MSU Extension Organizational Development

 

 

This is an online, 20-25 minute assessment to show individuals or groups where they are on the intercultural development continuum. It must be followed by a debrief to help learners understand their results and explore how they can build their intercultural competence. The debrief could be done in a group (1-hour), but it is much more impactful one-on-one (individual 45-minute sessions).  Results are kept confidential, as they reveal where individuals are on a continuum.  

 

This is recommended for people who are serious about long term development of cultural competency and as a measure or impact before and after a significant cross-cultural experience. This is excellent for: Learning more about yourself and how you deal with differences and suggesting ways to grow interculturally for working across differences.  https://www.idiinventory.com/ 

 

This is an online, 15–20-minute assessment to help you understand your approach to conflict, improve communication, and resolve conflict across differences.  It is a great tool for intact teams to take together to improve communication. The assessment can stand alone without the training, but the training has to be preceded by completion of the assessment. Results are not kept confidential, as there is no “right” or “wrong.”

 

This is excellent for: Learning more about yourself and about how different conflict styles aren’t better or worse, but instead just different. This is especially valuable for work teams to improve communication and for leaders since our culture has a preferred conflict resolution style in workplaces—and that may not align with how others prefer to resolve conflict. https://icsinventory.com/

 

In this training we will examine a few models of culture and look at some past seminal research on national cultures (Hofstede and the GLOBE project) that helps us make cross-national comparisons for a variety of culture dimensions. We will examine U.S. culture through these lenses and analyze how different behaviors, actions, and attitudes in educational settings can be tied to their underlying beliefs and values. We will reflect on how our own cultural backgrounds and beliefs impact those whom we teach, and how we can be more inclusive of students from various cultures and more supportive of English Language Learners.