Additional Training Highlights:
- Reframe diversity as synergy to elevate leader effectiveness.
- Drive inclusive team culture through practical perspective-taking and honesty.
- Leverage CQ skills and structured interviews to curb bias in hiring.
You Will Receive
Behavioral Preferences Starter
A 10-minute e-learning introducing behavioral preferences and why they matter.
4 Hour Virtual Workshop
Our Developing Cultural Intelligence (CQ) virtual workshop goes beyond cultural awareness to the next level by utilizing peer-reviewed research and recognized methods to build an individual’s cultural intelligence.
CQ Pro Assessment and Personal Feedback Report
The CQ Pro Assessment measures your ability to work and relate across global cultures by measuring skills in four distinct areas. It also includes a valuable analysis of your behavioral preferences across ten values. It is the starting point of your CQ journey and gives you a benchmark from which to improve your effectiveness.
Cultural Intelligence for Team Leaders Participant Guide
Guidebook packed with practical strategies and tips to help team leaders improve and apply Cultural Intelligence in their teams.
Expand Your Borders
A 100-page guidebook for understanding key cultural similarities and differences across the 10 largest cultural clusters in the world.
Behavioral Preferences Leader Cards
Team leader interactions and effectiveness can be improved by understanding differences in cultural value preferences and the importance of behavioral flexibility. The digital Behavioral Preferences Leader Cards define 10 behavioral preferences, identify questions behind each preference, provide tips for working effectively across differences, and offer insights and practical applications for leveraging cultural value differences as team assets.
Applying CQ in Everyday Life
A 1-hour eLearning course that provides compelling reasons why Cultural Intelligence is valuable in everyday life, knowledge about the four most common behavioral preferences with rich examples, and information on how team leaders can apply the CQ model at work and in life. The course also allows Team Leaders to practice applying CQ in real-world scenarios and complete action plans for improving and applying their CQ.
The Research Review Video (short version)
This 5–8-minute interactive video presents a situation where a diverse group of researchers conducts a post-mortem review on a medication that didn’t get approved. Communication challenges arise due to cultural differences. Viewers answer questions about differences in behavioral preferences, and how to resolve the misunderstandings and improve team interactions. This activity helps viewers understand different behavioral preferences and practice applying Cultural Intelligence (CQ) when preferences differ.
The Brainstorm (short version)
This 6–10-minute interactive video presents a scenario where a company’s marketing team and engineering team discuss their concerns about launching a product that the engineers recently developed. Viewers choose a role, review the discussion, and answer questions about the challenges and potential solutions to improve team interactions. Viewers then answer quiz questions which are scored like a game - a fun way to practice Cultural Intelligence while thinking on your feet.
Certificate of Completion and Digital Badge
A downloadable sharable credential you can embed in your email signature, print out, or use however you wish.
Workshop Details:
Schedule and Objectives
Workshop Agenda and Objectives
Introduction and the Challenges of Having Different Preferences
- Identify the challenges of working across differences.
- Identify the challenges of working across differences.
- Develop strategies for applying CQ Drive to increase team motivation to address the challenges of working across differences.
Team Management
- Describe how to apply the benefits of perspective-taking in your team.
- Practice techniques for enhancing psychological safety in your team so that different behavioral preferences are viewed as opportunities for synergy.
- Describe the benefits of intellectual honesty and develop plans for reinforcing intellectual honesty in your team.
Enhanced Hiring Strategies
- Describe the implications of culture ‘fit’.
- Develop practical strategies for avoiding bias in hiring.
- Practice behavioral interviewing
Reflection
- Summarize the benefits and challenges of bridging differences in behavioral preferences in your team.
- Summarize the benefits and challenges of perspective-taking in your team.
- Summarize the benefits and challenges of avoiding bias in hiring.
- Devise actionable strategies for bridging differences among your team members.
Conclusion
- Q&A and session wrap-up.
Fees, Cancellation, and Transfer Policy
Contact us for group discounts.
Full payment is due upon registration and is non-refundable. However, we will allow a registrant the one-time option to transfer their registration to another available session within one calendar year, so long as written (email) notice is provided to the CQ Center 5 days prior to the workshop start date. If a registrant provides less than 5 days’ notice of a transfer request, an administrative fee of $100 USD will be assessed.
If a registrant fails to attend a workshop and no notice is provided before the workshop starts, that individual will be considered a “no-show” and will not be eligible for a refund or to transfer that registration.
We reserve the right to cancel a workshop session 30 days out. Full refunds will be given if we do so.
Available Dates and Locations:
You will choose your date/time after purchase in the CQC Learning Portal.
All times below are in your local time zone / Registration for a session will close at 12:00 AM Eastern Time 2 days before the day of the session.
October
14
2025
Tuesday
1:00
Virtual
Local Time: Oct 14 2025 | 1:00
November
7
2025
Friday
9:00
Virtual
Local Time: Nov 7 2025 | 9:00
December
19
2025
Friday
11:00
Virtual
Local Time: Dec 19 2025 | 11:00