Much to the surprise of many "Relocation" has an industry of its own and there are a couple of organizations around the world that are set up to facilitate dialogue and mutual business opportunties in relocation related areas.
The largest of these organizations is the Employee Relocation Council (ERC) or what is known today as the "Worldwide ERC"; www.worldwideerc.org
The ERC is the relocation organization for both domestic US relocations and for international relocation and holds conferences in USA, Asia and Europe, and is the organization that everyone turns to for information, benchmarking and networking on relocation topics.
The H&R Group, and in particular our relocation brand "ReloJapan" has been a member of Worldwide ERC for over 10 years, and is proud to be associated with our industries most prominent organization.
I am also proud to have been nominated onto the ERC Planning Committee of the "Global Workforce Summit" to be held in Seattle towards the end of October 2010. The planning committee consists of about 25 relocation professionals who are tasked with the organization of the summit and the preparation of some 20 different seminars / sessions on a variety of relocaton topics.
In particular interest to me is a session that I have been allocated to facilitate on "360 Degree Communication in International Relocation". While I have very few ideas on how to move this session forward right now, I am particularly motivated by the topic, as I see the worst of it being a "Destination Service Provider" in Japan.
There is definately no 360 degree communication in terms of the work we receive through Relocation Management Companies as per my entry of February 9th; http://real-o-cating-japan.blogspot.com/2010/02/who-is-client-in-relocation.html, whereby nobody appears to have the same "client" and therefore the focus goes on different people in the process depending on who you are; resulting in communication to about 45 degrees and not 360.
It will be a welcoming concept to invite some speakers on 360 degree communication to my session, and I really hope that all the Relocation Management Companies attend it!
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