INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCY
ASSESSMENT + VIRTUAL WORKSHOP + COACHING
September 2022
It’s time to say yes to your personal growth.
Leaders across Minnesota's aging sector recognize that our ability to individually and collectively navigate cultural differences affects what we're able to accomplish - and that we all have room for growth and development!
So, how would you assess your intercultural competence or that of your leadership team? Together, we'll eliminate the guess work using the proven Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and by wrapping around you the training, tools and supports needed to enhance your intercultural competency.
The individualized reports and coaching you'll receive as part of this program will help you to build a practical, actionable, and customized blueprint towards enhancing your personal cultural competency.
Join a statewide cohort of leaders, including delegates of the Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging as we also review our Group Profile Report to understand how Minnesota's aging field can best work together towards more effective management, mentorship and leadership across diverse groups. This is an important step forward in increasing the strength of our state in ways that only come by having diverse, equitable and inclusive organizations - and we want you to be part of our inaugural 2022 Leaders in Aging Cohort!
KEY DATES
Sept. 5-14 Complete your personal IDI assessment online (estimated time: 20 min.)
All attendees should have received a personalized email with instructions from Joanne K. Reeck
Sept. 16 Virtual Intercultural Competency workshop (3 CEUs - from 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.)
All attendees should have received a calendar invite and email with log-in link from Adam Suomala
Sept. 19-30 Private coaching session with an IDI Administrator (60 min.)
All attendees should have received an email with a link to sign-up for your session from Adam Suomala
ADDITIONAL SUPPORTS
October 24 Leadership Lunch check-in and reflection on your IDP (60 min.)
December 15 Leadership Lunch check-in and reflection on your IDP (60 min.)
All attendees should have received a calendar invite (11:30 - 12:30) and Zoom link from Adam Suomala
All convenings will be held virtually on Zoom.
Help us champion diverse, equitable, and inclusive communities in which to age!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Better understand how culture-general and culture-specific differences manifest in the workplace and explore how this understanding often leads to more successful working teams.
- Gain valuable information about your own mindset/skillset toward cultural difference and commonality through use of the Intercultural Development Continuum and along with your Individual Profile Report.
- Use your customized
Intercultural Development Plan (IDP) to complete tangible activities and self-reflections in order to continue your journey of intercultural competency growth.
AUDIENCE
We welcome a broad array of leaders serving across Minnesota's field of aging. We call on non-profit executives, senior management teams, board leadership, state agency staff, policy makers, social workers, licensed nursing home administrators (LNHA), licensed assisted living directors (LALD), nursing leadership, medical directors, higher education faculty, foundation program officers, and others to join our 2022 Leaders in Aging Cohort.
You do
not
need to be a Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging member to register for this series.
REGISTRATION FEE
$475 per person
This all-inclusive fee includes an orientation, link to complete the IDI assessment and receive a personalized Intercultural Development Report, a 3-hour virtual workshop featuring IDI Qualified Administrator and Qualifying Seminar Instructor Joanne Reeck, a 60-minute individual coaching session to explore your results, and access to other supportive wrap-around discussions groups and accountability tools to help ensure your ongoing journey of intercultural competency growth.
PROGRAM FACULTY
WHY WE USE THE IDI
The IDI® is the only theory-based assessment of intercultural competence. Unlike other tools that measure separate personal characteristics (e.g., open-mindedness, flexibility), the IDI allows you to see an individual’s or group’s progression along a continuum of cross-cultural competence. Because of this, the IDI provides in-depth insights on how individuals and groups make sense of cultural differences and also how they respond to cultural differences. The IDI measures both one’s mindset and skillset.
The IDI is the only developmental assessment of intercultural competence. This fundamental focus allows individuals and groups to focus on increasing their intercultural competence (from how they currently engage cultural differences to how they can more effectively engage diversity). The IDI facilitates cooperative conversations and actions directed toward growth and development rather than judgment and resistance.
The IDI allows extensive and in-depth insights on individual and group levels of intercultural competence. This is accomplished through sophisticated, customized IDI Individual Profile Reports and IDI Group Profile Reports. These reports present valid, quantitative information that integrates qualitative information about how an individual or group engages cultural difference in their day-to-day interactions with others.
For each individual who completes the assessment, the IDI creates a customized Intercultural Development Plan (IDP) that guides the person through a series of activities and self-reflections that developmentally build intercultural competence. In addition, IDI Guided Development® is a proprietary, proven approach for designing training and other interventions that substantially increases intercultural competence for groups and organizations based on IDI profile results.
The IDI has been validated to provide a powerful and accurate profile of respondents’ orientations toward a wide range of “other culture” groups, including nationality, ethnicity, gender, and other diversity categories.
The Intercultural Development Inventory has been psychometrically tested and found to possess strong validity and reliability across diverse cultural groups. This validity includes predictive validity within both the corporate and educational sectors. The IDI has been rigorously tested and has cross-cultural generalizability across both international and domestic diversity.
Reviews
- Paige, R.M. (2004). Instrumentation in Intercultural Training. In D. Landis, J.M. Benett & M.J. Bennett (Editors). Handbook of intercultural training (3rd edition) (85-128). Thousand Oaks: CA. Sage.
- Stuart, D. (2009). Assessment instruments for the global workforce. In M.A. Moodian (Editor). Contemporary leadership and intercultural competence (175-190). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Download this 2019 report by Dr. Mitchell Hammer to learn more >
CEUS + DIGITAL BADGE
A printable certificate of attendance and a digital badge are available to all registered attendees.
This program has been approved by the Minnesota Board of Executives for Long Term Services and Supports for 3.0 clock hours (approval number MN23-008). This program has been designed to meet CEU approval criteria for the Minnesota Board of Nursing. Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is an approved provider of continuing education for the Minnesota Board of Social Work. Participants may attend the live session to earn 3 CEUs.
