What is coaching?
In general terms, the coaching process aids overall personal development and improves professional performance. Coaching is a positive and forward looking method, based on powerful questioning, observation sharing and mirroring, that helps individuals to deals with personal and professional challenges.
As a coach, I use 'the coaching method' as a tool to support my clients in discovering new points of view on certain embedded patterns of thought and behavior. Those points of view enable them to devise accountable strategies to tackle specific challenges.
Coaching is always based on the client's individual resources and experiences, and strengthens their problem solving skills.
An intercultural approach
Meaningful communication goes beyond simply exchanging words; it involves active listening, understanding perspectives, and engaging in a way that fosters connections and understanding. We cannot ignore the cultural component in this. Moreover and beyond communication, culture has an impact on all human activity. On how we view time, think, organize ourselves, define our purpose, relate to power, and so on.
What is intercultural coaching?
Intercultural, or cross-cultural coaching recognizes and addresses the challenges and opportunities presented by cultural differences and in interactions and communications.
Its goal is to help individuals and organizations develop the skills and mindset necessary to effectively interact with people from different cultural backgrounds. Fostering understanding, respect and collaboration.
The focus
As intercultural coach I focus on raising awareness, improving communication skills, developing strategies for conflict resolution and on fostering empathy and understanding for different cultural perspectives and experiences. The insights you gain will help you prosper on a personal, as well as professional level.
How can intercultural coaching benefit you as an expat?
- You will have stronger and more effective relationships with colleagues, clients and stakeholders from diverse cultural backgrounds
- You will experience more productive communications across cultures
- There will be increased collaboration and teamwork in diverse environments
- You acquire enhanced problem-solving skills by considering diverse cultural perspectives
- You will contribute to a more inclusive and diverse organizational culture