Intercultural Development Assessments and Plans
Cultural difference exists across multiple dimensions, including differences of geography, faith, ethnicity, and much more. Intercultural competence is your ability to understand and respond to cultural differences, and it’s essential for success the workplace, school, community settings, and in your personal life. Using the Intercultural Development Inventory, Calibrated Educational Consulting can help you, your team, and your students understand and grow your cultural competence.
Learn more about the Intercultural Development Inventory and how to use it.
For your team
Your team hopes to grow the strength and scope of your intercultural work. The Intercultural Development Inventory and Planning workshop helps everyone understand the value of intercultural competence, your team’s current capacity, and develop a collective plan for growing your abilities.
Costs start at $1000 + $23/participant.
Individual reports and plans can be purchased separately or with the team package at a discount.
For educational sanctions
When students are struggling to learn more about how their own cultural norms fit into college life, that can create harms for themselves and other community members. Having spent 25 years working with college students in spaces of harm, I know the Intercultural Development Inventory is a profound tool for increasing students’ understanding of themselves, their actions, and their place in community. The IDI sanction is part of Calibrated Outcomes.
Cost is $266/student. Because this is individualized, the costs are higher than the $40 for most Calibrated Outcomes. Like other Calibrated Outcomes, you can decide if/how your institution and your student share costs, and a 10% discount will be applied to a purchase of 10+ registrations.
Register your school to start using the IDI and other Calibrated Outcomes offerings, or set up a time to learn more.
For student development
Your students are navigating new cultural norms in school and anticipating them in a competitive career environment. Help them gain self-understanding, an intercultural competence developing plan, and new capacities to articulate how their cultural understanding is a value-add in their personal, professional, and academic lives. Like all our student workshops, this is part of Calibrated Outcomes, which is developed to include sanctioned students, the general student body, and student leaders.
Cost is $266/student. You can decide if/how your institution and your students share costs, and a 10% discount will be applied to a purchase of 10+ registrations.
Register your school to start using the IDI and other Calibrated Outcomes offerings, or set up a time to learn more.
For professionals
Maybe you’re looking for a new way to grow your capacity to lead in a diverse setting and articulate that for your growing career. Maybe your a team leader, coaching a great professional who needs to target their development to work more effectively across difference. These moments can all benefit from the Intercultural Development Inventory and Development Plan. The aspiring professional will take the Intercultural Development Inventory. Then, I meet with them to provide and interpret their results. From there, we develop and individualized plan for their growth over the next six months to a year.
This is available as a stand-alone offering or for individuals to gain more personal insight after a team IDI workshop.
Cost is $276 for education and non-profit employees, and $285 for all others. Groups of 10+ will receive a 10% discount.
Register for your personal IDI workshop or set up a time to learn more.
About the Intercultural Development Inventory and Plan
What is the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)?
The IDI is a psychometric instrument developed by Dr. Mitchell Hammer and based on the Intercultural Development Continuum. The IDI measures an individual’s or group’s progression along a developmental path of making sense of and responding to cultural differences. You can learn more about the research and methodology of the IDI on their website.
To begin, participants complete the Intercultural Development Inventory online. Responding to the 50 questions takes about 20-30 minutes. Then, I’ll receive your results and develop a presentation customized to your specific results. The presentation will cover intercultural competence generally, what your results indicate, and what steps you can take to grow your capacity for intercultural competence. You’ll leave the workshop with a plan for specific action steps that both align with your interests and are targeted to help your individual capacity increase.
What will we learn?
My favorite aspect of the IDI is that it not only increases your understanding of you or your team’s current capacity for intercultural competence, but it provides a targeted framework for planning on how to grow your intercultural competence. This assessment doesn’t just tell you where you are, it tells you how to grow in the ways that align with your interests and goals. I’ve taken the IDI three times, and can confirm my personal experience. Participants in the IDI workshops will learn to understand what intercultural competence means and why it matters, what their own current capacity is for intercultural competence, including the challenges and strengths of that level. Then, we target specific actions to increase your intercultural competence that align with your interests and your specific goals.
How is this different than other assessments I’ve used like Myers-Briggs and Conflict Modes?
All of those are psychometric tools that help you understand yourself and how you interact with the world around you. They can all be used with teams or individuals. I’ve found all of them useful and I have used them for myself and my teams over the years (and I love facilitating conflict modes workshops). For me as a user and a facilitator, the first significant of the IDI is that it specifically assesses intercultural competence. This isn’t about how you work broadly or how you interact in every situation. This helps you understand specifically how you interact across cultural differences. The second big difference is that Myers-Briggs and Conflict Modes teach you where you are and, in some cases, suggest those are relatively static characteristics that you should learn to maximize. The IDI is aligned with a growth mindset—that we can all, throughout our lives, continue to improve. Not only is the IDI based in that growth mindset, but the report and our planning process help you figure out the next best steps that are specific to your growth and development.
Can I just take the IDI on my own without working through Calibrated Educational Consulting?
The IDI’s creators generally require that a trained facilitator (they use the term “Qualified Administrator” or QA) administer and debrief the IDI with a user, so I’m not permitted to provide your results without facilitation. They do host an online program for college students that can be a worthwhile investment if you’re using the IDI at scale with students. That still requires some facilitation training, but if you’re planning on assigning this at the scale of an entire incoming class, that may be worthwhile. If you’re interested in the IDI but I’m not the right facilitator for you, you can ask me for other recommendations or you can search their online QA database. If you’re interested in learning to facilitate the IDI, more information about that is available on their website.
Why does the student IDI cost slightly less than the professional IDI?
The IDI charges slightly less for students to complete the IDI, so I pass that small savings on to clients. You can learn more about their pricing on their website.
Why does the IDI workshop cost more than other Calibrated Outcomes workshops?
Other Calibrated Outcomes workshops are designed for group learning. The IDI provides an individualized assessment, results, and planning process. The extra cost covers my work of 1-1 development and facilitation.
How can I learn more?
You can email me info@calibrateducational.com or set up a free consultation to discuss whether the IDI will meet your needs. If you want to learn more about the IDI as an instrument, you can visit their website.
How can I schedule an individual IDI?
For individual, virtual workshops, you can register and pay online. For in-person or group appointments, you can complete this form or email info@calibrateducational.com.
Please be sure you allow at least three weeks before your workshop. That will give you time to complete the IDI and give me time to analyze your individual results and develop the framework for your personal development plan.
How can I schedule a team IDI?
The first step is to complete this form. After that, I’ll be in touch about dates and exact costs for your group. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email info@calibrateducational.com.