Crossing Borders
- prepare expats and their spouses on how to deal with transition
and change,
- develop individuals to improve their intercultural competence.
All sessions are on an individual basis and done by phone.
Before the actual training, future expat assignees and spouses answer a web-based cross-cultural
questionnaire. The answers are automatically compiled by the Intercultural Awareness Profiler and allow us to know more about the participant's cross-cultural orientation. Based on this information we adapt the training to the individual cultural
orientation of the trainee and the opportunities and challenges likely to be
encountered when crossing borders and/or when dealing with diverse teams.
Additional to the preparation and the individual session we support
trainees by offering
- access to the web-based Culture Compass OnLine – a mine of
information when it comes to cross-cultural and country specific data,
- THT publications,
- an additional coaching session to support the expat during the
assignment.
Expat support programme: Participants
Since August 2008 we have been training and coaching 239 expat assignees and spouses.
51 female
(29%) and 122 (71%) male expat assignees participated in the cultural training
programme.
Children in expat assignments
8% of the assignees are women going abroad with their children.
Expats and their age when going abroad
The majority of expats are in their thirties when going abroad.
Destinations
Using
web-based tools and offering training and coaching by phone we provide worldwide coverage.
Cultural
training and
coaching
sessions are being conducted by phone. For more information please contact us. 
