Clear Horizon Coaching - cross cultural training Sydney, Australia - we believe there is always a choice

Clear Horizon Coaching

Advertiser since:
26 October 2008

Organisation Name:
Clear Horizon Coaching

Online at:
http://www.clearhorizoncoaching.com
Email rebecca@clearhorizoncoaching.com

Contact:
Rebecca Wells
2/307 Simpson Street
Bondi New South Wales 2026 Sydney Australia

Telephone:
In Australia: 02 9130 1498
International: +61 2 9130 1498

Mobile/Cell:
In Australia: 0432 782 969
International: +61 432 782 969

Details:

This information has been collected from the Clear Horizon Coaching website.

Short description:

Clear Horizon Coaching - we believe there is always a choice.

Clear Horizon Coaching - we believe there is always a choice Sydney Australia

Who do we work with?

We work with corporates to:

• Improve retention of expatriate (skilled-migrant) and repatriated employees

• Reduce turnover of staff

• Improve the success rates of expatriate assignments and therefore reduce costs associated with offshore recruitment

• Ensures management better understands how to inspire best performance from multicultural teams

• Encourage higher performance levels

• Create highly engaged and inspired staff

• Improve cross cultural understanding and communication throughout the business

• Establish a more compelling and sustainable competitive advantage through creating more engaged and successful employees.

Who are our clients?

Our clients are corporates...

... with multicultural staff.

... with active offshore recruitment policies.

... that are sending talent overseas to grow business in new markets.

... that want to improve cross cultural understanding throughout the business.

... that understand the importance of supporting the expatriate spouse And private individuals...

... who want to adapt successfully to living and working in new social and professional environments.

... who desire greater clarity and direction in their lives or careers.

... who want to achieve more in life and accomplish their ambitions.

Cross Cultural Coaching Services

One-on-one coaching Diversity Management

Helping managers, of expatriate and/or multicultural staff, to get best performance out of employees.

Minimum duration: 5 x 2 hour sessions

Expatriate coaching

A two stage coaching solution to ensure high-potential expatriate (or skilled-migrant) employees adjust to new social and professional environments within the crucial first 90 days of entry.

Duration: 5 x 2 hr sessions + 3 x 2 hr sessions

Repatriate coaching

A three stage coaching solution to assist repatriating employees plan and execute a successful re-entry.

Duration: 3 blocks of 4 x 2 hour sessions

Private coaching for expatriate families

We provide personal (private) coaching suited to the spouses/partners of expatriate employees to ensure rapid cultural adaptation and greater stability in the home.

Workshops Supporting cultural acclimatisation

To assist HR managers in better understanding how to support expatriate personnel and ensure their rapid acclimatisation and focus.

Duration: one-hour seminar

Cross-cultural teams

To help multicultural teams better understand team members' cultural nuances, personal preferences and motivators whilst supporting the team to develop effective solutions to their challenges.

Duration: varies

Cross-cultural understanding

We provide cross cultural workshops to help raise awareness of the natural approaches and preferences of different cultures, to aid greater communication and cultural empathy.

Duration: half-day workshop

Insight into Asian Cultures

To improve understanding of the nuances and cornerstones of Asian cultures, enhance communication and rapport and to ensure healthier cross cultural business relations.

Duration: half-day workshop

Our Approach

The Problem

With global skills shortages reaching near epic proportions, organisations are readily looking to offshore markets to recruit the best talent.

Despite weighty costs associated with dynamic recruitment policies (often involving overseas expos), expatriate relocation, weighty expatriate financial packages and extensive training programs, organisations struggle to retain this highly-skilled and highly-valuable human resource.

Expatriate attrition is more than double that of non-expatriates[1] and 21% of expats who leave do so before the end of their contracts.[2]

In two thirds[3] of cases, expatriates' premature resignation occurs because their families are unhappy operating in new environments but a personal inability to adapt to a new work culture is almost equally prevalent.

Repatriation causes even greater problems, with over 27% of returning employees resigning within the first year after re-entry and a further 25% over the following 12 months[4].

To improve retention rates and to prevent skilled expatriates from feeling they are taking potential professional and family risks by accepting overseas assignments, it is essential that employers understand how best to support and manage them.

Our unique solution

Every individual has different preferences, motivators, approaches, needs, inspirations and goals, complicated further by their personal cultural beliefs and backgrounds.

Our flexible and uniquely tailored approach takes clients' cultural backgrounds and beliefs into account and ensures that coaching solutions are aligned with clients' deepest values and motivations ensuring sustainable results.

We firmly believe that people are naturally highly resourceful and need their working environments to nurture this ability. In turn employees remain engaged, involved and empowered by the work that they do and by the company they work for.

What is coaching?

• Coaching is 100% about helping you, the coaching client, to realise your true potential and to achieve the outcomes you want.

• We work wholly from your perspective and cultural background, understand how you are motivated, what your strengths and weaknesses might be and seek to improve both.

• We help you to explore where you are now, where you want to be and what goals and actions you need to execute to ensure that you get there.

• With coaching you will gain clarity of what is stopping you from attaining the results you desire, question your current way of thinking and overcome those barriers.

• The coaching relationship is supportive yet challenging; we provide you with honest but constructive feedback to help you realise your true capabilities.

• We take a non-judgmental standpoint and provide 100% confidentiality; only in this kind of environment will you truly flourish.

Why does our approach get results?

1. Experienced: Rebecca has worked with clients from an array of countries worldwide. Her results-focused approach supports, challenges and inspires her clients towards greater success.

2. Flexible: every individual has different needs, approaches, preferences, motivators, inspirations and goals, complicated further by different cultural beliefs and backgrounds. Rebecca's flexible and uniquely tailored approach ensures that coaching solutions are aligned with clients' deepest values and motivations ensuring sustainable results.

3. Long term: coaching is not a quick fix solution. We focus on creating key belief and behavioural changes which can take time to establish but the results are far more sustainable.

4. Empowering: coaching is so effective because solutions are ultimately arrived at by the client, greatly enhancing their motivation to succeed.

5. Supportive: effective personal development does not happen in the flash of an eye and it is essential that clients feel fully supported. Rebecca provides clients with unmitigated support throughout, in between and after their coaching programs.

6. Humour: personal development need not be staid, dull and unimaginative. Rebecca's approach to coaching is inspiring, inclusive, mind-expanding and good fun.

Useful websites

Useful links for organisations

Coaching:

International Coaching Federation
http://www.coachfederation.org

Corporate migration/visa agents:

Southern Cross Alliance
http://www.southerncrossalliance.com

Offers migration consultancy, immigration and visa services. Find company profile, services, newsletters and contact details.

Four Corners
http://www.4-corners.com

With offices also in Cape Town, South Africa and Sydney, Australia, Four Corners is an international company dedicated to assisting you in every aspect of emigration.

Practical information

Time and Date - world clock and international dialling codes
http://www.timeanddate.com

XE - international currency converter
http://www.xe.com

Social networking

Facebook
http:// www.facebook.com

Skype - free international Skype to Skype calls
http://www.skype.com

Practical: settling in

Australian Taxation Office - to register for a tax file number
http://www.ato.gov.au

Domain - property search
http://www.domain.com.au

Medicare - government funded healthcare
http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au

Social

Newcomers Network - Australia wide social club for newcomers
http://www.newcomersnetwork.com

The Sydney Expat Connection social club - regular and varied events
http://expat.meetup.com/217/

Infusion - informal cross cultural networking
http://www.infusion.org.au

Internations - Sydney multicultural social club
http://www.internations.org

Professional services

Expats.org.uk - A 'Yellow Pages' of resources for UK expats
http://www.expats.org.uk

Claudette Wadsworth - Sydney naturopath and nutritionist specialising in women's health
http://www.claudettewadsworth.com.au

About Rebecca Wells

Professional background

* Rebecca is a certified coach and dedicated cultural anthropologist who works with organisations focused on recruiting offshore, or international, talent. Rebecca's coaching and consultancy services ensure valuable talent is nurtured and retained whilst improving cross cultural understanding throughout the business. She also provides private individuals, whether they are newcomers or have lived abroad for years, with essential psychological support and personal development coaching.

* Rebecca trained at The Coaching Academy in London, Europe's largest coaching institution which is internationally recognised. She qualified with a Distinction Diploma, the highest accolade.

* She is a qualified NLP Practitioner and trained at The Institute of Human Technology in Sydney.

* Rebecca holds a BA/Hons from The University of Manchester, UK in English Literature and Philosophy.

* Having lived and worked on three different continents throughout her life – namely Asia, Europe and Australasia - Rebecca can fully empathise with the challenges and opportunities associated with living and working cross culturally.

* Prior to her coaching career, Rebecca had a strong project management background working at various levels of management in three prestigious London advertising agencies and for an online business.

* Working internationally with a number of global organisations including HSBC, Cadbury Schweppes, Kimberly Clark, Pfizer (now J&J) and BBC, Rebecca fully understands the importance of cultural empathy, flexibility and how to best communicate and thrive in culturally diverse environments.

* Rebecca's clients describe her as being "professional, knowledgable, positive, inspiring and insightful, non-judgmental, warm, understanding, principled and someone whom you can wholly trust."

Personal background

* Rebecca had a multicultural upbringing living for fifteen years in Hong Kong and has lived on three continents: Asia, Europe and Australasia.

* She has travelled extensively, to over 30 countries, and fully appreciates why so many of her clients are keen to combine their careers and interests with seeing more of the world.

* Rebecca lives by her mantra: that a fulfilled life requires that you live it. She has cage-dived with great white sharks; competed in a gruelling 5-day jungle race; climbed Mount Kinabalu; sky-dived and camped and backpacked solo throughout central and southern Africa.

Frequently Asked Questions

The following questions are covered here:

1. What is coaching?
2. What is cross cultural coaching?
3. How does coaching get results?
4. Is coaching the same as counselling, mentoring or therapy?
5. What does a coaching session involve?
6. How long does coaching last?
7. How much does coaching cost?
8. What does the free taster life coaching session entail?
9. What is your confidentiality promise?
10. What are your coaching credentials?
11. Is coaching right for me?
12. Does Clear Horizon Coaching have any guarantees?
13. What is your mission statement?
14. Tell me more about your recommendation reward scheme.
15. What are your hours of business?
16. What is an expatriate / repatriate / skilled migrant?
17. What is Skype?

If you still have a question after reading these FAQs, please contact us at any time.

1. What is coaching?

Coaching can drastically improve your performance in any given area of your life by exploring where you are now, where you want to be in the future and how to get you there.

In a basic sense, this is achieved by your coach guiding you to set challenging yet achievable goals and plan actions that will lead to an accomplishment of these goals.

Through the use of specialist questioning techniques and various coaching tools, your coach will help raise your awareness of what’s currently stopping you from attaining the results you desire and move you forwards. Fundamentally, coaching is about achieving specific, quantifiable results to help you realise your true potential.

The coaching process is unique in a number of ways:

* it is 100% non-judgmental and objective
* with the support of the coach, the client decides his/her own outcomes and actions
* clients see results after just one session - no need for long winded and costly programs
* programs are designed to inspire and energise the client into actions they enjoy
* clients stay motivated so results are highly sustainable

2. What is cross cultural coaching?

It is increasingly common for companies and individuals to operate in international environments, working with team members or clients originating from different cultural backgrounds.

We combine traditional personal performance coaching with cross cultural insight ensuring that people new to a different cultural environments adapt more effectively, multicultural teams operate more cohesively and managers of expatriate talent understand how to get best performance from those individuals.

We firmly believe that 'one size' does not fit all. Traditional 'Western' coaching methodologies and approaches are highly effective but fail to take into account cultural difference. Our approach is highly unique in that it is adaptive to all aspects of our clients' preferences, crucially including cultural nuances.

3. How does coaching gets results?

Coaching is so powerful because it works with your belief system and values. This means that all final solutions are aligned with what is most important to you, greatly enhancing your motivational drive.

Coaching is a long term solution. It focuses on creating key behavioural changes replacing bad habits that don't serve you with positive, life-changing patterns of behaviour. As with any habitual behaviour, it takes time to nurture and establish but the results are far more sustainable.

4. Is coaching the same as counselling or mentoring?

Coaching is not counselling or therapy. The fundamental difference is that a counsellor would ask you to talk about your past as a means of helping you come to terms with your current situation. In coaching, we are only interested in the present and how that can be bettered to achieve a more successful, happier future.

Coaching is not mentoring. This is a process whereby you would seek advice from a more experienced person or ‘mentor’.

This mentor would use their experience of the world to offer you advice to help solve your issue.

5. What does an actual coaching session involve?

Coaching is a very personal partnership and every coaching program is specifically tailored to each individual client. As a result, the structure and experience of a session varies for every client.

In a basic sense, sessions focus on you setting challenging yet achievable goals and planning actions that will lead to an accomplishment of those goals.

Life Coaching clients

Sessions are usually conducted over the telephone although face-to-face sessions can be arranged for Sydney-based clients. A single session lasts 60 minutes.

Corporate clients

Sessions are conducted at your place of work and are face-to-face. A single session lasts approximately 120 minutes.

6. How long does coaching last?

Life Coaching clients

In truth, the duration of any coaching is at the client’s discretion: you can choose to stop your sessions or coaching relationship with us at any time. Your Coaching Agreement will outline these parameters.

Our coaching programs are designed over a 6 week period - experience and research shows that 6 sessions is the minimum time required to make a serious impact on your goals. Some clients take a little time to get clarity on their current situation whilst others need to change beliefs that are holding them back - these changes can take time.

Clients can of course book fewer sessions but they may find it difficult to achieve all that they want to in this time. The investment per session will also be more expensive.

Corporate clients

The duration of your coaching program will be decided with the decision maker and the Coaching Contract will outline these parameters.

7. How much does coaching cost?

Our coaching programs are tailored to suit your individual needs and requirements to ensure you obtain maximum value from your coaching and make the greatest impact on your goals.

8. What does the free no-obligation life coaching session entail?

If you are serious about achieving goals that will have a positive impact on your life then coaching is for you. If you’re new to coaching and would like to experience a session for free, drop Rebecca an email to request one.

After that, if you’d like to continue to enjoy accomplishing your goals we can discuss a coaching program right for you. If you’d rather not, that’s absolutely fine; you’ll just have had a valuable experience for free.

The session itself is a taster and will take up to 60 minutes. We will discuss a relatively small challenge you are currently facing and then work on it to find ways in which it can be overcome.

9. What is your confidentiality promise?

Trust is an essential part of any coaching relationship and confidentiality is of paramount importance. Every conversation had between Rebecca and a client, whether during a session or outside of it, will remain 100% confidential.

10. What are your coaching credentials?

Rebecca is a Certified Coach and trained in London at The Coaching Academy qualifying with a Distinction Diploma, the highest accolade. The Coaching Academy is Europe’s largest coaching institution and its qualifications are internationally recognised and are endorsed by The Open College Network, The Institute of Leadership and Management and The Open and Distance Learning Quality Council.

Rebecca is also a qualified NLP Practitioner and Time-Line Therapist and trained with Gordon Young, Chairman of the Australian Board of NLP, at the Institute of Human Technology.

Rebecca also holds a BA/Hons from The University of Manchester, UK in English Literature and Philosophy.

Rebecca is a dedicated and enthusiastic cultural anthropologist, fascinated by the nuances of different cultures and the impact this has on peoples' behaviours, motivations and beliefs. One size does not fit all when it comes to personal

development and Rebecca firmly believes that an understaning of culture is essential when working to improve individual performance.

If you would like to read more about Rebecca, please visit the About Us section on this site.

11. Is coaching right for me?

The people who excel with coaching are those who want to make positive changes to their lives, are willing to be challenged by their coach and are keen to work hard to achieve what they want.

As coaching is such a personal experience, it is imperative that you feel at ease with your coach and we would recommend that you research a variety of coaches and their qualifications before making your final choice.

Should you wish to find out more about coaching or more about Rebecca, we would welcome your call.

12. Does Clear Horizon Coaching offer any guarantees?

As a coach of integrity, it would be unethical for Rebecca to say that coaching will absolutely get you the specific results you are after. Despite the fact that she will be 100% committed to ensuring your success, a great deal relies on your hard work and commitment to be the best you can possibly be.

That said, we do offer a money-back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied with the value you have obtained from your coaching within the first 2 sessions.

13. What is your mission statement?

To provide our clients with a vitally important partnership that will guide, inspire and support them towards accomplishing their most sought after goals and being the best individual they can possibly be.

14. Tell me more about the life coaching Recommendation Reward Scheme

We provide a reward scheme to our personal clients to thank them for recommending business to us:

For every person you recommend to Clear Horizon Coaching, who books a minimum of two paid-for coaching sessions, you will receive a FREE one-hour coaching session valued at AU$130!

15. What are your hours of business?

We are located in Sydney, Australia but work with clients worldwide. Coaching sessions can be conducted over the telephone and we also offer e-Coaching to life coaching clients.

16. What is an expatriate / repatriate?

In a broad sense an expatriate (or ‘expat’) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country/city other than that of their home country/city. The word comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (country, fatherland). Expatriates are also referred to as 'skilled migrants'.

A repatriate is someone who returns to their home country, having worked on an assignment overseas on a temporary basis.

17. What is Skype?

Skype is a service that enables you to make free calls from your computer to anyone else around the world who also has Skype. All you need to get started is to download the software for free from the Skype website and to buy a headset if you want one!

Contact Rebecca Wells

Landline telephone: +61 (2) 9130 1498

Mobile/Cell: +61 (0) 432 782 969

Skype* name: rebecca_wells

* Skype is perfect for international clients as your telephone calls are free.

Email: rebecca@clearhorizoncoaching.com

Post: 2/307 Simpson Street, Bondi, New South Wales 2026, Sydney, Australia

e-Newsletter:

If you'd rather be kept up to date with the latest news and tips electronically please subscribe to our free monthly e-Newsletter.

More information:

Is available on the Clear Horizon Coaching website

http://www.clearhorizoncoaching.com

See our link on the following pages:

Welcome to Sydney (logo link)
Moving to Sydney (text link)