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When a company decides to place personnel in an international setting, it is assuming several risks. With respect to financial risk, international work assignments are expensive to staff. In fact, given salary, benefits, international relocation fees, housing, cost of living allowances, and foreign taxes, an international post is generally significantly more expensive for a company than an equivalent domestic position. With respect to the risk of employee turnover, research has shown that 20%-30% of international work assignments fail as the employee is not able to adapt to or thrive in the foreign setting.
Even a single failed overseas assignment or an unsuccessful meeting due to miscommunication can prove to be an expensive, lost opportunity. In the case of the United States, 70% of managers receive no cross-cultural training before being posted internationally, and as a result U.S. companies annually lose more than $2.5 billion from productivity losses due to inadequate training and preparation of employees sent overseas. It makes good business sense to protect an investment in international personnel by providing superior intercultural training and support. DEVELOPMENT FOCUS INTERNATIONAL can prepare your staff for the challenge of working in a new and different culture. We can also coach employees attending foreign business meetings. Our staff is not only skilled in intercultural training, but we also have first-hand experience as expatriates so we fully understand the process of integration to new cultures.
Specifically DEVELOPMENT FOCUS INTERNATIONAL offers services in:
- Orientation to new cultures and cultural adaptation strategies for overseas personnel
- Re-adaptation for overseas personnel returning to country of origin
- On going in-country adaptation support
- Support to personnel in the receiving country on how to better work with their international counterparts
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