Building Cultural Competencies within your Organization

• Build a baseline of cultural understanding and intelligence within the organization.
• Continuously build on that the key concepts covered in the training, including:
  • Understanding and intelligence of
    • Self-Awareness
    • Self-Accountability
    • Adaptive Communication
    • Foresight
    • Cultural awareness and sensitivity

The goal of this program is for participants to think deeply about their cultural perspectives with the goal of advocating for others by “stepping up” with courage and respect for the sake of valuing others who are different from them and by creating a workplace environment that celebrates, welcomes and respects differences.

The program is designed to educate and train the groups within the organization by providing them with tools, resources and on-the-job skills to most effectively attain this self-awareness.

To provide the knowledge, skills, tools, and perspectives to build competencies that will allow participants to:

• First and foremost, understand self and manage self in order to most effectively exhibit positive leadership;
• Demonstrate the ability to hold oneself accountable, with respect to recognition of cultural perspectives;
• Understand others’ perspectives and how these perspectives are essential for not only a more productive workplace but an environment where better decisions are made because of the breadth of thought and viewpoints;
• Practice and value the art of active listening and appropriate follow-up for shared understanding of communication outcomes;
• Comprehend the complexities of human behavior and the impact on organizational dynamics.

For more information, view the CIE brochure here.