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Revisit the assumptions that create have-to
We look at which expectations or sense of role are pulling you toward “I have to,” and revisit the assumptions and beliefs behind them.
- Over-responding to expectations
- Fear of losing something
Coaching for Global Professionals
Is your overseas experience truly connected to your future?
Coaching to reinterpret your role in global business or local organizations from a future goal.
Headquarters, local members, customers, partner companies, family, and yourself.
As you continue responding to multiple expectations, your way of being as a leader and your standard for judgment can gradually become unclear.
Rather than being consumed by the role in front of you, this is a time to choose your way of being, judgment, and actions from a goal beyond the current reality.
Problem
When you take on a role overseas, or become involved in global business, the people you face increase all at once.
Headquarters, local members, supervisors, colleagues, customers, partner companies, and family. Each has different positions, assumptions, interests, and speed.
Language, culture, business customs, legal systems, labor environments, and market conditions also overlap. Even the same decision does not move forward in the same way as it would at home.
Overseas, your own way of being as a leader can also be shaken. When expectations from headquarters, local members, customers, and partner companies overlap, it can become difficult to see what you are reacting to, what you are carrying, and what standards you are using to judge.
That is why, before trying to change the local organization or the people around you, it becomes important to revisit your own assumptions, role, and way of engaging from your future goal.
Issue
Overseas work has a real sense of impact. You stand between headquarters and the local organization, make decisions across cultures, face customers and partner companies, and move things forward with limited information.
Because it is not easy, it can also bring a strong sense of growth and fulfillment. At the same time, there are “have-to” pressures that increase precisely because you are working overseas.
Each one is necessary. That is why fulfilling the role and responsibility in front of you matters.
Yet when you continue to be chased by these demands, there is less time to ask what role you truly need to fulfill and what this overseas experience should connect to.
Are you satisfied simply because the environment is difficult? As someone carrying an organization, are you truly creating value for the overseas business and the company? These questions can easily be pushed aside by busyness and a sense of progress.
Coaching Role
Coaching is not a time to simply organize concerns. It is not a time to set a goal that merely feels achievable from where you are now.
It is a time to set a goal beyond the current reality and reinterpret who you are now from the side of that future.
Deciding a goal also means deciding the way of being you will choose from here. When the future you choose changes, today’s judgments change.
What are you being chased by now? Where do you feel progress, and where do you feel discomfort? As someone carrying an organization, what roles and responsibilities will you take on? Who will you serve, with what, and how?
We look carefully at that reality, then choose again the meaning, judgments, conversations, and actions of the present as the person who is appropriate for the future goal.
When the goal changes, the meaning of now changes. When the meaning of now changes, the actions you choose change.
A future goal becomes
the standard that changes today’s choices.
What We Do
In sessions, we work through concrete experiences from the past and present. This is not for the sake of looking back.
The purpose is to set a goal beyond the current reality and, as the person on the side of that goal, change your judgment, conversations, and actions.
First, we look at the structure of the “have-to” that increases overseas. When headquarters and local realities, the expectations around you, and your own wishes overlap, we clarify what you are being chased by and which assumptions are narrowing your judgment.
Next, we put your way of being and the role you are actually playing into words. Not your title, but what you see, what you judge, and what value you create. We reinterpret who you are as someone who serves whom, with what, and how.
From there, we explore the want-to running through your life and set a goal beyond the current reality. The goal is not a distant ideal. It is the standard that changes today’s choices as the future-side self.
Once the goal is set, the next judgment, conversation, and action you choose change. What will you take on, what will you create distance from, which conversation will you have, and what action will you change from today? By continuing to choose as the future-side self, the way you use your overseas time changes.
We look at which expectations or sense of role are pulling you toward “I have to,” and revisit the assumptions and beliefs behind them.
Beyond your title or job description, we reinterpret what you see, what you judge, and what value you create.
We look beyond temporary preferences and explore the want-to that has repeatedly moved you through your experiences and choices.
We set a goal from the future you truly want, not merely as an extension of current roles, evaluations, or expectations.
From the perspective of the future goal, we clarify what to choose, what to let go of, and which conversations and actions to change.
When you change action, anxiety, old rules, and unconscious constraints can emerge. We work with them while strengthening efficacy.
Outcomes
The aim of coaching is not to simply organize the current situation.
It is to set a goal beyond the extension of the present and, from that future side, choose your way of seeing, self-image, judgment, dialogue, and actions for yourself.
When the goal changes, the meaning of the present changes. When the meaning of the present changes, the roles you take on, the people you engage with, and the actions you choose also change.
Turn your overseas time
into time lived inside a future goal.
Why rokana
Overseas Business Experience×Overseas HR & Organization Support×Coaching
When people working overseas or engaging in global business are chased by “have-to,” it should not be seen simply as a matter of personal effort or mindset.
Headquarters and local realities, expectations around you and your own wishes, responsibility for results, cultural differences, and the limited assignment period. When multiple demands overlap, there is a structure in which people become covered in have-to without realizing it.
That is why coaching for people working overseas or engaging in global business requires the ability to read how overseas-business-specific have-to is being generated.
rokana combines overseas business experience, an HR and organization-support perspective, and cognitive-science-based coaching to identify where beliefs have become fixed and where the person has moved away from the future-side goal.
From there, we set a goal beyond the current reality and rewrite beliefs, judgments, and actions so they are appropriate for the future-side self. rokana supports that process.
Makoto has made decisions while seeing expectations from headquarters, local members, customers, and partner companies at the same time. He works with overseas tension from the perspective of someone who has moved business forward.
Problems overseas are not reduced to an individual’s ability or personality. By reading role expectations, decision criteria, delegation, and gaps between headquarters and local assumptions, we identify what creates have-to.
The coaching works with goals, beliefs, efficacy, and unconscious constraints, supporting you in choosing your way of seeing, thinking, judgment, and action toward a future beyond the present.
About the Coach
Makoto Yagenji八源寺 誠
Professional Coach
Cross-Border HR & Organization Consultant
Makoto supports people and organizations working across borders through overseas business experience, HR and organization consulting, and coaching.
He has worked mainly in Shanghai, China and Bangkok, Thailand, engaging in overseas business development, local company start-up, multiple business launches and multinational organization management. In Thailand, he led a local entity from company establishment through the launch and growth of multiple businesses.
He has also supported Japanese companies in ASEAN through HR system design, global talent development and management support, and has spoken in many seminars on overseas management and organization building.
In this coaching, tensions that arise while working overseas are not treated as isolated concerns. They are treated as themes for revisiting your way of being, the role you are actually playing, future goal, and actions.
For Whom
Working overseas or being involved in global business is not simply a change in location or responsibility.
When multiple expectations and responsibilities overlap, deeper questions emerge about your future goal, way of being, judgment, leadership, and career.
For those who do not want to think about the future only as an extension of current roles, evaluations, and expectations, but want to define a future they truly want and change today's choices from there.
For those who want to revisit their want-to while expectations around them and their own wishes overlap.
For those involved in global business or local organizations who want to revisit what they carry, how they judge, how they speak, and how they engage, and choose how they relate to a better business and organization.
Because you are in a responsible position, you may carry doubts or discomfort that are not easy to put into words. For those who do not want to leave those feelings behind, but want to revisit what to take on and what to step back from, from a goal beyond the current reality.
For those who want to notice unconscious assumptions such as “I have to do this” or “This is as far as I can go,” and shift to a way of seeing that fits their future self.
For those who do not want their overseas experience to end as just another career history, but want to connect it to their way of living, working, and the role they want to play as a leader.
FAQ
In an online conversation of around 30 to 60 minutes, we will listen to what you are experiencing while working overseas, what feels unresolved as you engage with global business or local organizations, and what your current situation looks like.
Through dialogue, we will organize themes such as the weight of your current role and responsibilities, decisions between headquarters and local realities, the feeling of being chased by the work in front of you, your future overseas career, and how you want to use your overseas experience from here.
As we listen, we will confirm together whether your current theme is suitable for coaching and what kind of question may be a good place to begin.
Please use this first conversation as a mutual-understanding conversation before deciding whether to begin coaching.
Yes.
When you are involved in global business or local organizations, you may not have a clear problem, but still feel that something does not fit or that the current path may not be enough.
We can begin from questions or discomfort that are not yet fully in words, and organize your way of being, role, and future goal together.
Consulting provides professional advice or solutions for a specific issue. Career advice is closer to support for organizing your past experience, available options, and future path.
In rokana coaching sessions, we do not provide answers or correct solutions from the outside. Through dialogue, we clarify your way of being, the role you want to play, and your future goal, so that you can choose your daily judgments and actions from that future side.
At the same time, the first conversation does not require you to decide in advance that coaching is what you need. As we listen to your situation around global business, overseas HR and organization, or overseas career, we will organize together whether your current theme is suitable for coaching or whether another form of conversation may be more appropriate.
Yes.
Coaching is not a space where the coach simply gives answers. It is a space for you to face your own goals, assumptions, judgments, and actions.
If you mainly want someone to give you the correct answer, if you do not want to change the current situation, or if you want only the people around you to change, another form of support may be more suitable.
In the first conversation, we will listen to your situation and honestly confirm whether coaching is suitable for you.
For Organizations
We also welcome inquiries from companies and organizations that would like to introduce 1on1 coaching for expatriates, overseas leaders, future assignees, and global business professionals.
Depending on the target group and purpose, programs can be designed around 1on1 coaching and, when helpful, combined with training or workshops.
Contact for organizationsContact
You do not need to have decided whether coaching is right for you.
Even if what you are experiencing while working overseas or your future career questions are not yet fully clear, you are welcome to share them.
In the first conversation, we will listen to your current situation and explore together what themes rokana coaching can work with.