Intercultural Competence for Faculty and Staff

This workshop is intended for faculty and staff who are interested in developing skills for navigating cultural differences when working with colleagues, students and others in their day-to-day work. The session will provide participants with their own personalized, confidential assessment of their current strengths and challenges around navigating differences and an individualized Intercultural Development Plan to assist in further developing their intercultural skills. 

You will leave this session with an understanding of:

• definitions of culture, cultural difference and intercultural competency
• how you situate on the Intercultural Development Continuum
• your own cultural identity and how it may influence your intercultural effectiveness
• how your intercultural competency skills can contribute to navigating and valuing difference in your work
• how implicit bias can influence your view of others on an unconscious level
• how your colleagues’ and students’ stages of intercultural development can influence their intercultural effectiveness in group work, research and the classroom
• how to further develop your intercultural competency

What is involved

Registration closes February 6, 2025 at 4:30 pm. Participants will be provided with a link to complete the Intercultural Development Inventory[1]. This on-line survey takes 15-20 minutes and must be submitted by February 21st to allow the facilitator to compile results[2]. More information about the IDI can be found at https://idiinventory.com/publications/.

Cost

Free (Note the usual cost of $30/person will be waived for this introductory offering of this program). We will be relying on your feedback and advocacy to take this forward.

Facilitator

Lynne A. Mitchell, Director & ILO, Centre for International Programs

Registration

Register through Qualtrics! Registration closes February 6, 2025 at 4:30 pm. Please cancel at least 2 weeks prior to the session to ensure we can give your spot to the next person on the waiting list.

Contact

Phone: 56800

Email: landd@uoguelph.ca

Footnotes

[1] a 50-question survey designed by Dr. Mitchell Hammer and based on the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity by Dr. Milton Bennett (Hammer, M.R., Bennett, M.J. and Wiseman, R. (2003). Measuring intercultural sensitivity: The intercultural development inventory, International Journal of Intercultural Relations 27(4): 421-443).”

[2 ]Individual survey results are confidential and not shared beyond the facilitator and the individual participant. Participants may request an individual debrief of their specific results on a date following the group workshop.