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Training Programs
PROGRAM 02

The Cultural Skills Accelerator

The five cultural skills that carry most day-to-day work, built on cultural intelligence foundations and measured at every step.

  • All professionals
  • 7 modules · 6 add-ons
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THE CHALLENGE THIS SOLVES
 
Our people work across cultures every day without a shared framework. Cultural friction shows up as miscommunication, slow decisions, and lost productivity - but nobody has the skills to diagnose or fix it.

What changes

Five outcomes the program is designed to produce
WHERE GLOBAL TEAMS ARE TODAY
AFTER THE PROGRAM
01 Skill gaps are discussed, never measured
A shared CQ language and measurable skill baselines
02 Small misreadings turn into rework and delay
Reduced cultural friction in communication and collaboration
03 Feedback and disagreement get avoided across cultures
Stronger cross-cultural trust, feedback and conflict skills
04 "Better communication" is the whole target
CultureFlex skill data across four proficiency levels
05 Next year's plan repeats last year's guess
Impact Assessment data to shape the next program cycle
HOW THE PROGRAM IS BUILT

Cross-cultural skills, in sequence 

Develop real cross-cultural skills you can use in day-to-day work
THE SEQUENCE
CQ Foundations 
Personal Worldprism profile across all nine cultural dimensions, and the framework the rest of the curriculum runs on.
F1 
CQ Skill Flexing  
Applying the ADAPT framework to real situations, so people flex before friction takes hold.
 F2 
Communicating  
Adapting communication style, directness and framing for culturally diverse contexts.

S1 

Collaborating  
Inclusive meetings, contribution norms and culturally aware co-creation.
S2 
Building Trust  
Credibility and rapport across relationship-first and task-first cultures.
S3 
Giving Feedback  
Feedback style, directness and framing adapted for different cultural profiles.
S4 
Navigating Conflict  
De-escalating and resolving culturally-driven disagreement and misunderstanding.
S5 
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Optional add-on
Other CQ skills 
Negotiating, Decision-Making, Leading & Motivating, Inclusion & Belonging and Cultural Transitions.
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Optional add-on
Country Briefing 
Focus the framework on a specific culture or market. 

Measured, not assumed 

Every module closes with an AI simulation test scored against CultureFlex proficiency levels. Those scores update each learner's live skill profile and roll up into your performance dashboard, so you can show what moved between the baseline and the impact review. 

 

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CULTUREFLEX SKILS THIS PROGRAM MOVES
Communicating 
S1 
Collaborating  
S2 
Building Trust 
S3 
Giving Feedback 
S4 
Navigating Conflict 
S5 
Foundation capabilities 
F1-F3 

Frequently asked questions

faqs-icon Which cross-cultural skills does the program cover?

Five core skills: communicating, collaborating, building trust, giving feedback and navigating conflict. Each skill has its own module, so people build them one at a time.

 
faqs-icon Can we add other skills?

Yes. You can add modules on negotiating, decision-making, leading and motivating, inclusion and belonging, or managing cultural transitions, depending on what your people need.

 
faqs-icon How do you measure cultural competence in the workplace?

Each module ends with a realistic scenario that tests how people apply the skill. The results update each person's skill scores, and you can track progress across the whole group in one dashboard.

 
faqs-icon Is this program only for managers?

No. It's built for all professionals. The skills apply whether someone is working with a colleague in another office or a client abroad. For leadership-specific training, see the Global Leadership Program.

 

Turn cultural friction into five measurable skills

Start with a complimentary discovery. We map where the friction is coming from, then show you this program running against it.

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