Why is Repatriation Training so important? Repatriation can often be a more frustrating experience than leaving your own culture for an overseas assignment. Expectations that “returning home” is also a return to pre-assignment life are usually dashed early on. The international experience has changed the outlook and expectations of returning employees and their families.

Their experiences seem of little interest to old friends and the assignee’s new job will undoubtedly be different from the one left behind. In fact, the returning employee experiences the same symptoms and emotions on repatriation as the manager departing for an international assignment—in reverse.

IBA Global’s repatriation training is highly tailored to enable individual employees, families or small teams to re-adjust more easily and successfully to “life back home,” both on a personal and a professional level.

Benefits

IBA Global’s Repatriation Training will provide you with:

• An empathetic guide through some of the hidden challenges you and your family will
• encounter on repatriation
• Strategies to help ease the “reverse” culture shock experience for everyone concerned
• Up-to-date information on any home-country developments since your departure such as
• taxation, education and media
• An opportunity to discuss any individual concerns regarding repatriation

Who should attend

IBA Global’s Repatriation Training will be of benefit to you if:

• You are a HR or International Assignments Manager and need to understand more about the
• impact repatriation can have on the employee, family and organisation
• You are an international assignee returning to your home country, whether within the same -
• organisation or a new one
• You are returning from your partner’s overseas assignment and plan to re-enter the
• workplace
• You are returning with your family and wish to make repatriation as smooth as possible for
• all concerned

Course content

All of our Repatriation Training courses are designed to meet the specific needs of our clients depending on their personal/organisational requirements and existing skills set. A Repatriation Training course typically includes:

• The expatriate experience – new skills and experiences
• Readjusting to repatriation – reverse culture shock
• Repatriation for all the family
• Returning to the workplace
• Coping with change
• Maximising your cross cultural experience
• Home country updates

Approach

Repatriation Training courses are available seven days a week, 365 days a year, either at one of our training centres or at your offices in any location worldwide. We usually recommend a one or two day course but can also offer a more flexible format to suit your schedule.

Suitably tailored materials will be used throughout your course and your trainer will provide a balance of structured input and discussion of case studies and scenarios relevant to your own particular context.
The most appropriate training format, content and approach for your Repatriation Training course will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy.

Repatriation Training course trainer

Your trainer will be assigned to you following the results of your diagnostic consultancy according to your objectives and areas of focus.