Welcome to our
Strange Lands
Global Assignment Specialists
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We provide coaching, training, and other intervention programs designed to prepare and support
persons, teams and organizations as they
encounter the challenges of what we call "Strange
Lands "
- the new and rapidly changing ecologies we all face in a rapidly changing
global world characterized by new people, cultures, places and technologies.
This focus is applied to international assignments in business, government and
non-governmental organizations, to our diverse, changing workplaces and
communities at home, and to those engaged in the rapidly expanding world of geographically dispersed teams.
Our
programs are designed to enhance the success
of participants by helping them deal effectively with the Three Key
Challenges encountered on all assignments to Strange
Lands at home, abroad or in the
virtual world of the internet. These challenges include: coping with ecoshock or their psychological
and physiological reaction to encountering new sociocultural,
physical, and biological environments; getting
the job done in the new ecology by dealing effectively with
diversity and change; and maintaining
motivation or the "will"
to continue to try and put forth their best efforts day after day, year after year.
We work with participants to help them develop the strategies and skills
necessary to deal effectively with these challenges. Special emphasis is placed on helping diverse intercultural/international
teams work together face-to-face and online.
Our programs are designed for assignees,
the families that may be
accompanying them, the trainers and
managers supporting them, their
hosts abroad, and the teams at home, abroad or online with whom
they are working. The programs deal with the needs and experiences of them all
using a variety of training and support techniques. These techniques help
trainees take the skills they've learned "back home" to their job and
continue to develop and expand them in a manner tailored to their specific job
situations.
As the Principal Program Specialist for Strange Lands I am a
professor in the
Air New Zealand; American Express
International; Asia Industrial Development; Asia Motors; China American
Petrochemical; Citibank; Coca-Cola; Crazy Shirts; Del Monte Fresh Produce
(Asia-Pacific & Philippines); Digital; Dole Philippines; Dow Chemical
Pacific; Dow Chemical Singapore; Fujitsu Nagoya; Honeywell; General Electric;
IBM Singapore; International Catholic Migration Commission; Kodak; Kong Ming
Bank; Manila Hilton; Mercedes-Benz; Mobil Producing Services East Asia;
Motorola Semiconductor; NCR; Nestle Singapore; New Zealand Steel; Permodalan Bumiputra Sabah; Petronas; Philippine Long
Distance Telephone; Reuters; Rothmans; Singapore Polytechnic; Sycip, Gorres, Velayo & Co.; Telecom Australia; TNT Skypack; US Agriculture Dept.; US Navy.
Or go to a full geographical listing of Strange
Lands'
organizational clients.
Each of our programs provides participants
with access to a Support
Package to facilitate the continued enhancement of their strategies and
skills over the course of their assignment. The package includes links to key
information, resources, bibliographies, graphics, education and training
opportunities, and support organizations.
Please check-out a typical one- to three-day
training Program
with topics & visuals.
For further information, please
write to
Gary Fontaine, Ph.D., 47-403B Ahuimanu Rd., Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744 USA, or
email
to gmfontaine@cs.com.
To my Home Page for a
more complete description of my professional activities and experience.
To a web
version of my new book entitled Successfully Meeting
the 3 Challenges of All International Assignments.
Visuals to
support our global training seminars.
To the International
Journal of Intercultural Relations--the major professional journal
focused on intercultural/international issues.
To the Asia Pacific
Management Forum--a new meeting place for managers, researchers,
consultants, trainers, and authors interested in international business in the
Asian Pacific region.
To the International Academy
of Intercultural Research (IAIR).
To SIETAR International--a major professional
association dealing with intercultural/international training issues.
To the most complete listing of International Business
Resources on the WWW.
To ExpatExchange.com a global
network of resources for Expats.
Visit a
particularly nice "strange land" Fontaine's on Boracay.
We are
currently doing research on the experience of international activity--how it impacts
participants' thoughts and feelings and their consciousness of the world
immediately around them. We could use your contributions! Please check out the "Presence in
Strange Lands" web page for details.
and …
We are currently doing research on "Global Swarming"--a Self-Organization and Swarm
Intelligence model of the optimization processes of multinational
enterprises around the globe. If you
have been involved in your career in developing organizational strategies for
getting things done for such enterprises we would very much appreciate your input. Please visit our Global
Swarming web page and survey.
Aloha,
Gary Fontaine
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Copyright 2007 by Gary Fontaine