Coaching & Moving abroad

Ensuring a successful foreign posting or managing the integration of new foreign staff

Personal coaching specifically for the host country
Analysis work
Qualified coaches
Individual language courses
Inter-cultural support

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“Now I can communicate in
“French“.
I am autonomous”

María Jiménez Alfaro
Spanish, on secondment

“Even though it is only 10 hours for us, studying at JM Formation is like a pill.

It makes you better. My trainer is like a commander who knows what to do during a war. I fight for progress in my French, she gives me the right strategy. I am not the only one who thinks like this. My colleagues who take courses there agree with me.”

Journalist from Euronews

People often dream of moving to another country. But this adventure, synonymous with new job opportunities, usually undertaken as a family, needs support to be completely successful in both personal and professional terms. The enthusiasm associated with learning about an unfamiliar country, culture and business practices is not without its fears, stresses and disappointments. The cultural shock has been amply described and analysed. The Canadian anthropologist, Kaverlo Oberg, breaks it down into five stages: honeymoon, negotiation, crisis, adjustment and adaptation. In this context, what responses should you give to a foreign employee who has come to work in France? How should you prepare a colleague for a foreign posting?

Coaching personnel

“cultural awareness”

To learn the language of the host country

Sharing experiences

Personal coaching in making a “life change”

Our coaching is based on the following:

transactional analysis: a theory of personality and a model of communication that studies interpersonal relations , called “transactions” , through “Ego states ” (parent, adult, child). This allows us to work on cultural frames of reference (family culture, national culture, corporate culture) and the “filters” that impede interpersonal relations, on the four life positions and the concept of OK-ness (our own values and the values of others).

la Cross-Cultural Communication:

a theory that studies the way cultures communicate with each other, particularly through Gerd Hofstede’’s 4 Cultural Dimensions (Hierarchy – or Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, Individualism v Collectivism, Masculinity v Femininity) and the 5 stages of Culture Shock).