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                                                                             Intercultural Competence is necessary and Intercultural Development gets us there.
In[ter]Sights is a "Qualified Administrator" of the IDI* and facilitates direct sales and administration of the IDI.

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In[ter]Sights also provides services utilizing the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory* and facilitates direct sales and administration of the ICSI.

The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI*) - A fundamental aspect of any multicultural environment is cultural difference. How one perceives their own openness to difference and actually engages such difference significantly influences the related intercultural relations and outcomes. The IDI is the leader in the field in identifying an individual's or organization's perception and approach to engaging cultural difference. Only when we begin to understand these aspects of the intercultural environment can training, coaching, dialogue facilitation, or consulting be successfully pursued. Until then, our efforts will largely be a "shot in the dark."

         IDI Characteristics:
  • 50 item instrument
  • Allows for the creation and customization of organization-specific open-end questions
  • Able to be administered online or on paper
  • Available in 12 languages
  • Has been "back translated" to insure linguistic relevancy
  • Able to generate both individual results and collective group results
  • Ability to gather your organization's demographic information
  • Most effective when supplemented with individual and group interviews

When utilized in the framework of our comprehensive process for enhancing intercultural environments, you will find that the IDI results, demographic information, and interviews together ensure a targeted and relevant approach to enhancing your intercultural environment.

The Intercultural Conflict Styles Inventory (ICSI*) - Inherent in any conflict, whether intercultural or not, are differences in opinion, values, and desired outcomes. Throw in different approaches to engaging conflict and the situation becomes ripe for chronic debate or unresolved conflict. Not only are the desired outcomes different but the assumed ground rules for how the individuals debate and pursue resolution of the conflict are different. Even when people are speaking the same language, both parties feel like the other is speaking a different "language". The ICSI sheds light on this other "language" and gives the parties involved in intercultural conflict a basic understanding regarding what the expectations (i.e., assumed ground rules) are for how it is they will or can solve the conflict. Once this understanding is established, reconciling the different desired outcomes (which becomes much more achievable) becomes the focus, rather than the desire to project one's anger or frustration onto the other. Put another way, the ICSI and our comprehensive process together allow those involved in conflict to simultaneously engage in (i.e., not avoid) conflict and identifying the ground rules (i.e., unspoken expectations) to be used, the absence of which are often a primary bottleneck in solving intercultural conflict.

For more information on the ICSI email us at info@intersights.net
*InterSights is able to administer the IDI and make it available to you through a license obtained from IDI, LLC. InterSights and IDI, LLC are not associated with each other but work collaboratively yet independently from each other. The ICSI is a proprietary instrument of Mitchell R. Hammer, Ph.D. and is distributed through Hammer Consulting.