Coaching - intercultural

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Intercultural collaborations are characterised by a high degree of complexity. Hence a logical consequence is that under circumstances a loss of efficiency can be determinde. This work processes frequently show a partial lack of transparency and an incomplete flow of information due to various intercultural, individual or/and organisational factors. However this may lead to wrong assumtions and expectations of the intercators and therewith to misdirected conclusions.

Coaching or Training ?

Intercultural trainings and/or seminars provide general or country specific knowledge or target to an increase of intercultural sensibility for a group of participants. In contrast intercultural Coaching focuses on accompanying the individuals specific process and to provide the international working individual with support. According to this intercultural Coaching emphasises the focus strongly to the requirements of the targeted group and can not be standardised: Each single situation and interaction has its own individual context and history. It is a part of the target agreement as a basis of the relationsship between coach and client that it is the coach's task to analyse the spontaneous dynamics, the meanings and consequences of those situations.

Process

Coaching mediates between the interfaces of the individual, its functions and the organisation: intercultural Coaching focusses primarily on the individual and its options for taking action within the described frame. "Culture" is both the scenic background and the variable overall context where the interactions of the involved persons take place.

Objective

The main objective of intercultural Coaching is to provide the individual with the capability to act efficient within the intercultural context and to champion the current and future international worksituations. The development of intercultural competence is the base for successful international (business) behaviour and stands therefore in the focus of the intercultural Coaching process.