Team Relocations Joins SIRVA

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Team Relocations Is Now SIRVA Worldwide Relocation & Moving!

SIRVA as a global leader in moving and relocation services offers unmatched global breadth and innovative technology, complementing Team Relocations' longstanding reputation for high quality moving and relocation solutions to some of the world's leading multinational organizations.

Our resources combine the unique talents and expertise of leaders across a broad scope of mobility-related services. This synthesis is a key part of our commitment to provide our clients and their employees with the best moving and relocation experience possible.

By combining Team Relocations with SIRVA, we offer 75 office locations worldwide with over 2,900 employees operating in 180+ countries. Customers benefit from our:

  • End to End Service Delivery Model from departure to destination. We will help you with everything including visa and immigration, employee counseling and VIP services. Our relocation specialists are here to help. 
  • Client Advisory Services. We will work with you, according to your specific needs, to achieve more efficient and high-quality relocations. SIRVA offers a multitude of client financial services, from lump sum to expense management, which are designed to help ease the financial burden of relocating your employees. We can assist in compensation and payroll administrations, vendor management, intern management programs, group move management, and management reporting. 
  • Home and Mortgage Services. From home finding to tenancy management, we can help ease the process of moving and help relocating employees have one less thing to worry about.
  • Moving Services. We can help you and your employees get to where they need to be. Whether moving to a new house, a new office or trying to relocate a pet, we have the resources to help make the process go as smoothly as possible for your employees. 
  • Technology Solutions. Our innovative and flexible technology solutions have been developed you and your employees in mind: easy-to-use, intuitive and helps to save time and resources, whilst enhancing reporting capabilities. We continue to invest in order to improve the relocation process for both mobility teams and relocating employees. 

 

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Expatriate Mentoring: Maximizing the Benefits of Mentoring and Knowledge Transfer Within Global Mobility

Published: Friday, January 31, 2020

The December 2018 report produced by The Res Forum, in association with SIRVA Worldwide Relocation, highlights the pros and cons of home vs. host country mentors and provides insights into mentor selection and pairing.

It’s a well-recognized fact that relocation assignments can fail when an expatriate or his/her family fails to adjust to their host country. The challenges associated with adjusting to a new life are well documented.

One way organizations can ease the transition for newly relocated expatriates is by providing pre-departure inter-cultural training programs or language classes, but another successful way is by providing them with a mentor. A mentor who shares cultural experience with the expatriate can address and alleviate the difficulties international assignees often face abroad from a “human perspective.” It’s been shown that mentoring improves, among other things, the career commitment and job satisfaction of employees. It also improves the relationship between the employee and the company. Effective mentoring generally has a positive impact upon the success of international assignments.

But what’s the best way to implement a mentoring relationship? The study, which examines the experiences of 491 expatriates, highlights the pros and cons of home vs. host country mentors and provides insights into mentor selection and pairing. 

Key concepts explored include: 

• A comparison between home- and host-country mentorships – their varying advantages and disadvantages
• The relationship between the ability to adjust to a new life in one’s assignment location and the success or failure of that assignment 
• Formal vs. informal mentoring relationships
• The role of personality as it relates to mentor/mentee chemistry

Finally, a toolkit is included that provides a step-by-step approach to planning and implementing an effective mentoring program – from defining goals and training volunteers to matching mentors with the right mentees.  

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