Our Areas of Expertise
Cultural Competence
Cultural Competence and Inclusion Go Hand in Hand
Cultural competence refers to our ability to notice, learn about, understand, and adapt to cultural differences. Team members who have heightened cultural competence are more inclusive in how they work and lead.
Cultural Competence Leads to Inclusive Environments
Cultural competence is an acumen that must be embedded across an organization’s systems and practices in order to be inclusive. Through targeted training and consulting services, bci teaches leaders and team members how to work more inclusively across cultures, including how to be more adaptive in embracing a range of behavioral differences.
Why Choose bci for Cultural Competence Training
Cultural competence is an essential skill for building a more inclusive organizational culture. It is a critical DEI area that is best taught in conjunction with frameworks on interrupting unconscious biases, all of which we have extensive expertise in. At bci, we have facilitated hundreds of workshops for executive leaders and teams on how to heighten their cultural competency through a few key educational pillars:
Cultural Lens Awareness
Understanding how your own cultural identities impact your behavioral preferences and your unconscious biases
Bias Interruption
Learning how to identify your discomfort with differences and how this impacts your interactions with team members whose behavioral preferences are different than your own
Becoming Adaptive
Focusing on adapting your behavior to be more inclusive of other ways of behaving when working across cultural differences
We Help Organizations to Embed Cultural Competence in Talent Management
Inclusive talent management is critical for creating organizational cultures that support the advancement of professionals from equity-seeking communities. At bci, we work extensively with organizations across industries to embed a cultural lens across key talent management areas, including recruitment, work allocation, mentorship and sponsorship, performance management, and promotions.
Did You Know?
Your cultural lens impacts how you act.
In teaching about cultural competence, it’s critical to focus on the development of your ‘cultural lens’.
When you have a developed cultural lens, you’re better able to identify how your cultural identities impact not just your behavior, but your judgments of how others behave. You’re also able to better adapt your behaviors when working across differences. This is essential for being inclusive.
All of bci’s cultural competence training can be offered virtually or in-person.
Develop Cultural Competence Within Your Organization with the Intercultural Development Inventory
The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) is the leading tool to measure the cultural competence of an individual leader, a team, or an organization.
At bci, we’ve now administered the IDI to tens of thousands of leaders, and thousands of leadership teams, to benchmark and develop their cultural competency. Reach out to us to ask how you can leverage the IDI within your organization.
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