Successfully Meeting the Three Challenges of all Global Assignments
One- to three-day training seminars for global assignees abroad,
those destined abroad, and the spouses of both.
Presented by
Gary Fontaine, Ph.D.
Strange Lands Global Assignment Specialists
The seminar objective is to enhance the success of international assignees in terms of their adjustment, performance, and satisfaction. It familiarizes assignees with the ThreeKey Challenges encountered on all global assignments. These challenges include: (1) coping with ecoshock or their psychological and physiological reaction to encountering new overseas people, places and technologies; (2) getting the job done in this new ecology; and (3) maintaining motivation or the "will to continue to try" to try and put forth their best efforts day after day, year after year. Seminars teach assignees the strategies and skills necessary to deal effectively with these challenges.
These seminars are designed for global assignees, the families accompanying them, the managers supervising them, and their hosts abroad working with them. The seminars deal with the needs and experiences of them all using a variety of workshop training techniques. These techniques help trainees take the skills they've learned "back home" to their job and continue to develop and expand them in a manner tailored to their specific job situations.
Sample Seminar Topics
The basics of success--being adjusted, effective & satisfied
The ecology of working & living in the specific assignment site overseas
Meeting the 3 challenges of all global assignments
Coping with ecoshock--our reaction to a new people, cultures, places & technologies
Getting the job done by dealing effectively with diversity
Maintaining motivation--the will to continue
Communicating effectively across cultures
Resolving workgroup conflict
Developing & maintaining the social support we need
Each of our programs provides participants with access to a Support Package to facilitate the continued enhancement of their strategies and skills over the course of their assignment. The package includes links to key information, resources, bibliographies, graphics, education and training opportunities, and support organizations.
Gary Fontaine is the Principal Program Specialist for Strange Lands and an emeritus professor in the School of Communications at the University of Hawaii. His primary professional interests center on helping people and organizations deal with the new people, places, cultures and technologies encountered on assignments in contexts such as international business, diplomacy, foreign study, geographically dispersed teams, distance education, knowledge creation and transfer, immigration, justice, tourism, and service delivery, and intercultural marriage. A complete description of his professional background and activities is available through his Home Page and Resumé. He is an intervention specialist, author and researcher with over 30 years experience in the Americas/Asia/Pacific region and have provided services to personnel from over 100 organizations. A sample of these includes:
Air New Zealand; American Express International; Asia Industrial Development; Asia Motors; China American Petrochemical; Citibank; Coca-Cola; Crazy Shirts; Del Monte Fresh Produce (Asia-Pacific & Philippines); Digital; Dole Philippines; Dow Chemical Pacific; Dow Chemical Singapore; Fujitsu Nagoya; Honeywell; General Electric; Green Giant Fresh; IBM Singapore; International Catholic Migration Commission; Kodak; Kong Ming Bank; Manila Hilton; Mercedes-Benz; Mobil Producing Services East Asia; Motorola Semiconductor; NCR; Nestle Singapore; New Zealand Steel; Permodalan Bumiputra Sabah; Petronas; Philippine Long Distance Telephone; Reuters; Rothmans; Singapore Polytechnic; Sycip, Gorres, Velayo & Co.; Telecom Australia; TNT Skypack; US Agriculture Dept.; US Navy.
Or go to a full geographical listing of Strange Lands' organizational clients.
For further information, please email to garymfontaine@gmail.com.
To my Home Page for a more complete description of my professional activities and experience.
To my new ebook entitled Successfully Meeting the 3 Challenges of All International Assignments or as an Amazon.com Kindle edition.
We are currently doing research on "Global Swarming" -- a Self-Organization and Swarm Intelligence model of the optimization processes of multinational enterprises around the globe. If you have been involved in your career in developing organizational strategies for getting things done for such enterprises we would very much appreciate your input ... email me at garymfontaine@gmail.com.
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