Example of powerful tools
Visualizing the future with powerful questions
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Environment
Where are your constraints/opportunities?
Where/when do things happen?
What hinders/supports you about your environment?
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Behaviors
What specific behaviors do you have that support you?
What behaviors do not support you?
Is there anything to add about behaviors?
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Capabilities/skills
What resources do you have?
What strategies do you have?
What are you able to do?
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Values and Beliefs
What motivates you?
What do you believe about others?
What is important to you?
What is your convictions and why?
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Identity
Who are you?
What is your purpose or mission?
Why are you here?
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Vision
How do you relate to the future?
Where are you heading?
What do you see or feel about the future?
Shifting into accountability with powerful questions
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Feeling angry, resentful or fearful:
How can you choose ease and confidence instead?
How best can you support the result you want?
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Feeling bottled up and stressed, with flat energy:
What emotions haven’t you let yourself feel?
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Wishing to do something or stop doing something and get the deserved credit:
How can you take the responsibility for making this change yourself?
Creating awareness and shifting perspectives with the S.W.O.T analysis
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Global understanding : Internal vs. External
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Internal understanding : Strengths vs. Weaknesses
Strengths
What personal qualities do you possess?
What do you do well in your life?
What is your biggest achievement in your life?
What do you enjoy doing in your life?
Weaknesses
What are you bad in?
What can you improve?
What are your personal flows?
What tasks do you usually avoid doing?
What are the roots of your failures?
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External understanding : Opportunities vs. Threats
Opportunities
What trends do you see in your life?
How can you meet other person like you?
How about your surrounding?
Who can support you in achieving your goal?
Threats
What obstacles do you face?
Who/what may get in your way?
Conclusion
By integrating the cultural dimension, coaching will unleash more human potential to achieve meaningful objectives. Rosinski
The aim of this paper was to understand how critical the adapting process in a new environment and how important its cultural dimension could be.
It is now obvious that it can affect personally, socially and professionally expatriates during their assignments abroad.
Also, by introducing specific power tools, this paper presented the idea that coaching would be the perfect support for the expatriates.
Coaching would bring awareness about the challenges to come and support expatriates in overcoming them. It would turn all these challenges into a rewarding and meaningful growing experience.
References
Bibliography:
Edward T. Hall, Beyond culture
L. Robert Kohls, Survival Kit for Overseas Living
Oberg, K. (1960). Culture shock: Adjustment to new cultural environment.
HR-Guide.com (2007) “Human Resources Internet Guide.
Rosinski, Coaching Across Cultures, Nicholas Brealey, London
Jan Selmer “International Adjustment of Business Expatriates: The Impact of Age, Gender And Marital Status” Journal of School of Business Research Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Trompenaars, Riding the waves of Cultures: Understanding cultural diversity in business, Nicholas Brealey, London
Gillian Jones and Ro Goreli, 50 Tops Tools for Coaching
Jonathan Passmore, Diversity in Coaching, 2nd edition
Websites:
http://iwasanexpatwife.com/2012/08/06/u-curve-maybe-not/
http://books.google.co.th/books?id=BETFzSbrPhkC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=expatriation+curve&source=bl&ots=0h5tDHyO8j&sig=sofH4ivzZgDtZvx1gFhAXRskOWk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8vRWVKXcCo2WuASLk4CAAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=expatriation%20curve&f=false
http://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2011/10/28/expatriate-adjustment-is-there-always-a-‘honeymoon’/#sthash.Ex8EqOkJ.dpbs
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CFoQFjAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Firs.ub.rug.nl%2Fdbi%2F43789b590f41c&ei=8vRWVKXcCo2WuASLk4CAAg&usg=AFQjCNGfx3oFArATGkZerRZrw-XveOsauA&sig2=5h70VvcSEaCY0nTomvr4xw&bvm=bv.78677474,d.c2E