In an increasingly global world, the best professional opportunities are often outside our comfort zone. Outside our country, possibly outside our continent, in languages that we do not always master and in different cultural contexts.
Changing countries and integrating into a different sociocultural reality brings many challenges, but also many opportunities for growth and development of our skills and competencies.
Challenges for the professional or executive, but also for his or her family and for the professional integration of his or her colleague, when he or she wishes to remain active in a professional context.
Many companies, mainly multinationals, have programmes that support the cultural and professional integration of the expatriate, but also that of their colleagues, with mentoring and coaching programmes.
These programmes are excellent and contribute to a faster and more successful integration for all family members.
They can have several contexts, here are the most common:
- Cultural integration
- Professional integration in an organisation
- Development of an entrepreneurship project
- Active volunteering
At the request of organisations or individuals, I have worked with expatriates or their colleagues so that their social and professional integration in Panama is successful and contributes positively to their personal and professional well-being and family well-being.
Change processes provide an excellent opportunity to reflect on our purpose, to connect with our essence and our deepest desires, to develop the visions we want for our life, in a “positive self and in action”. With these visions, possibilities are generated through a process of brainstorming that supports the creation of a personalised action plan.
It is a reflection integrated with the various dimensions of the human being, which frees the heart and mind in a creative and empowering process.
Integration or professional development programmes are adapted to the needs of each client, creating spaces to reflect on beliefs, personal brand, construction of support networks and opportunities for networking, which are integrated into a professional or career redesign.
The tools are integrated into the action plan according to the objectives, in a context analysis, with the incorporation of best practices in the creation and communication of value through CV, social networks, among others.
From session to session, clients integrate their learning, build successful strategies, recognise their achievements and become empowered by their objectives and visions.
As a Professional Coach I facilitate processes and use tools in accordance with the objectives of each client’s process and adapted to the objectives defined in each session.
My personal experience as a fellow expatriate, who grew up and integrated learning in a new country, as a wife and mother, as a professional in local organisations, as a member of trade associations and as an entrepreneur who develops her own business, supports establishing trust and creating together.
We are not defined by circumstances or challenges, we are defined by our responses and our actions, in a continuous learning process.
Fatima Ribeiro
If you identify yourself or if you consider that your organisation can develop coaching programmes to support the integration of expatriate collaborators and their colleagues, find my contacts here here.