Cultural Intelligence CQ®
Leading with Cultural Agility to Build Inclusion Across Cultures
Cultural Intelligence CQ® Overview
Embedding and sustaining impactful culture transformation demands of us to be data-driven ensuring we have the insight and know-how to be effective. CQ® is the strategic enabler to make this happen, growing our capabilities and skills to effectively cultivate cultures of inclusion.
Our suite of CQ learning experiences recognise the importance of culture to organisational success and support your people and leaders in building their competencies to effectively bridge differences across cultures, teams, communities, and generations.
Delivered by our CQ® Certified facilitators, our learning experiences draw on 2+ decades of academic research involving 250k participants from more than 160 countries.
Our CQ® Learning Experiences
Our in-person Masterclasses are tailored to address the cultural challenges you face, taking a deep-dive into the CQ® Model to build inclusion across cultures.
Our Masterclasses are designed to be offered as full or half-day learning experiences. Enhancing learners’ self-insight, accompanying each Masterclass is a CQ® Pro Assessment, mapping out each learner’s unique CQ Profile as well as their cultural values and behavioural preferences.
Our 2-hour Cultural Values workshop offers research-based insights into how our cultural identities and behavioural preferences impact our leadership style, decision-making, and relationship-building capabilities.
This workshop can be offered as a virtual or in-person learning experience. To enhance learners’ self-insight, accompanying each workshop is an evidence-based Cultural Values/Behavioural Preferences Assessment, mapping out each learner’s unique cultural values orientation to help them understand how these influence their actions.
Our CQ® eLearning comprising of online learning modules offers you a unique opportunity to scale CQ across your organisation to cover different geographies, functions, and teams.
Our 1-hour session introduces CQ as a concept, exploring how to build culturally intelligent teams. It introduces the CQ® Model and begins to explore how our cultural values guide our thinking and impact our behaviours.
Our CQ learning bites can be offered as once-off webinars or as a series, as well as in-person events.
What is Cultural Intelligence CQ®?
CQ is a person’s capability to work and relate effectively across culturally diverse contexts. It predicts their effectiveness working with and leading people different to themselves. It comprises of 4 primary capabilities.
Your level of interest, persistence, and confidence during multicultural encounters.
Your understanding of how cultures are similar and different.
Your awareness and ability to plan for multicultural interactions.
Your ability to adapt when relating and working in multicultural contexts.
Applying Cultural Intelligence CQ®
CQ gives key decision-makers the self-awareness to lead with compassion and agility.
CQ enhances team capabilities to communicate and innovate effectively.
CQ offers a roadmap to enable an active allyship practice.
CQ provides a framework to safeguard equitable decision-making.
CQ offers a fresh perspective to enable a strategic approach to DE&I.
CQ & Your Employee Lifecycle
Integrating CQ into every stage of your employee’s journey through your organisation is vital in building the enabling conditions of a truly inclusive workplace.
Are our CQ® Learning Experiences for you?
Our learning experiences are designed for leadership teams, key decision-makers, and line managers keen to build their CQ capabilities and leadership competencies led by empathy, humility, transparency, and accountability. The content supports learners in understanding what CQ® is and how it can build inclusive cultures of belonging.