What Does Global Fluency Look Like?
Value, respect, and learn from diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, sexual orientations, and religions.
The individual demonstrates, openness, inclusiveness, sensitivity, and the ability to interact respectfully with all people and understand individuals’ differences.
How to Develop Global Fluency:
- Demonstrate openness, inclusiveness, sensitivity, and the ability to interact respectfully with all people.
- Understand individuals' differences.
- Manage projects and teams across geographical and cultural boundaries.
- Build stronger internal working relationships.
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Ways You Can Be Culturally Fluent TODAY:
Learn a new language or participate in social organizations which focus on various cultures. Travel or study abroad. Push yourself to work in a more diverse environment when possible.
Reflection Prompts:
- How have you worked towards inclusive practices?
- When was a time when you recognized and overcame your cultural biases?
- When was a time you worked on a team with individuals from different cultural backgrounds?
Did You Know?
By incorporating Global/Intercultural fluency in ones career, they can support local and overseas staff to integrate and adapt to culturally diverse working environments and compete better in diverse markets and expand into new international territories.