Expatriation is the expected encounter with the unfamiliar.
Repatriation is the unexpected encounter with the familiar.
Homecoming: Seizing the Opportunity is a one-day coaching workshop that ideally occurs soon after the assignee and family members have relocated back in their home country.
Alternatively, a Willa Hallowell coach can deliver the one-day coaching workshop before the family returns to its home country, i.e., while it’s still in the host country.
And we have tailor-made Country Transition coaching workshops for assignees and families who are leaving their host country and transitioning to a new host country (“third country”).
Read former expatriate coachees’ testimonials for Cross-Cultural Adaptability Coaching.
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OBJECTIVES OF OUR REPATRIATION WORKSHOP
- to deal with the issues common to returning employees, spouses, teenagers, and children;
- to enable the assignee to regain his or her high level of performance on behalf of the firm;
- to create a action plan for seizing the advantages gained by living and working abroad.
Willa Hallowell’s services are focused on the timely re-adaptation of each family member. Our coach is a mature professional who has been an adult member of a repatriating family on at least one occasion. Special repatriation coaching for children and teenagers is available, too.
I met with [name of expat] today. She, her husband, and daughter were very pleased with the Repatriation Workshop. They are happy and excited as they anticipate their return to China. The workshop has helped them in many more ways than they expected. Thank you for your help.
Connie Espiritu-De Lorimier, Johnson & Johnson. Email to Willa Hallowell, June 2006
CORPORATE REPATRIATION CONSULTING
It has long been known that recently repatriated employees have a high rate of turnover. “Repats” who leave their company are senior, experienced, capable people who prove hard to replace. Inevitably, some end up working for a competitor.
If your focus on your firm’s long-term global objectives, then it makes sense to think of all your expatriates as people who are not only doing work abroad but also acquiring valuable knowledge and skills — competencies your firm could make use of. After all, it paid for the acquisition of those competencies!
Using a recently repatriated employees’ experience and competence involves both giving them globally-oriented new assignments and finding ways to capture their knowledge, apply it as appropriate, and disseminate it for use by other employees who are working to help your firm expand worldwide.
If you engage Willa Hallowell to consult with your firm regarding repatriation, this investment perspective is what our associates will bring to you. You’ll be happy because you’ll be harnessing already-paid-for potential. The returnees will be happy because it’s their potential being harnessed.
