Issue
Several current trends increase the need for productivity,
innovation, and creativity that leverages diversity in
the workplace:
- Customers, both consumer and business, are becoming
more diverse, educated, and demanding.
- You need a steady stream of products, services, marketing
strategies, and sales plans that exceed your existing
and prospective customers’ expectations.
- You must do this more quickly and better than your
competitors.
It’s about productivity, innovation,
and creativity. Today and every day.
Competition is increasing, so your customers have ready alternatives
if you cannot meet their needs. These competitive pressures
also limit your ability to increase prices to drive revenue.
Increasingly, your primary potential competitive advantage
is your workforce. Diversity can ensure a large pool of knowledge,
skills, life experience, perspectives, and expertise.
Productivity,
innovation, and creativity are about making effective use
of this capacity. Success will drive revenues
up while simultaneously reducing operating expenses.
Solution
Building team and organization effectiveness is key to building
productivity, innovation, and creativity.
As
teams and organizations become ever more diverse, it is essential
that employees have a strong ability to communicate and work
well with people of different cultural backgrounds. This
helps engage everyone. All available perspectives get considered,
enhancing creative problem solving to generate more effective
business results. This
is true inclusion.
Effectively and appropriately communicating and
working with people of different cultural backgrounds is
the definition of being interculturally competent.
In today's complex business environment, developing individual,
team, and organization
intercultural
competence is central to realizing the full potential for
productivity, innovation, and creativity. This
holds true for all teams and organizations, local or global.
To build intercultural competence, MDB Group uses the
Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).
IDI is a theory-based diagnostic instrument that measures
individual or group intercultural sensitivity and competence.
It indicates how the individual or group thinks and feels
about cultural difference and thus their competence in communicating
and working with people of different backgrounds,
cultures, or perspectives. IDI also provides a guide to individual
and team development.
MDB Group is certified to provide this outstanding instrument
as part of our team development services.
MDB Group’s principals have developed and implemented
plans to build productivity, innovation, and creativity.
We have used IDI to build leadership team effectiveness,
designed multimedia toolkits for team building and team development,
facilitated teams to improve their business results, and
done interventions to generate more productive and innovative
work environments.
We are ready to help you achieve
the results you need.
Sample results
See representative results achieved by MDB Group's principals
at
Workforce Productivity, Innovation, and Creativity.
Related links
Building productivity, innovation, and
creativity frequently relates to several other aspects of
diversity and inclusion. Click the links below for more insight:
