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Global Human Resource Coaching Circle

Focus

Are you experiencing hiring challenges in China or India? Are cultural differences leading to miscommunication, misunderstandings, mistrust, missed deadlines? Do these lead to frustration, longer hours, lower productivity, lost customers, labor law violations, or low retention of valued employees? What does it take to be an effective HR professional in an increasingly global business environment?

Who Should Participate

Human Resource managers and directors with global responsibilities; international mobility managers.

Program Length

Coaching circles meet by phone for 4 months (or in person with local participants) twice monthly for one hour.

Outcomes

• Understand the cultures of your clients, colleagues and contractors around the world to gain their collaboration on goals, strategies and organizational change initiatives.
• Build relationships with your global HR team in other countries and with your client group to have a stronger HR community or team spirit.
• Model a global mindset to influence managers and help prevent costly cross-cultural blunders in negotiations, marketing, hiring and expatriate selection.
• Apply your learning to carrying out the key roles of HR global leaders as corporate business partners providing value to your customer base.

How the Global HR Coaching Circle Works:

1. Program content is customized to your interests, needs, and learning goals.
2. You will join 6-7 other Human Resource managers and directors with similar interests in bi-weekly, one-hour coaching tele-sessions.
3. The coach will present a few intercultural concepts and models so that everyone has a common set of tools with which to discuss work issues and engage in coaching conversations.
4. Coaching sessions will have both guided discussion and spontaneous coaching.
5. Expert guest speakers will present on specific cultures of the group’s choice.
6. The action learning method &ndash on-the-job fieldwork between sessions – helps you build cultural competence in your leadership.
7. You make desired shifts that allow for increasing progress toward your learning goals and enhancing your work relationships and effectiveness as a global leader.

“If there was ever a time to underscore the importance of HR, it has arrived. And sadly, if there was ever a time to see how few companies get HR right, it has arrived, too. If their company is in a crisis – or their own career – perhaps they’ve at last seen the light. HR matters enormously in the good times. It defines you in the bad.” (Jack Welch., The Welch Way, BusinessWeek, March 23 & 30, 2009)