Your costs
The business costs of expatriation and relocation are huge, demanding up to 3 times the yearly salary of the expatriate (~ $ 300,000 a year or more). Thorough preparation is key for this money to be well invested.
Our objectives
IBI's Risk Management Approach will
- support your expatriates in adjusting and performing effectively abroad
- support you in reducing the risks of early returns
- support your expatriates to continue being effective when moving on.
The process
A karate expert can break a brick only if she focuses on a point behind the brick. Your expatriates will succeed only if they focus on what they want to have achieved after the assignment.
We combine our Risk Profile Analysis with a longterm perspective by inviting the expatriate to think ahead: Which role do I want this experience to have in my life? Where do I want to be after my return home?
Repatriation is part of the plan from the start - another step in Moving On. Expectations about career moves upon return can be managed if the expatriate sees the assignment both as an exciting step in an international career and as an opportunity for growth that goes beyond promotion upon return.
IBI's Longterm Perspective
IBI's Longterm perspective includes the following phases
| Pre-departure phase | | What needs to happen for us to succeed? |
| First six months | | How do we manage this challenge? |
| High time | | Top performance and effectiveness, enjoying the new environment |
| Last six months | | We're about to move on. What do we need to do? |
| Moving on | | How can my company profit from my knowledge and experience? |
| Five years after | | Where do I want to be as a result of this assignment? |
In each of these phases, your expatriates and their partners must maintain a sense of control, of being in charge. With our Risk Profile Analysis, they can identify the strengths they can build on, and potential pitfalls they need to watch out for.
IBI's Risk Profile Analysis
We combine 3 of the most powerful tools for intercultural assessment available today:
IBI's Intercultural Readiness Check: Four vital intercultural competences
Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (van Oudenhoven & van der Zee): Five essential aspects of personality
Intercultural Development Inventory (Hammer & Bennett): Constructive intercultural mindset and attitude
Steps
Intake telephone sessions (approx. 30 minutes)
Intercultural assessment (per assessment tool approx. 20 minutes)
Coaching sessions (1 day)
Customized country briefings by a country expert (1 day)
Follow-up telephone session 4 weeks later (approx. 45 minutes)
Our country briefings are structured according to the 4 intercultural competences assessed by the Intercultural Readiness Check. This uniquely integrates intercultural assessment, coaching and country-specific learning.
IBI Team and Services
IBI consultant Ursula Brinkmann, Ph.D., a psychologist by training, longterm expat and intercultural professional, will brief the expatriate and their partner/family on the use and rationale of IBI's Risk Profile Analysis, for administering the assessment tools, and discussing the implications of results for each phase with the expatriate and their partner/family in coaching sessions. On the basis of the results, she then advises on further training and coaching initiatives, prepares the country briefings together with the country specialist and refers the expatriate to additional coaches if so desired.
IBI country specialists are professionals who either come form the target culture or have lived there themselves for many years. They can empathize with the expatriate and their partner both from a business and a psychological perspective. With the country specialists who meet these criteria, IBI currently offers country-specific competence trainings for
| Asia | | China, India, Japan, Korea, Thailand |
| Central/Eastern Europe | | Poland, Russia |
| Western Europe | | Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK |
| As well as for | | Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, Syria, Oman and the United States |
Publications
Ursula Brinkmann and Ruth Klendauer. Relevanz, Messung und Entwicklung interkultureller Kompetenzen bei Mergers und Acquisitions. To appear in J. Deller and W. Jeserich (Eds.). Fusionsfibel.
Ursula Brinkmann. 2002. How international experience affects attitudes. Expatica.com, HR Section, 2002.
Ursula Brinkmann and Oscar van Weerdenburg. 2003. New Developments in Intercultural Management Training. IHRIM Journal.
Ursula Brinkmann and Oscar van Weerdenburg. 2002. Risikomanagement bei der interkulturellen Zusammenarbeit. In Herbert J. Joka (Ed.), Führungskräftehandbuch. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Ursula Brinkmann and Oscar van Weerdenburg. 2002. Interkulturelle Kompetenz als Business Eine Reaktion aus dem Feld. Antwort auf Joanna Breidenbach und Pál Nyírí. Organisationsentwicklung.
Ursula Brinkmann and Karen van der Zee. 1999. Benchmarking intercultural training: Is experience its biggest competitor? Language and Intercultural Training.
Iris Kuhnert. 2004. Business with the Japanese. Offenbach, Germany: GABAL Verlag.
Cosima Peißker-Meyer. 2002. Heimat auf Zeit. Europäische Frauen in der arabischen Welt. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag.
Karen van der Zee and Ursula Brinkmann. 2003. Comparison of two instruments of Multicultural Effectiveness: The Multicultural Personality Inventory and the Intercultural Readiness Check. International Journal of Assessment and Selection.
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