When leaders focus on improving their ability to navigate intercultural interactions successfully and build meaningful relationships with employees, clients, or customers who are culturally different from them, they will experience and enjoy the desired positive outcomes.
Sights on Success Consulting’s learning and development philosophy is to support and sustain leaders in their developmental journey for the long term. In view of this philosophy, Sights on Success Consulting helps leaders to achieve their strategic objectives by offering and facilitating the following preeminent learning and development services and tools:
The Intercultural Development Inventory® and Debrief
The Intercultural Development Inventory® measures intercultural development for individuals along the Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC TM). The IDI® provides baseline information about an individual’s intercultural development to facilitate self-awareness about her or his orientation to and engagement with cultural differences and similarities. Increasing self-awareness is fundamental for developing a plan to improve the individual’s capability with bridging cultural differences successfully.
Sights on Success Consulting offers the IDI® as a prerequisite and entry point for participation in other service offerings.
Please contact Sights on Success Consulting to arrange an individual or group sitting of the IDI® online and an individual debrief session in person.
Leadership Coaching
In general terms, leadership coaching focuses on enhancing performance and impact for leaders at all levels. It is an individualized and guided process that builds a leader’s capability to achieve short and long-term organizational goals.
In terms of building capability with cultural differences, leadership coaching helps the individual client to design an intercultural development plan based on her or his developmental profile, interests, and priorities, and to support the client to overcome obstacles and follow through on achieving objectives.
Sights on Success Consulting offers a variety of packages for leadership coaching to meet the individual client’s needs and accommodate her or his schedule. Please contact Sights on Success Consulting for more details.
Peer Mentoring Cross-Cultural Sharing Circle
Sights on Success Consulting designs and facilitates customized cross-cultural sharing circles to help leaders and teams improve their capability with cultural differences.
The cross-cultural sharing circle, as designed by Sights on Success Consulting, has proven to be a powerful learning and development tool. It helps participants to build on their knowledge of cultural differences in a safe, supportive, and constructive environment. Each participant is regarded as a mentor who teaches others about her or his own culture: values, beliefs, practices, etc. The expression, peer mentoring suggests that all cultures are believed to be equal. Each culture is neither more nor less valuable than another.
In addition, the cross-cultural sharing circle helps participants to increase their awareness of cultural differences and their self-awareness about their own culture. They also learn to develop some key attitudes such as humility, empathy, and being non-judgmental, and some key skills such as listening that are necessary for improving their capability to bridge cultural differences.
The cross-cultural sharing circle is offered on a regular basis during a period determined by the client to provide the most advantage and value. In order to participate in the sharing circle, the client must first complete the IDI® and debrief.
Please contact Sights on Success Consulting to arrange a cross-cultural sharing circle package for your team or group.
Research-based Presentations
Researched-based presentations are offered on a variety of topics related to improving capability with cultural differences. Sights on Success Consulting has many years of experience giving high-quality presentations to a variety of audiences including specific interest groups and at professional development conferences.
Please contact Sights on Success Consulting to arrange a presentation on a specific topic of interest.
Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory®
The Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory® measures an individual’s core or authentic approach for resolving conflicts. It helps the client to understand her or his and other people’s approaches for resolving conflicts in order to make the necessary adaptations.
The Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory® can be included in a leadership coaching package. Individual clients need to complete the IDI® before taking the ICS Inventory®.
Please contact Sights on Success Consulting for more details about incorporating the ICS Inventory® into your coaching package.
“Angeline Chia has been an excellent resource for me in pursuing my professional development goals, particularly in the area of Intercultural Competence. Angeline has coached me through exploring workplace solutions and has provided the IDI Assessment, debriefing, goal-setting, IDI reassessment and professional development planning. In this and other roles, Angeline has demonstrated a very high level of professionalism and commitment to her clients. I will be continuing to work with Angeline this year as she provides coaching to further pursue my intercultural development. This will significantly contribute to my effectiveness in my role as a public school EAL Teacher.”
— Loretta Paoli
