The Cultural Competence Journey

Описание: Imagine you need to prepare to deliver successful cultural competence development experiences. You would need to set up a learning environment to help you cultivate cultural awareness and develop trust. Your goal is to encourage participants to initiate their own cross cultural competence journeys. It is important to understand the changing global business environment, and how and why diversity is growing in organizations. You can use stories to frame the ongoing need for cultural competence — and the challenges that may be involved.

Cultural competence development may also shift a personal focus to an organizational one, exploring the often untapped value that global competence brings to organizations and the ways in which people around the globe are similar and different. The cultural competence journey must explore dimensions of culture and the nature of prejudice and bias, and provide numerous tools for self-examination of cross cultural awareness.

Unpacking culture includes understanding the complexity of values in cross cultural environments, the challenges arising from conflicting values and the need for values alignment. Leaders and managers require skills to manage multicultural teams, motivate and inspire people who are culturally both similar and different, and learn how to effectively lead, coach, and mentor people in diverse environments. Individuals can cultivate a cross cultural mind-set and experience lifelong learning.