For Organizations
Embark on a new era of expatriate support, experience, and success.
Unlocking the full potential of international assignments is crucial for any successful global business. That’s why organizations worldwide invest heavily in global mobility – and that’s why Positive Expatriation is here for you! Organizations and individuals are gaining long-term advantages from their Positive Expatriation training as they develop skills that ensure success and make all the difference in today’s world.
Positive Expatriation goes beyond traditional international HR management by focusing on individual factors, such as wellbeing, resilience, and mindset. We use concepts, tests and exercises based on proven research and industry best practices, that make all the difference in maximizing assignment success. As we know, “positive expats” not only feel better – they also perform better and fully exploit the benefits of an international assignment.
You might be an organization striving for excellence, promoting employee engagement and mental health, demonstrating social responsibility and sustainability, or simply maximizing global assignment and business success.
Positive Expatriation is here to guide you as we redefine the boundaries of expatriate management. Together, we reach new heights in international business. Join us on this overdue transformation to unleash the full potential of your global workforce and business!
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Our Services
We offer a new and modern way of expatriation support. It is for your expatriates and their partners or family members – the hidden champions of every international assignment. Wherever your employees are going, empower them with the support they need from us to enhance their experience and performance.
Including Positive Expatriation as a part of your company’s support for individuals and their families reduces failure rates and ensures expatriates lead a fulfilling and happy life – crucial for any successful international assignment. Positive Expatriation is also for upskilling key parts of your organizations like HR, host organization or leadership as companies have a serious impact on expats’ lives abroad, too.
Our services and products help people have better experiences when living abroad, exploit the full potential of their stay abroad and making both individuals and organizations more successful.
1. Training for Expatriates
Positive Expatriation equips your expatriates with skills which are crucial for a successful and fulfilling time abroad. By training them on how to promote expatriate wellbeing, build expatriate resilience, and develop an expatriate growth mindset, they are able to turn any challenges of work and life abroad into opportunities for personal and professional growth.
What:
In this course (future or present) expatriates learn to become the creator of a successful and meaningful life abroad by diving into Positive Psychology findings and practice. We discover evidence based key drivers for wellbeing and growth in a new culture and bring them into daily routine abroad. Thereby, a totally new field of expatriation support and management is opened.
All your expatriates dare introduced to the following key concepts of positive expatriation and learn how to apply them into personal practice before, during and after an international assignment:
- the elements of wellbeing
- promoting positive emotions during expatriation
- building and maintaining trustful, positive relationships
- identifying and using strengths
- encouraging a growth mindset
- increasing resilience
- finding and developing a fulfilling identity abroad and more!
Why
Becoming a fulfilled and successful expatriate is a very complex and often underestimated adventure. By applying Positive Psychology findings, expatriates learn to cope with challenges, to see the stay abroad as an opportunity to grow and to fully exploit the potential of their international assignment. Expatriates learn how to impact the success of their expatriation despite all the external stressors. The novel and evidence-based knowledge of Positive Expatriation enriches fundamentally their work and life abroad: from surviving to thriving!
How
Two full days (4 x 0.5 days) of training with diverse and modern teaching methods ensure sustainable and interactive learning and practice transfer. In addition to exercises, case studies, coaching and group work, mini lectures are used to deliver basic knowledge of Positive Psychology in the context of expatriation. We also work with special Put into Practice elements, which offer the opportunity to deepen basic knowledge on positive expatriation for day-to-day life abroad.
Participant’s voice:
Positive Expatriation helped me to understand key drivers of a successful expatriation that I had never thought about. I had no idea that I could change my perspective on cultural differences and become stronger abroad day by day. I wished I had strenghten my resilience already before my expatriation. I have learnt so much that has changed positively my life forever!
Next Dates:
September 03/04/17/18 2024 Online
November 05/06/18/19 2024 Online
Fees: 2.100 € + VAT per participant (maximum 16 seats)
Booking: Reserve Your Spot >
2. Training For Partners or Families
Although expatriates are typically hesitant to ask for support for their loved ones, this is exactly what they need and appreciate. We have evidence that supporting expatriate partners and families pay off for companies, because expatriates with content and well-adjusted partners and families are more productive and focused on their work – as well as more likely to complete their assignments.
What
In this course (future or present) expatriate partners or family members learn to become the creator of a successful and meaningful life abroad by diving into Positive Psychology findings and practice. We discover evidence based key drivers for wellbeing in a new culture (such as a growth mindset, positive emotions, resilience, engagement etc.) and bring them into daily routine of expatriate partners and families.
All participants are introduced to the following key concepts of positive expatriation and learn how to apply them into personal practice before, during and after an international assignment:
- the elements of wellbeing
- promoting positive emotions during expatriation
- building and maintaining trustful, positive relationships
- identifying and using strengths
- encouraging a growth mindset
- increasing resilience
- finding and developing a fulfilling identity abroad and more!
Why
Becoming a fulfilled and successful expatriate partner or family is a very complex and often underestimated adventure. By applying Positive Psychology findings, expatriate partners or family members learn to cope with challenges, to see the stay abroad as a opportunity to grow and to fully exploit the potential of their time abroad. The training sessions help them to live authentically in a new culture. Positive Expatriation moves them from surviving to thriving!
How
Two full days (4 x 0.5 days) of training with diverse and modern teaching methods ensure sustainable and interactive learning and practice transfer. In addition to exercises, case studies, coaching and group work, mini lectures are used to deliver basic knowledge of Positive Psychology in the context of expatriation. We also work with special Put into Practice elements, which offer the opportunity to deepen basic knowledge on positive expatriation for day-to-day life abroad.
Participant’s voice:
I didn’t know what to expect when I first reached out to Positive Expatriation. But honestly, it was a game changer: My family and I learned to see our stay abroad from a completely different perspective and it was so much fun to do it as a family. For the first time, we were able to see the bigger picture and to realize what a privilege it is to be a Positive Expat family.
Next Dates:
October 02/03/16/17 2024 Online
December 02/03/16/17 2024 Online
Fees: 2.100 € + VAT per participant (maximum 16 seats)
Booking: Reserve Your Spot >
3. Training For HR
You as HR has a huge impact on making expatriates succesful abroad. By looking into your company’s responsibilities, processes and practices, Positive Expatriation supports you in proactively shaping your expatriates’ experiences and journeys.
What
In this course HR representatives from all levels discover new opportunities and chances for companies to proactively manage the success of expatriations. We explore together the key drivers of expatriate success (such as a wellbing, resilience, engagement etc.) and bring them into HR routine. All participants are introduced to the following key concepts of positive expatriation and learn how to apply them into company’s daily HR work:
- the elements and importance of expatriate wellbeing
- promoting positive emotions during expatriation
- building and maintaining trustful, positive relationships
- encouraging a growth mindset and more!
Why
The traditional way of managing expatriations is not very much focused on the expatriate itself, yet. By applying positive psychology findings to expatriations, HR gets multiple new and valuable insights and perspectives to make use of the full potential of international assignments and minimizing expatriate failure. The sessions offer at the same time insights for a modern Human Resource Management in which employee’s well-being is key.
How
In total two full days of training in which diverse and modern teaching methods ensure sustainable and interactive learning as well as practice transfer. In addition to exercises, case studies, coaching and group work, mini lectures are used to deliver basic knowledge of positive psychology in the context of expatriation. We also work with special Put into Practice elements, which offer the opportunity to deepen basic knowledge on positive expatriation for day-to-day life abroad.
Participant’s voice:
This course opened my eyes to a new field of expatriation management. Although I am dealing with expatriates on a daily base since more than 10 years, I was not aware of how crucial the wellbeing of expatriates is for a successful expatriation. The Follow-Up practicing session was very helpful for a solid practice transfer and the anchoring of what has been learned.#
Next Dates:
September 10/11/24/25 2024 Online
November 12/13/26/27 2024 Online
Fees: 2.100 € + VAT per participant (maximum 16 seats)
Booking: Reserve Your Spot >
4. Training For Global Leaders
Leadership is complex and multifaceted. It can make or break the success of international employees. Positive Expatriation assists global leaders by drawing their awareness to positive leadership in an international context.
Positive Expatriation for leaders enables them to create a positive environment that helps international employees and teams to achieve their highest potential, flourish at work, experience elevating energy, and achieve new levels of effectiveness. Positive leadership cares about the well-being of the individual and the organization and it focuses on strengths and recognition. It is about creating positive work conditions for international employees and building relationships through teamwork.
It is amazing how much new ideas I took with my from these in total two days training. The power of positiviy is amazing and so easy to implement in day to day interactions with employees, even if they are spread all over the world. I am thankful that Positive Expatriation not only makes the world of expats and expat partners/familys butter but also offers extraordinay support for organizations.
Next Dates:
October 07/08/21/22 2024 Online
December 05/06/19/20 2024 Online
Fees: 2.100 € + VAT per participant (maximum 16 seats)
Booking: Reserve Your Spot >
5. Keynote Speaking
We love to share our knowledge changing the world of international assignments. Our offer includes a variety of impulse speeches.
Here are some examples of our work:
- The power of wellbeing for successful international assignments
- The expatriate mindset: With the right mindset to international assignment success
- How to build expatriate resilience?
- Onboarding and retention of foreign employees: overcoming the shortage of skilled labor
- Global Positive Leadership
- Leading resilient international teams to success
Please do not hesitate to contact us for more details. Send us an email >
6. Custom Workshops
We also offer customized seminars and workshops for your workforce.
Expatriate conferences or international networking and leadership events are a perfect place to meet us. We can also runa a Positive Expatriation workshop with your host country organizations, or with your global mobilty team!
Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss any further questions you may have. Send us an email >
7. Consulting
In addition we are glad to provide our professional and expert advice to you whenever it is needed.
As experts in the industry with altogether over 40 years of experience, we know just what it takes to make sure you’re on the right track. If you feel like you may need some additional support or are just curious about ways we may be able to help, contact us today for an introductory conversation on how we can best support you on your journey.
Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss any further questions you may have. Send us an email >
Benefits of Positive Expatriation
Organizations prioritizing and valuing the wellbeing, resilience and mindset of their employees abroad have a significant competitive advantage! They not only experience greater expatriate job satisfaction, and engagement but also realize improved expatriate productivity and performance, reduced early termination and turnover in international assignments. Positive Expatriates make a difference in business and are a competitive advantage in today’s dynamic business landscape.
Organizations We Support:
- Large multinational corporations
- International small- and medium-sized companies
- Governmental and public institutions operating internationally
- Relocation Companies
- Intercultural training and coaching companies:
We train intercultural trainers and coaches in Positive Expatriation and empower them to integrate insights into their products making their sessions more impactful and successful.
- Educational institutions & international schools:
(International) Schools help expat children to flourish. We offer training programs in Positive Expatriation specifically designed for teachers, students, and schools to learn how to create a positive environment in which every student feels welcome and happy to thrive. Wellbeing and performance are strongly linked with each other in every learning context.
What You Can Expect
For you and your organization, there are many ways to leverage the benefits of Positive Expatriation. Trust our offers with wide-ranging benefits such as:
Enhanced expatriate performance
Smoother international transitions
Higher expatriate engagement, commitment, and satisfaction
Happy, healthy and resilient expatriates, expatriate partners and families
Improved cross-cultural adaptability, teamwork and problem-solving
Decreased failure rate among expatriates (during and after expatriation)
Our Clients Love Our Work
“I see Positive Expatriation as effective complement to every intercultural training we offer to our expatriates. It is proven that people with the right intercultural mindset, who feel well and are resilient can handle cultural differences better and faster. And as a side effect, we not only have more successful expats, but also happier expats.”
“We are so glad that we found Positive Expatriation. It’s part of our company policies now that we invite every expat partner and expat children to join Positive Expatriation training before, at the beginning and during the time abroad. In expatriation management, we touch very deep the private life of your employees. Thus, every family member deserves professional support.”
“I would have liked to have this attitude already in my 1st and 2nd assignment. I am now in my 3rd assignment and experience it as much more fulfilling, although in the beginning many things did not go according to plan. But now I now how to handel challenges and to recover from setbacks. Thanks to Positive Expatriation. “