NETEXPATIVENESS
Courtney Lind • March 11, 2020
In an increasingly digital and hands-off world, where business can feel more transactional than meaningful, we want to bring the focus back to the individuals who are at the heart of the work we do. Relocating employees, their partners and the many employers moving global talent are all valued members of the NetExpat ecosystem.
They’re at the heart of the work we do and we’re constantly considering how to best meet the needs of everyone we serve. The NetExpat team is represented on six continents and we’re fortunate that we can use this diversity to our advantage, pulling new ideas from across the globe.
With a renewed sense of focus in this new decade we’ve put a name to the term that drives us to
best support our clients and leverage the strength of our team: NetExpativeness
This asks how we can…
This model of progressive thinking puts the focus back on the individual. While we continue to develop new technologies that make employee and partner support more valuable than ever before, it’s the individuals who are at the heart of everything we do.
How do our team members incorporate NetExpativeness?
“NetExpat's fast-paced growth is adding more projects, emails, and meetings on everyone’s agenda. How to make sure we stay responsive to our corporate and employee clients? The answer is simple: focus on the client experience and reduce non-added value processes and tasks. By being NetExpateffective, we will spend more time advising clients and supporting relocating families: this is what we are passionate about, let’s not have technology take that away from us!”
-Nathalie Brotchi – EVP Global Operations
“Having worked for large multinational corporations with sometimes overly complicated processes, I now enjoy working in a very agile organization – with an amazing speed in making decisions and finding the best solutions for our clients.”
-Winfried Guba – VP Global Advisory Services, Central Europe
“Companies need their mobile employees in their new location, settled and working as quickly as possible. A large part of settling in their new location is understanding the local culture and making sure needs of the relocating partner are also addressed. Having lived and worked internationally I personally understand both those challenges. Therefore by actively listening to their needs, I am able to pair them effectively with the best-suited consultant and suggest the most adequate programs to their situation.”
-Jill Luecht - Senior Manager, Global Client Services
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