Business-Aligned® Intercultural Development Inventory Applications to Build Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

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This page discusses Business-Aligned® applications of the Intercultural Development Inventory, IDI, that grow businesses and develop leaders and individuals in organizations. IDI measures and enables development of  "core intercultural competence," which is:

• Relevant to virtually any organization, domestic or global, with a diverse and/or cross-cultural workforce or customer base.
• About the mindset regarding diversity and cultural difference of an individual, team, or entire organization. This is the extent to which diversity and cultural difference tend to be avoided, thought of in polarizing terms, acknowledged and minimized, or fully valued and understood for its full effect and potential.
• A "culture-general" skill applicable to situations involving all dimensions of diversity and cultural difference. This includes organizations whose customers are other organizations - bear in mind that your customer organizations also have a diverse and/or cross-cultural workforce making their purchase decisions!

MDB Group applies the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) to measure and provide a basis for developing core intercultural competence. Our Business-Aligned® D&I methods engage individuals and teams when they see the effect of their mindset about diversity and cultural difference on their business results. In today's global marketplace for talent and business,

IDI is an essential business productivity tool.

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The ability to communicate effectively with people of different backgrounds, cultures, or perspectives is essential to creating an inclusive, productive, and innovative workplace. This capability, called well-developed core intercultural competence, is the basis for leveraging peoples’ inputs to improve profitability and business results and to grow your organization.

Training, coaching, and development are more effective when done using the IDI. Why? Learning interventions can take two approaches:

• “Meet” the participants at their current developmental readiness and use stage-appropriate techniques to encourage development.
• Attempt transformation by confronting the participants with significantly more advanced concepts of inclusion and cultural sensitivity than they likely are ready to process.

Research and experience show that the developmental approach is more likely to have a constructive outcome whereas the transformational approach carries with it a higher risk of creating upset and backlash.

IDI enables the more-effective developmental approach. The participants' current level of core intercultural competence can be measured accurately. Stage-appropriate development may then be designed and implemented for each participant or group of participants.

IDI is used with individuals, teams, and organizations. The following table summarizes typical IDI applications:

MDB Group is pleased to provide certified IDI administrators to work with you in any capacity needed. We provide complete coaching and developmental interventions based on the IDI. We also provide administration and interpretation services to other consultants in support of their work with their clients.

Please call us; we will be happy to discuss how you may realize the full business benefits of the Intercultural Development Inventory.

 

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The Intercultural Development Inventory is a valuable diagnostic and development tool. It has applications in building individual and team effectiveness, improving cross cultural communication and teamwork, conflict management, executive coaching, and general workplace assessments.

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