Cultural Intelligence and Leadership The mission statement of an organization has to be the same no mater were the organization has offices and people working but the culture of the organization has to do where the organization is located. The Business dictionary describes Cultural Intelligence as “A measure of a person's capacity to function effectively in a multi-cultural environment. Employers and organizations apply CQ as a way to foster tolerance and enhance cross-cultural interactions” (Business Dictionary, 2018). My understanding of cultural intelligence is that the way a person can understand and adapt to different situations and way of thinking of people from different places. In the Harvard Business Review article Cultural Intelligence …show more content…
These element has three sub-divisions;
a) Awareness “refers to the extent to which one is sensitive to the situation”.
b) Planning “considers how the degree anticipates and prepares for an interaction”.
c) Checking, “examines the degree to which one monitors interactions to determine whether behavior aligns with the perception and plan”
• Behavioral (Action) this element gives infancies on the how the people can adjust to the situations that come up. The behavioral element has three dimensions that describe the patrons that can be encounter and these are Normal actions, Verbal actions, and Speech actions.
These four elements of cultural Intelligence shows that there is more to learn than just know the culture of the place that you are going, it has to do with the character, the way that people talk, the way that people live, the way that people were race, how much money they make, and the way that the organization has treat them, so the leader that comes in has to be able to understand this psychological, cultural, and economical aspects of the people that he or she is going to lead. If the leader does not study and research the place where his going before hand it could make his or hers experience to be a difficult one and it might take a long time to get the success that the organization was looking
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The first profile is the provincial, is the kind of leader that can work well when he or she are working with people that have their same background and know how everything is done and understand the people that they are working with but have problems when their work setting changes and they have to venture out of their comfort zone. The second profile is the Analyst is the one that likes to make sure that it has study the way that the business is being run and tries to change slowly the things that need to be change this is a common for somebody that has to be negotiating for different contracts. The third profile is the Natural this kind is the one that relies on his or hers knowledge and perception of the culture this can be a good asset to have but also it can get you in trouble if you only use your intuition and do not do the research on all of the facts of whatever business you are