Every day we interact with people who are different from ourselves—whether due to nationality, ethnicity, generation, or family subcultures. These differences often create communication challenges, but by developing cultural intelligence you can learn how to harness differences into strengths, understand people without stereotyping, and strategize how to relate effectively with others.

In the Develop Your CQ program, discover your skills with an online CQ assessment that will both determine your strongest and weakest capabilites, and give you insight into your cultural value preferences. Go deeper with an interactive 2-hour online module complete with learning activities, quizzes, videos, and lectures that integrates your personal results to make sure you have all the information you need to take your capabilities to the next level. Finally, engage with an expert CQ Facilitator who will help make sure you have an actionable path to apply Cultural Intellgience in ways that are most impactful to your life and work.

Here is how the process works:

Step 1 - Take the online CQ Pro Assessment (appx 20 minutes)

Step 2 - Complete the e-learning module at whatever time and pace you want (appx 2 hours) You can do it all at once, or stop and come back to it at any point.

Step 3 - Schedule a 1-on-1 consultation with a CQ expert (45 minutes) to get the most out of your personal results and create an effective action plan that will make your CQ skills shine!

The combination of personal strengths assessment, learning module, and individual consulting offerd a full scope to help you realize your capabilities, understand how to develop CQ, give you practical strategies and tips that you can use right away, and create a plan for growth that is relevant and proven to improve your Cultural Intelligence.

Our engaging and convenient two-hour course that draws on the results of the CQ Pro Assessment and dives into Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and cultural values.

This course uses real-world examples of culturally diverse situations to help you develop winning strategies for strengthening your cultural intelligence.

You’ll get answers to questions like:

• What do my CQ scores mean? How can I improve?

• How do I compare with individuals worldwide?

• How do I leverage my cultural intelligence in the real-world?

This course also gives you a deep understanding of your cultural value preferences and how they influence your approach to life and work. It includes engaging exercises and examples to promote awareness and agility around cultural values.

All humans have Cultural Values that they learn starting in childhood. Understanding your cultural values and learning about other cultural values is essential to improving your cultural intelligence. Cultural values influence how every person interacts, communicates, plans, and executes tasks, so this course will help you effectively manage those differences in your life and work.

Here is a glance at what you’ll learn:

Cultural Intelligence

• Learn what Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is and why it matters

• Learn how to interpret, improve, and leverage your CQ

• Understand the critical components of cultural intelligence and develop a personalized CQ action plan to improve your CQ

• Gain the skills and knowledge to improve their capability to work more effectively in culturally diverse situations

• Understand how your scores compare to worldwide norms

Cultural Values

• Learn about culture, ten cultural value preferences, and the ten largest cultural clusters around the world

• Learn tips for working with individuals who have different preferences

• Discover your orientation on ten cultural values and their impact on how you live and work

• Deep understanding of ten cultural values that differ significantly between nationalities, ethnicities, religions, age groups, and other demographic classes.

• Self-awareness to form better connections, communication skills, and confidence around individuals with different cultural values.

Participants of our proven programs see a variety of results that make an impact on their personal and professional lives, including:

• Increased workplace effectiveness

• Improved customer satisfaction

• Better decision-making in complex situations

• Increased self- and other-awareness

• Greater empathy and understanding toward those who are different from themselves

• Effective conflict resolution

• Successful entry into new international markets

• Improved life satisfaction

Develop Your CQ is a personal and professional development program for people who want to work and relate effectively with others who are different from themselves.

In our increasingly globalized world, this training is especially relevant for leaders, managers, educators, expatriates, global professionals, and anyone who works on a diverse team or serves clients from various backgrounds.