Cultural Quotient (CQ)

Cultural Quotient (CQ)

knowing and understanding culture differences is hugely beneficial to developing faster positive responsiveness to changes. In turn, this represents better business practice.

Having a high CQ enables individuals and organizations to distinguish behaviors driven by culture from those specific to an individual. As a result, both the individual and organization are able to make astute better decisions leading to favorable outcomes.

It is the combination of knowledge and skills and attitudes that enable you to accurately assess, wisely take action, effectively interact and thus successfully manage your work and team.

This is something unattainable with IQ or EQ alone. By applying global insight, not only will we understand the various cultures, we will know how to behave accordingly and competently when met with different situations.

It is the ability to co-create a new cultural space for your team to be successful. This will definitely require knowledge about you and about cultures. In order to attain that, the desire to be a culture learner is of utmost importance.

The ability to anticipate and interpret accurately in order to adjust to the culturally-defined behaviours of others is a skill that needs to be acquired.