Cross-cultural Coaching
Coaching
Coaching is a form of confidential dialogue in which the Coachee's concrete objectives and strategies for realization are jointly elaborated. The way of coaching - either working with task-focussed topics or rather with psychological elements - will depend on the objectives you want to achieve using coaching.

Since China Consultancy's coaching is systemic and process- oriented (see: References / Trainers, Consultants and Coaches) it is suitable for a variety of topics related to individual and cross-cultural cooperation. For example: difficulties concerning work in cross-cultural teams, in cross-cultural conflicts, in situations of professional or private radical change or in times of crisis.

Coaching may require continuous support over a given period of time. To enable this we will be in China on a regular basis, ready to support you and individual members of your team (see: Coaching Across Cultures) . You are welcome to enquire for our availability in China.

Team Coaching
"Has everybody around here gone completely mad?!"

Teams are like marriages: a range of factors hold the group together, ensure functionable cooperation, whereas another range of factors drive the group apart and continually keep throwing little spanners in the works. How about the cooperation of your team?!

Well-aimed team development measures are able to enhance your team's cooperation to a large extend, especially in cross-cultural contexts (see: Team Building and Development) . If you have difficulties within your team or if you are responsible for a problematic team, coaching will contribute to individual clarification and change of static constellations.

What is my postion in the team, how do others perceive me and my work and why is it often the same area of cooperation from which problems arise? How can I enshure smoother developments in the future? In how far do I contribute to existing difficulties, what is the contribution of other people within or outside the team and how am I to deal with their influence?

Talk to us! China Consultancy's team coaching is offered as individual as well as group coaching.

Conflict-Coaching
"Ok, that's enough - I have had it!"

In conflicts the channels of perception of the conflicting parties narrow, alternative patterns of behaviour and communication are no longer adequately used. In conflict mangagement both sides jointly work on their differences with the support of a conflict manager or mediator (see: Conflict Management) .

If a joint  conflict resolution with the partner is not possible or not wanted, conflict coaching offers the possibility to work on adequate personal strategies for dealing with the conflict. In this way you can relieve the strain and regain the freedom to give new momentum in seemingly stuck situations.

China Consultancy's conflict coaching is offered as individual or small-group coaching.

Coaching in Situations of radical Change
"Damned, I really don't know if I'm coming or going!"

Do you know that scenario? In professional and | or private situations of radical change, suddenly everyhthing seems to be more than you can cope with. You can do whatever you want - nonetheless, people around you react with lack of understanding, unhappyness, pressure and discontent.

Coaching in situations of radical change helps to more clearly sort out your visions, objectives, priorities and limits and makes shure you'll act accordingly. In a joint dialogue you'll receive the support needed to calmly and securely steer your boat through rough weather.

China Consultancy's coaching in situations of professional and private radical change is offered as individual coaching.

Crisis and Coaching
"I am damned frustrated, I just don't know how to carry on!"

Situations of crisis are marked by the fact that long-established and proven patterns of behaviour are no longer effective to their ends, undermining the personal feeling of identity. But long-proven patterns of behaviour in important areas of one's life do not have to be the best patterns of behaviour any longer. Things change! So "going on like before"  often leads to frustration, enstrangement and self-doubt.

Coaching in a situation of crisis helps to track down blocking patterns of behaviour and communication and supports you in establishing alternative approaches. Ways are opened to calm life's waves down and enable you to take decisions as the captain of your life.

China Consultancy's coaching in times of crisis is offered as individual coaching.

On-the-spot Coaching | Training*plus
"Ok. But what I'm still racking my brains over now is ..."

In addition to our cross-cultural trainings, China Consultancy offers synchronized on-the-spot coaching within the framework of Training*plus. As a rule, synchronized coachings are carried out 3-5 months after beginning work in the target region. They offer the chance to discuss the experiences made in the target region, to bring up difficulties and jointly work on approaches to solution.

In addition to our cross-cultural trainings, China Consultancy offers synchronized on-the-spot coaching within the framework of Training*plus. As a rule, synchronized coachings are carried out 3-5 months after beginning work in the target region. They offer the chance to discuss the experiences made in the target region, to bring up difficulties and jointly work on approaches to solution.

The combination of cross-cultural training and synchronized coaching in China Consultanciy's concept of Training*plus has the advantage ...

to achieve higher effectivity of the participants in the target region to have the chance at an early stage to recognize pos- sible misdevelopments and take counter-measures to avoid burn-out syndrom, frustration and denial behaviour on the side of staff of staff's knowledge of further support after a phase of familiarization in the new environment and trial and error.

China Consultancy's synchronized coaching and coaching within the framework of Training*plus is offered as individual as well as small- group coaching in Europe and China (see: Coaching Across Cultures) . You are welcome to enquire for our availability.

Returnee's Coaching
"Hey cool, now I am back home again. Was it worth the while?"

Experience shows that the transition from a post abroad back to your home environment is often more difficult to make than initially anticipated. This is not only due to the so called "returnee's shock" but lies within the expectations that the returnee will integrate him- or herself swiftly to the old and known environment: after all, you are dealing with your home country again!

Nontheless, this renewed challenge for (re-)adaptation often takes place under considerable time pressure: after just having departed from the country once so new to you, having organized your family and yourself, soon private and professionel new challenges are calling on you in your home country. Hereby dealing with what you experienced abroad is put off, diffusely postponed without a phase of conscious exploration and reflection.

In order to enable a conscious reflection of the experiences made abroad and to explore and secure newly acquired private and professional skills we offer one- to one-and-a-half-days returnee's coaching worldwide.

China Consultancy's returnee's coaching is offered as individual as well as small-group coaching.