20 ways to "juice up" your global mobility program!

“Juicing up” means to make something livelier, more powerful, or more effective. It implies giving something more energy or spirit and making it more interesting.

If you lead a global mobility program, or want to one day, you're always looking for interesting ideas to make your program stand out. You read all the new trends, whitepapers, and survey reports for the latest stats. You're probably willing to consider policy ideas, seek program efficiencies, evaluate new technologies, explore ways to improve compliance, and dive into elevating your employee experience. You're managing internal stakeholders and a variety of program service partners. Cost and value are also top considerations.

Well, grab a cup of whatever makes you alert and contemplative, and take a look at these ideas. We're giving you 20 ways to “juice up” your global mobility program! Each of these suggestions contains links to other posts for more details and thoughts. Have some fun!

1. Ensure your global mobility program aligns with your organization's overarching talent and business strategies.
2. Build strong(er) relationships with important stakeholders.
3. Define a “world-class global mobility program” and compare your program to that definition.
4. Consider how to better “market” your mobility program by highlighting success stories.
5. Create strong communication pieces that recruiters and hiring managers can use during relocation and assignment conversations.
6. Have consistent periodic internal meetings with accounts payable, payroll, recruiters, and talent management to stay in sync and collect feedback.
7. Work with service partners that have the same culture and business mindset.
8. Applaud and celebrate your partners for what they are doing well. 
9. However, hold your service partners accountable!
10. Go onsite to the service partners that are supporting your program to see how things get done.
11. Engage in voice of the customer (VOC) projects periodically.
12. Look at technologies that create efficiencies, cost savings, and better employee experiences. 
13. Re-evaluate the types of benefits that matter to your employees, especially non-traditional options.
14. Find a way to weave greater flexibility into your mobility policies and overall mobility program, especially for employees to have control over their own benefits.
15. Improve efficiencies: Identify the top 3 most time-consuming activities, and design solutions to reduce the time spent.
16. Minimize or eliminate exception requests.
17. Create budgets for every authorization and track the actuals against the budget.
18. Find and eliminate any compliancy issues.
19. Identify three things you can do within your mobility program to improve DEIB!
20. Evaluate the need to reskill/upskill yourself and your mobility team.

These are just 20 ideas to help with brainstorming. When it comes to juicing up your mobility processes, the possibilities are endless! Let us know what else you would recommend we add to this list.