In most cases, co-operations do not fail due to lack of willingness to work together but due to the inability to recognize one’s own weaknesses and accept complementary strengths of others.
Diversity through global employee mobility
This diversity exposes many organizations to people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds working together.
On the one hand, this offers fantastic chances of knowledge transfer and innovations. On the other hand, this global mobility presents every individual with huge challenges in terms of open(-minded)ness and tolerance.
This applies in particular to international experts and executives, the so-called expatriates, as well as to their colleagues and superiors at their German employer’s. As an organization, you have put a lot of effort in recruiting a foreign expert. In order to make sure that your expectations and those of your foreign employee will be met to the greatest possible extent, all involved are called on to design the integration process together.
Coaching & training is to everybody’s benefit
Both the expatriate and their colleagues and superiors will benefit enormously from professional training and coaching:
Intercultural understanding will be promoted, and the willingness to show mutual consideration and mutual professional and personal respect will increase. Above all, my team coachings are about strengthening similarities and common characteristics in order to facilitate successful collaboration afterwards.
As a basis for working on a team, the participants in my team coachings establish common rules of collaboration that reflect the values of all team members. This is the only way to implement a co-operation that is perceived as positive by everyone involved.
My team coaching can also help implement smoother and more productive co-operation within multicultural and virtual teams.
Find out more about a typical case in my article.
