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May 21, 2017

The Effectiveness of a Course in Inter-Cultural Intelligence

The benefits of pursuing Inter-Cultural Intelligence (ICI) Certification What happens when someone becomes an Inter-Cultural Intelligence...

May 3, 2017

Top Mistakes Leaders Make in Inter-Cultural Environments

Part 3 of 3 The importance of clear expectations around behavior In the third and final part of “Top mistakes leaders make in...

Apr 17, 2017

Successful Leadership in an Intercultural Environment

Part 2 of 3 Key competencies leaders need to develop further In this second part of our series diving into intercultural leading, we look...

Mar 30, 2017

Leadership Mistakes and Successes in Intercultural Situations

Part 1 of 3 Empowering leaders to develop Global Competence through Inter-Cultural Intelligence. All too often we see the same mistakes...

Mar 13, 2017

Cultural Learners Are Critical to M&A Success

The potential dangers to mergers and acquisitions in inter-cultural markets: how to meet the challenge. Cultural Learners are critical to...

Feb 26, 2017

Intercultural Teamwork: Innovation & Information Sharing

Part 3 of 3 – Information Flow Teaming as a Technical, Transactional, & Relational Exercise Leads to New Levels of Innovation and...

Feb 8, 2017

Building Intercultural Teams

Part 2 of 3 Managing Transactional and Relational Elements within Teams In Part I of this series we looked at the four elements of...

Jan 22, 2017

Intercultural Teamwork: Dealing With Added Complexity

Part 1 of 3 How to deal with extra complexity in the global workspace. Teaming has changed dramatically in the past few years. Today,...

Jan 5, 2017

Competencies for Leadership in Inter-Cultural Environments

17 recommended competencies developed by the Kozai Group. While most business leaders and leadership educators agree that preparing...

Dec 20, 2016

Intercultural Conflict Resolution Using the Three Colors of Worldview

How to improve your communication and avoid costly mistakes. A few years ago one of our team members met with a lawyer in South Africa on...

Dec 4, 2016

Focusing on Results With a Multicultural Team

Cross-Cultural Facilitation with the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™, part 5 of 5 "All eyes are on you. Twenty or so coworkers from...

Nov 16, 2016

Accountability on a Multicultural Team

Cross-Cultural Facilitation with the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™, part 4 of 5 "All eyes are on you. Twenty or so coworkers from...

Nov 1, 2016

Commitment on a Multicultural Team

Cross-Cultural Facilitation with the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™, part 3 of 5 "All eyes are on you. Twenty or so coworkers from...

Oct 16, 2016

Constructive Conflict on a Multicultural Team

Cross-Cultural Facilitation with the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™, part 2 of 5 "All eyes are on you. Twenty or so coworkers from...

Sep 29, 2016

The Trust Discussion on a Multicultural Team

Cross-Cultural Facilitation with the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™, part 1 of 5 "All eyes are on you. Twenty or so coworkers from...

Sep 11, 2016

Misalignment in Teams

Misalignment causes teams to underperform with roots often difficult to discern. A lack of trust prevents alignment Team misalignment is...

Aug 24, 2016

10 Key Articles on Inter-Cultural Intelligence

Dive deeper into the applications of Inter-Cultural Intelligence KnowledgeWorkx has built up quite a library of articles on...

Aug 8, 2016

Three Colors of Worldview in Action

How an Innocence-Guilt question led to dishonor in an Honor-Shame context From time to time, we share stories that illustrate lessons we...

Jul 21, 2016

Aligning Intercultural Teams

Part 2 of 2 For at least two decades, high-performance teaming and optimal alignment have been trending in the field of team leadership...

Jul 4, 2016

Inter-Cultural Intelligence to Calibrate Your Team

Part 1 of 2 There are multiple angles from which to look at leadership team alignment, but applying Inter-Cultural Intelligence takes it...

Jun 14, 2016

The Missing Element of Intercultural Teams

Building trust among intercultural team members Our previous article on Building Intercultural Teams presented the Four Elements of...