Re-entry training for returning expats
Up to 50% of repatriates leave their company within the first two years. [Source: University of Iowa]
What is often underestimated: An international assignment changes people – both personally and professionally. Upon returning, many repatriates face unanswered questions about their future, a lack of perspective within the company, or family-related stress caused by exhaustion or unresolved experiences.
Our re-entry programs deal with these challenges by providing targeted support during reintegration, addressing key issues openly. In doing so, we actively strengthen retention, stability, and motivation after the return.
Your return on investment
- You keep the talent you sent abroad: Employees who get support during the transition find a role and a perspective faster. That protects the exact investment you made with the assignment.
- The transition phase gets significantly shorter: Your people come back with a clear plan for the first 100 days and reach full performance at the home site much faster.
- International experience becomes company knowledge: We identify the skills built during the assignment and make them usable for projects, global teams, and processes.
What we work on with your returnees
Every program is built around your situation. These modules form the core.
Module 1
- The assignment debrief: Reflection on personal and professional development. New skills get named and translated into the role at the home site.
- Reality check at home: A structured comparison between the host country and the home organization. We help your people assess what has shifted in the team, the company, and their private life, and anticipate the friction points of the first weeks.
- Recognize and absorb re-entry shock: Typical patterns, early warning signs, and field-tested strategies against stress, exhaustion, and alienation.
Module 2
- The family in focus: What do partner and children need right now? School, social environment, changed roles. We work through the topics that carry the return in everyday life or bring it down.
- The personal 100-day plan: Concrete steps for the first days, weeks, and months after the return, including milestones, contacts, and fixed check-in points.
- Optional add-on module: Sparring for the direct manager and HR. This puts the return under active management instead of leaving it to chance.
We'll happily adapt the program to your individual needs. Please contact our team!
Why Eidam & Partner?
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We’re proud to have a 100% recommendation rate. Here’s what our clients appreciate most.
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Real experience, not theory. Every re-entry trainer on our team has completed their own international assignment and returned home to face the same challenges your employees are facing right now.
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Our trainings feature a dynamic blend of interactive methods – from exercises, group challenges and simulations to recent case studies and videos.
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Our learning events come with a wide range of included extras. Plus, we enhance learning success and practical application through smart online elements – from e-learning and learning nuggets to innovative AI tools.
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Our trainings are individually adjusted to your situation and needs; 100% guaranteed!
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Eidam & Partner operates in a climate-neutral way: with green electricity, recycled paper, CO2 compensation via tree planting and much more.
Practical Checklist for Download
Do you want to approach re-entry more systematically? Our compact HR checklist distills eight success factors from over 20 years of practice. Directly applicable, no detours.
Learn how to retain returning talent, secure international competencies within your organization, and protect your investment in international assignments – all the way to the last step.
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More than 550 companies rank among our customers, including Airbus, Audi, HewlettPackard, Leoni and Siemens.
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