Cultural Intelligence Measurement

As part of the CQ measurement, our Cultural values (Behavioural preferences) can be mapped. This reveals our preferences across 10 dimensions, revealing insights into how we view the world and ourselves within it.  Cultural values shape our approach to work, relationships, and life in general, informing beliefs, behaviours, decision-making, etc.  Appreciating where our cultural values and preferences are similar and/or different from those of others can provide insights into individual and team interactions.

A team cultural values/behavioural preference profile can provide a ‘current shape/state’ assessment that illuminates communication preferences, conflict handling approaches, deference to authority tendencies, etc.  Trust, collaboration, and innovation within teams can be enhanced in teams with high CQ, and behavioural preference profiles can aid individual and team understanding, enabling the pursuit of opportunities to enhance effectiveness.

Within a context of organisation stakeholders serving diverse communities with products and services, undertaking a CQ assessment can be a valuable tool to provide insights into how individuals function across different types of culture, including in domestic contexts, e.g. Multicultural teams, as part of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion programmes, and across national cultures, ethnic, generational, organisational, functional and professional cultures, etc.

CQ (as differentiated from an array of cultural competence models) looks at culture in its broadest sense rather than focusing solely on Race or ethnicity. As such, CQ encompasses intersectionality.

CQ is based on rigorous academic research with evidence that reveals that culturally intelligent organisations are more likely to achieve performance goals, and a leader’s CQ can mean the difference between thriving in our globalised, 21st-century world and becoming outdated.

Benefits of CQ assessments include:

• CQ is rigorously validated academically
• Individuals who undertake CQ assessments are benchmarked against individuals worldwide.
• CQ identifies strengths and capabilities that can be developed to support personal
  effectiveness in culturally diverse contexts.
• Increased self-awareness – particularly – how members might impact others.
• The potential of evidence-based tracking (via ‘Pre’ and ‘Post’ CQ Assessments) as an effective way to measure CQ growth/development (at an individual, team, or leadership/occupational level, etc.)
• You will be benchmarked alongside a global community (currently, over 250,000+ people have been CQ assessed across over 160 countries). By undertaking a CQ assessment, you will be in good company and be evaluated against worldwide standards/norms.