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For employers in the Netherlands

Practical support for your team and international hires.

From the hiring decision to day-to-day teamwork. We help your team and international colleagues work better together.

Discuss your challengeSee it in practice

Support arranged by your organisation. Built around the people involved.

Bring both sides together
Your organisation
A business challenge to work on.
Manager & team
Expectations. Ways of working.
International colleague
Experience. Questions. A new role.
Work on one practical improvement.
With the team, the individual, or both.
01 / Practical examples

Which situation
sounds familiar?

Explore the challenge, the work involved and a sample of what your team could take away.

Example scenario / Hiring pathways01 / 03

A promising candidate.
A clear next move.

The situation

You have found an international graduate on an orientation-year permit. You want to explore hiring them and plan for what comes next.

Our role

Clarify the role, organise the questions that need confirmation, and prepare the team and candidate for the start.

Hiring preparationIndividual mentoring
Example output

A hiring readiness plan.

From an open question to a practical starting point.

Starting situationOrientation year
Possible next routeHighly skilled migrant
Check permit validity, employer requirements and applicable salary criteria.
The roleResponsibilities, expectations and working language.
The startPreparation, named responsibilities and first check-ins.
A clearer decision and a plan for the people involved.
Orientation year → highly skilled migrant: what needs checking

In this example, the starting point is a candidate with an orientation-year permit. Any continuation depends on the person's eligibility and the employer meeting the applicable conditions. Confirm the requirements with the IND or an appropriate specialist.

IND: orientation yearIND: highly skilled migrantIND: salary criteria

Hiring preparation, the people involved, and a route to check.

Talk about a similar situation
Example scenario / Onboarding02 / 03

Make the first weeks easier for everyone.

The situation

Your first international colleague is joining a mainly Dutch-speaking team. Familiar routines are not yet familiar to the new hire.

Our role

Prepare a joining plan with the manager, make working agreements explicit and support the new colleague through one-to-one mentoring.

Team workshopIndividual mentoring
Example output

A shared starting plan.

Preparation on both sides of the table.

01 Prepare
02 Start
03 Review
Manager
Clarify role & expectationsName a point of contactReview the start
Team
Explain working routinesMake agreements explicitDiscuss what needs adjusting
New colleague
Prepare questionsWork through real situationsShare questions & feedback
Clear expectations, day-to-day support and planned check-ins.

Support the colleague and prepare the team they are joining.

Talk about a similar situation
Example scenario / Intercultural collaboration03 / 03

Different expectations.
Better ways of working.

The situation

Questions stay unasked. Feedback is missed. Meetings end with different understandings of what happens next.

Our role

Practise feedback, surface assumptions and agree how decisions and responsibilities are communicated. Review real situations through mentoring.

Intercultural workshopTeam mentoring
Example output

A team working agreement.

Make the unwritten expectations explicit.

Different interpretations
Shared working agreements
FeedbackGive it, ask for it and check understanding.
DecisionsMake the owner and next action clear.
Follow-throughReview what works and what needs adjusting.
Practical agreements the team can use in everyday work.

Work with the situation, not assumptions about nationality.

Talk about a similar situation
02 / Ways we can work together

The right support.
For the people involved.

A workshop, team mentoring or one-to-one support. Choose the format around the work.

01 / WORKSHOPS

Get on the
same page.

Bring a real situation into a focused session. Identify the issue and agree a practical action together.

Activation Workshop · 60 to 90 minutes

An action, an owner and a point to review progress.

02 / TEAM MENTORING

Work through it
as a team.

Support managers and colleagues with feedback, expectations and everyday working relationships.

Real situations, reviewed together

Clearer agreements and adjustments the team can use.

03 / INDIVIDUAL MENTORING

Support the person
behind the role.

One-to-one mentoring arranged by your organisation for a candidate, new colleague or manager.

Focused on the person's work situation

Role clarity, preparation and practical next steps.

You do not need to choose a format before getting in touch.

Discuss your challenge
03 / How we work

More than a recommendation.

Agree a focused piece of work, then put it into practice together.

01

Understand
the challenge.

Start with one role, joining experience or team situation that needs to work better.

02

Agree
the work.

Set the deliverable, responsibilities, timing and fee before we begin.

03

Make it
happen.

We work alongside your team on the agreed improvement and review what changed.

Agreed before we begin
DeliverableResponsibilitiesTimingFee
Behind the work

Understand the barriers.
Build better collaboration.

Activation Framework

Identify what needs attention before choosing an action.

01Stability

Can people focus and participate?

02Translation

Are skills and expectations understood?

03Navigation

Are routes and responsibilities clear?

04Visibility

Can people see opportunities and contributions?

Explore the Activation Framework

Intercultural competence

Practical work on communication and collaboration, involving managers and colleagues on both sides.

01Ask
02Check
03Agree
Feedback
Understanding
Assumptions
Decisions

Work with people and real situations, not stereotypes.

Before we start

A few practical questions.

Do we need to start with a workshop?

No. Start with the situation. The right support may be a workshop, team mentoring, individual mentoring or a focused piece of implementation work.

Who is individual mentoring for?

A candidate, new colleague or manager, with support arranged by the organisation. We agree the purpose and what is shared with the employer together with the participant.

How is the work agreed?

We agree the deliverable, responsibilities, timing and fee before beginning. Then we work on the improvement together and review what changed.

Start with your business

What needs to
work better?

Tell us about your team, the situation and the change you want to make.

Discuss your challenge

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