Seminar on Assessing Intercultural Competencies
The Use, Evaluation, and Application of Intercultural Competencies Instrumentation in the Profit and Not-for-Profit Sectors
Seminar Leaders: Allan Bird and Michael Stevens
Date: July 14-16, 2010. For location and enrollment details, click here.
Various inventories and questionnaires exist that can be used to assess individuals’ intercultural skills for purposes of awareness-building, training and development, curriculum evaluation, institutional assessment, and personal managerial development. This seminar will review the spectrum of inventories currently in use and will give participants the opportunity to use the tools and apply them in organizational case scenarios.
Learning Activities
The workshop will be highly interactive, and will include the following experiences:
- Active learning through case studies and team discussion of readings
- Peer exchange of inventory scores and assessments
- Team generation of various types of program and intervention designs based on inventory results
- Giving and receiving coaching based on inventory results
- Strategic human resource management planning scenario building
