IMPROVING CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
This workshop explores New Zealand’s cultural landscape and addresses key concepts such as culture, cultural dissonance and acculturative strategies.
Cultural intelligence is a skill current and future leaders experiencing the effects of rapid demographic changes in New Zealand workplaces need to develop.
This training aims to provide participants with basic cultural competence in a personal and professional settings. Additionally, it is designed to help people build an open mind to how we impact others consciously and unconsciously.
Available as a three-hour face-to-face workshop or a 90-minute online session.
Learning objectives for in-person session
- Review New Zealand’s ethnic and cultural diversity
- Understand culture and integration in the workplace
- Learn some risks of cultural dissonance in the workplace
- Understand the four components of cultural intelligence: Cultural drivers, knowledge, strategies, and action
- Develop tools and strategies to help you reflect on your own biases, judgments and thought processes
- Use cultural maps to learn new or different ways of connecting with others from different cultures
Learning objectives for virtual session
- Understand culture and cultural integration in the context of the workplace
- Learn some risks of cultural dissonance in the workplace
- Understand the four components of cultural intelligence: Cultural drivers, knowledge, strategies, and action
To request corporate training for your organisation, please email training@diversityworksnz.org.nz
- To proceed, we will need a proposal to be signed (e-signature available);
- From there, we will work to align availability with one of our facilitators;
- After confirming availability, you will receive an email with relevant workshop details and materials and automated reminders will be scheduled too;
- All invoices are raised shortly after the workshop has been delivered and we encourage you to complete feedback forms so that we can work together to grow from our experience
