Intercultural competence and entrepreneurship

1. Intercultural competence and entrepreneurship DOING THINGS DIFFERENTLY

2. What has no power without the how ? • Case for cultural intelligence • New learning and teaching approaches

3. What do I do ? Consultant in communicaion, cultural intelligence, leadership,emotional intelligence

4. 3. Intelligent 4. Profound 2. Simple 5. Empathetic 1. Dynamic

5. Cultural Intelligence A Priority

6. Attributes of a Peak Performer on the international stage Mindset 20% 80% Skillset

7. Challenging some widely held beliefs :- • « Culture stuff » is intuitive, a soft skill that can be improvised. Intercultural communication is an esoteric skill for overseas travellers. • Globalisation means cultures are converging to a common norm • Good communication skills with knowledge of other cultures are sufficient for good international performance • International experience is a guarantee of intercultural competence (the local amateur syndrome)

8. Companies are more and more aware that a failure to develop soft skills is costly and effects the bottom line • Cultural failure negatively effects performance and results • Cultural intelligence begins with self, with own culture and how we are perceived.It’s learning by doing. • The difference between an average international actor and an excellent one is mindset, attitude and behavioural change and it can be learned/developed

9. Cultural Intelligence (CQ) Knowledge about cultures (facts and cultural traits) + awareness/mindfulness(of yourself and others) + specific skills (behaviours) = Cultural Intelligence

10. Awareness/mindfulness CQ Behavioural skills Knowledge

11. What are the implications for teaching • and pedagogical approaches ? • New focus: experiential learning, • (classroom or mobility), individualized • pathways, different teaching methods

12. Right hemisphere Left hemisphere Feeling a rhythm Day dreaming Pictures Imagination Colour Dimension and distance Words Logic Sequence Numbers Lists Analysis Step by step The Corpus Callosum links both

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15. Knowing about ? Being able to do?

16. Objectives of training • Increase knowledge • Raise awareness • Work on values and belief systems • Encourage change and test new behaviours • Means = encouraging new behaviour in the classroom for teaching and assessment • Accepting that young people can be « taught »/helped to develop in this way • Accepting new tools and approaches

17. Intercultural communication schools Theory and research school -traditional sociological and communication perspectives and methods (ex of publication: International and Intercultural communication annual) Theory into practice school -more interdisciplinary, drawing on communication theory, psychology, anthropology, sociolinguistics and other fields (represented by SIETAR Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research/ publictions: International Journal of Intercultural Relations)

19. Multiple Intelligences Measured by standard IQ • Linguistic • Logical/mathmatical • Not measured by standard IQ tests • Spatial • Musical • Body/kinesthetic • Interpersonal • Intrapersonal Components of cultural intelligence

20. Development process ONE WAY My way is the valid one I refuse to adjust MANY WAYS There are many valid ways I’m prepared to adjust William Perry:dualism, multiplicity, relativism, commited relativism Milton Bennett : ethnocentrism to commited ethnorelativism Kohlberg’s 7 stages of moral development