Cultural Intelligence Assessments

Unless you’re living in a cave with only your immediate family, it’s virtually impossible to overrate the value in you experiencing a CQ assessment. Even if your family is in a cave, your partner has come from a distinct family of origin, so you are dealing with intercultural relationships which will be either very frustrating or enriching.

The CQ assessment has the distinction of being one of only a couple assessments that research confirms will accurately predict your effectiveness when crossing cultures. The other one seems politically skewed. If you answer a couple questions that feel more political than intercultural in certain ways, it seems to affect your results. I have never heard anyone suggest that the CQ assessment harbors that problem.

The CQ assessment will help you see how you are doing in 4 major capabilities with multiple sub-dimensions under each ability. Then, you get the opportunity to chart out your development aims for the next lap of your intercultural experience—where you want to grow, and what you choose to do to move on your plan. I will help you through a 30 minute debrief clarifying for you what the assessment indicates and then coaching you as you craft your own CQ development plan.

There are various ways you can experience the CQ assessment—going from what I would call CQ assessment-lite to CQ assessment-robust. The more robust, the more likely you are to thrive at CQ!

On the lite end you can take a basic self-rated CQ assessment to see how you think you’re doing.

A deeper look involves a 360° multi-rater where you elicit people who have witnessed you in intercultural interactions rate you as well as you rating yourself. The more colleagues who rate you the better for accurate results. On the assessment report you’ll see the whole range of scores for each sub-dimension as well as the average given by people rating you. And you’ll see any substantial variations between how you rate yourself and how others rated you. Sometimes you may find that you rate yourself higher than people who observe you, helpfully revealing a blind spot. But sometimes you may find that your colleagues rate you much higher than you pictured yourself—offering encouragement!

Even more helpful will be if you take a 360° CQ team assessment, and your whole team develops a robust development plan for each individual and for the team as whole.

And most robust of all is if you take a Pre/Post 360° CQ assessment. This is what serious companies like Coca Cola have done with groups of their young high potential prospective directors. You, or your team, take your CQ assessment now, develop your growth plan for the next six months or year, then you take it again to track the vectors of how you are doing. Then, you tweak your development plan and keep growing.

I would be delighted to help you with any of these options. Because I yearn to see people grow to their maximal potential, and the world needs you to show up at your best, I will ask you to consider a 360° or team or Pre/Post assessment. But I’m here to serve you, so we can go with whatever you feel up to engaging.