Making Holland Your Home

Making Holland Your Second Home

Objective

The objective of DoSo! Coaching & Counseling is to assist international companies by helping their expat employees and their partners to feel at home during the critical settling in period and stay in the Netherlands (or elsewhere in the world). In her approach DoSo! Coaching & Counseling primarily focuses on the accompanying partner. Stress resulting from a long lasting feeling of dissatisfaction of the partner can have a negative effect on the whole family and on the expat employee in particular leading to less efficiency at work and in some cases to the early termination of the international assignment, or even break-up of the family.

The Global Relocation Trends Survey from 2011 showed that the most common reasons for turning down assignments, were family concerns, partner’s career, and employee career aspirations. Additionally, when asked which family challenges were critical to companies, respondents mentioned family adjustment, children’s education, and partner resistance as the top three reasons.

Solution

Through the program “Making Holland Your Second Home” DoSo! Coaching & Counseling helps to empower expat spouses to have a fulfilled life during their stay in the Netherlands as well when returning to their home country. As a result of the program they will experience their live in the Netherlands as an exciting adventure full of opportunities rather than a hurdle that one has to overcome. A happy person is radiating happiness on her children and partner. A happy partner (employee) is relaxed and has time and energy to focus on the international assignment without having a feeling of guilt. This leads to a productive employee on the work-floor and a higher chance on a successful completion of the assignment. Everyone benefits from it.

Thanks to this program an expat will:

Better understand the cultural differences between the Dutch culture and his/her own culture and how the Dutch culture works in practice. As a result he/she will be able to deal in a better way with the cultural differences, which will make himself/herself feeling more at ease and will make his/her life easier;

Understand the process that he/she is going through while settling. Living in a new environment can cause a major shift in the perception of identity due to new roles and responsibilities;

Find out how does he/she want to live her life while staying in the Netherlands: Find out new life priorities and values, decide to find a new job or role while abroad, and re-discover existing passions and fulfill dreams.

For more information about the program and prices please call +31 (0) 6 13 253 655 or email to info@dosocoaching.com.

Inter-cultural Trainings / Workshops

Next to individual sessions DoSo! offers also the following in-company workshops / trainings for both employees and their partners.

Workshops / Training
Workshop	Main topic	Duration
Living in the Netherlands. How to manage a culture shock?	- Differences and commonalities between the cultures - Dealing with the Dutchies & Dutch culture - Your culture & Dutch culture: differences & similarities	Full day or 2 x half a day
My New Self. Identity in transition	Understanding how move abroad affects your identity and get back sense of direction in life.	Full day or 2 x half a day

SOLUTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES

Solution for the expat employee and / or partner

Individual Expat Coaching

Thanks to expat coaching you will:

Learn how the move abroad affects your identity
Recognize the cultural differences and understand how they affect you
Learn how to manage the culture shock
Set up new goals in your life
Get back the sense of direction in your (new) life

Solution for expat employee

Individual Job Coaching in International Environment

International employees are faced not only with a new job but also with a new culture of the company and country. In order to make a transition and start of the new job smoother DoSo! offers individual Job Coaching. The following aspects are included:

Assessment of the core competences required to fulfill the job
Improvement on the competences required to fulfill the job for example:

Leadership skills
Communication skills
Entrepreneurship skills
Client focus

Working in an international team / company
Understanding the new culture

Solution for expat partner (spouse)

Individual (Portable) Career Coaching

Most of the expat partners had to stop their careers. After settling in they want to go further with their career. DoSo! offers a tailor-made program to help to fulfill the professional ambitions of the spouses. The program consists of:

Biography - understanding your past career choices
Self-analysis: values and beliefs
Motivation: passions & life mission
My strengths: Top talents & skills
Updating the CV and cover letter to Dutch standards
Preparation for the interview in the Netherlands
Exploration phase: (creating ideas, networking, etc.)
Making first decisions (sending CV, interviews)
Getting the job you want

Depending on individual needs the following programs are available

Program	Number of sessions	Duration
Intensive	12 x 60 minutes	6 months (sessions every 2 weeks)
Basic	8 x 60 minutes	2 - 3 months (session every 2 weeks)
Quick - fix	6 x 60 minutes	6 weeks (session every week)