Live Coaching Topics 

Topic​ 

Outcome​ 

CQ advantage​ 

Inclusive onboarding​ 

• Recruit the best talent​ 

• Increase employee experience​ 

• Recognize the cultural strengths of new hires​ 

Onboarding Remote Multinational Teams​ 

• Increase engagement​ 

• “Hit the road running”​ 

• Drive high performance​ 

• Recognize how to leverage culture in teams​ 

• Add value through cognitive difference​ 

• Build a performance culture ​ 

DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) 

• Leverage the power of cognitive difference​ 

• Proactively build an inclusive international culture​ 

• Build a common approach to cultural difference​ 

• Focus on performance not compliance​ 

Topic 

Outcome 

CQ advantage 

Goal setting 

• Set stretch professional goals to drive performance 

• Understand own and team cultural strengths and weaknesses to develop CultureFlex 

Performance and feedback 

• Build a culture of constant improvement and learning 

• Create a psychologically safe work culture 

• Leverage the cultural dimensions of trust to improve productivity 

• Understand attitudes to risk and relationship in feedback 

Decision making 

• Grow confidence in decision making 

• Make effective and timely decisions 

• Solicit and evaluate inputs from different perspectives to increase certainty in decisions 

• Recognize cultural difference in making and implementing decisions. 

Problem solving 

• Find effective solutions quickly 

• Build robust processes to address challenges 

• Identify root causes rather than smooth over symptoms 

• Leverage the power of difference to find better solutions 

• Recognize and evaluate alternative perspectives 

• Lead more impactful brainstorming sessions 

Topic 

Outcome 

CQ advantage 

Influencing 

• Build an effective international network 

• Understand the needs of your stakeholders 

• Build your personal reputation 

• Adapt your style through CultureFlex to develop greater influence 

• Understand stakeholder needs and expectations 

Presenting 

• Engage and impress your audience 

• Adapt your approach to gain credibility 

• Improve your preparation by accounting for audience expectations 

• Adapt your approach depending on the audience’s cultural style 

Negotiating 

• Understand how to adapt proposals to the audience 

• Build relationship and find win-win outcomes 

• Leverage the cognitive diversity of your team 

• Understand the opposition’s cultural drivers 

Communicating 

• Increase personal impact through effective communication 

• Grow confidence and assertiveness 

• Develop a flexible, adaptable communicative style 

• Tailor your message to the audience, incorporating their cultural preferences 

Topic 

Outcome 

CQ advantage 

Collaboration 

• Disrupted silos and build a collaborative culture 

• Increased psychological safety 

• Leverage the power of cognitive difference 

• Understand team cultural strengths and weaknesses 

High performing teams 

• An inclusive and high performing team 

• Greater productivity, creativity and engagement 

• Understand team cultural dynamics 

• Activate team cultural potential to increase performance 

Creativity and innovation 

• Great ideas, challenging the status quo 

• Robust problem solving 

• Widen the perspective on solution-finding 

• Understand the cultural needs of stakeholders 

• Challenge confirmation or affinity bias 

Conflict resolution 

• Turn disruptive conflict into constructive conflict 

• Address unproductive behavior 

• Rebuild relationships and trust after conflict 

• Deconstruct the cultural element of conflict 

• Understand the nature of cultural conflict 

• Frame the resolution in culturally intelligent outcomes 

Topic 

Outcome 

CQ advantage 

Engaging in Vision and Strategy 

• Communicate team and organizational vision more effectively across a global organization 

• Position your messaging for a global/international audience 

• Demonstrate understanding of local/regional cultural nuances 

A Global Leadership Mindset 

• ‘Think global, act local’ mindset 

• Develop culturally agile leadership styles 

• Take advantage of the opportunities of a global marketplace 

• Understand the role in expectations of leaders and leadership 

• Lead with cultural intelligence 

Leading Change 

• Engage teams in change and transformation 

• Develop a learning culture to thrive through complex change 

• Proactively manage culture before, during and after change 

• Build an intentional culture based on organizational values 

Leading in a Complex Organizational Structure 

• Turn Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity into Vision, Understanding, Clarify and Agility 

• Understand the cultural complexity of your team/organization 

• Find advantage in the cultural strengths brought by dispersed teams 

• Create a unifying team culture in a complex organization