock

Module 3 – 2 hours (in person or online)
Cultural proficiency

In this session, our expert will address the main questions and provide advice for the challenges the people relocating are facing after their first few weeks/month.

Leadership and Executive Coaching – 4 – 8 individual coaching sessions – over 4 months
Integration into the US workplace and Transition to the new role

Topics:

• Developing professional goals and objectives and a related action plan
• Building relationships and networking
• Overcoming communication challenges (negotiation, conflict management, executive presence, public speaking, etc.)
• Adapting the working style
• Building a team, inspiring and motivating others

Life Coaching – 6 – 12 individual coaching sessions – over 6 months
Emotional and social wellbeing

Topics:

• Managing work life-balance in the US
• Developing Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to deal with the life changes
• Find purpose, passions, sense of belonging in a new country
• Managing the stress and uncertainities of relocating to a different country

Session 1 – 2 hours (in person or online)

Topics:

• Identities and intersectionality
• Stereotypes, prejudices and biases and how they can affect team work
• The main cultural differences inside the team

Session 2 – 2 hours (in person or online)

Topics:

• Leadership and management in a multicultural team
• Negotiating and communicating across cultures
• Focus Communication and Relationships with specific cultures and business etiquette, simulation and role plays

Viviana Premazzi, PhD
GMD Founder
Cultural relocation expert and trainer

Maria Teresa Romeo
Founder of Cometa Coaching
Executive Coach and Organizational Behavior Expert

Do you want to know more about the program and it benefits?
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