Understanding individual learning needs: Benefit and scope of Intercultural Assessment Instruments
Facilitators
Doug Stuart, IOR Global Services
Ursula Brinkmann, Intercultural Business Improvement
SIETAR Europe 2005 Congress in La Colle sur Loup, France, September 21 - 25, 2005
Workshop date and times: 21 September 2005, 09.00-12.30, 13.30-16.15
Workshop content and program
There is a growing need for interculturalists to understand individual differences. Many of their clients by now have extensive experience of living abroad; many companies have invested into the intercultural development of their staff. The better interculturalists can assess individual learning needs, the more effective their interventions will be. To what extent do intercultural assessment tools support practitioners in assessing such needs, and how should they decide for a given tool? Answering these questions can be difficult: Most instruments are proprietary and require certification. Our objective is to acquaint interculturalists with five instruments, each representing a category of available tools; to present findings that help to better understand their potential and underlying assumptions; and to explore how these tools can enhance learning.
- The Intercultural Readiness Check (completed pre-conference on line; group profile debriefed during the workshop; individual written feedback during the workshop)
- The Intercultural Development Inventory (completed pre-conference on line; group profile debriefed during the workshop)
- The Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (completed pre-conference on line; individual written feedback during the workshop)
- Culture in the Workplace (completed pre-conference on line; group profile debriefed during the workshop).
- The Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (completed during the workshop)
We will first discuss intercultural competence and to what extent it can be measured and enhanced. The IRC, MPQ, and IDI will be debriefed in the morning, the CW and ICSI in the afternoon. Results of a study involving the IDI and the MPQ will deepen our understanding of what the tools assess. We will furthermore discuss how the tools can enhance intercultural training/consulting, qualification processes, if any, the costs of qualification and use, and how to purchase them.
To register, please go to http://www.sietar-europa.org
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