Cross-Cultural Coaching

The key to success in a multicultural environment lies in the ability to understand your own intercultural skills, rather than simply trying to mimic supposedly “good” attitudes. Particularly for expatriate candidates, we suggest discovering your true relationship with interculturality, without judgment, and how to live abroad not as “should” but as “you can based on your own personality.”

Our intercultural coaching offers a realistic and practical approach, not just good feelings.

Our approach to intercultural coaching aims to foster a deep understanding of oneself, others, and the intercultural environment in which we operate. We emphasize the importance of developing intercultural awareness to realize our full potential as individuals capable of navigating effectively and harmoniously in multicultural contexts.

Our approach is based on a combination of concepts from anthropology, sociology, and psychology as well as a variety of recognized tests. We offer personalized guidance that allows participants to explore their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that impact their intercultural relationships.

We help our clients understand their own motivations and develop the necessary skills to live with others, participate in, or effectively lead intercultural teams.

The Program

• • Session 1: Introduction.
    • Part 1: Understanding Interculturality.
      • Introduction and principles of our intercultural coaching.
      • Presentation of concepts.
    • Part 2: Preparation for the Next Session.
      • Presentation of cultural dimensions according to Geert Hofstede.
      • Guided administration of our cultural dimensions test according to G. Hofstede.
  • Session 2: Exploring Your Cultural Preferences, Text Exploitation.
    • Your power distance: relationship to power, authority, and hierarchy.
    • Your relation to group: personal performance, individualism, holism.
    • Your masculinity: leadership and preference for competition or cooperation.
    • Your uncertainty avoidance: attitude toward change and ambiguity.
    • Your long-term orientation: traditionalism vs. openness to the future.
  • Session 3: “Your” Culture vs. “Their” Culture
    • Part 1: Clash of Cultures and Subcultures.
      • High and low culture levels, culture levels according to Schein, and culture layers according to Hofstede.
      • International comparisons: which countries does your profile “fit” best with?
    • Part 2: The Impact of Your Own Personality.
      • Introduction to personality concept and personality traits.
      • Guided administration of the Big 5 personality test.
  • Session 4: How Does Your Personality Impact Your Intercultural Relationship?
    • Part 1: Exploiting Test Results.
      • Openness to experience: understanding your relationship to the ideas and customs of others, your curiosity, your approach to intercultural learning and understanding.
      • Conscientiousness: organizing your intercultural interactions and considering the norms and values of other cultures while being aware of your own cultural and emotional biases.
      • Extraversion: assessing your ability for intercultural communication and active listening to understand others.
      • Agreeableness: understanding your tolerance levels and cooperation.
      • Neuroticism: understanding your emotional management, resilience, and implementing adaptation strategies.
    • Part 2: International Comparisons.
      • Refining your response to “which countries does your profile fit best with?”
      • What to do if your profile doesn’t match my expatriation country? (Answer: consider Jung’s theory of psychological preferences).
  • Session 5: Using Your Strengths to Adapt More Easily.
    • Part 1: Our Jung Psychological Preferences Test.
      • Introduction to Jung’s theory of psychological preferences.
      • Using your preferences to overcome your intercultural limits.
      • Administration and validation of the preferences test.
    • Part 2: Exploiting the Test and Exploring the Type.
      • Extraversion/Introversion: your preferred communication and social interaction styles.
      • Sensing/Intuition: understanding explicit and underlying communication issues and modes.
      • Thinking/Feeling: empathy and sympathy, acceptance and respect for values, conflict management.
      • Judging/Perceiving: time management and organization.
• Session 6: Methods and Tools to Optimize Your Integration
  • • The Map, Bridge & Integration approach.
    • Best Practices.
    • Self-awareness and self-consciousness.
    • Establishing your action plan.
    • The virtuous circle.