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Cultural intelligence

CQ: The Future
of Intelligence

Strengthen your and your team’s cultural intelligence with a CQ workshop: Develop the ability to interact and communicate effectively in multicultural teams, and gain practical tools to build a more inclusive culture.

Strengthen Your CQ – the Intelligence of the Future – Through Training

Cultural training that develops your Cultural Intelligence

Together, we uncover and challenge cultural biases – our instinct to interpret behavior through our own cultural framework – and develop concrete, personal CQ strategies for lasting impact.

You should choose this training if

  • You are a multicultural team working together either in person or virtually across locations around the world.

  • You are an organization with employees or partners from diverse cultural backgrounds – either based in the same office or spread across multiple countries.

  • You want to negotiate with new partners and ensure a strong start to the collaboration.

  • You want to strengthen your employees’ and leaders’ ability to act with cultural intelligence in an international business environment.

Takeaways from the training:

Specific knowledge about:

  • Cultural Intelligence – what it is and how to develop it at the individual, team, and organizational level.

  • Cultural bias – how to act more consciously and effectively in cross-cultural collaboration.

  • Key cultural differences worth being aware of – for example, how the cultural dimension of hierarchy influences leadership style, decision-making processes, and proactivity.

  • Effective use of communication channels – how to use emails, in-person meetings, video calls, and other communication forms most appropriately in intercultural interactions.

Key competencies you will gain:

  • Adapt your communication to prevent misunderstandings.

  • Enhance teamwork across colleagues with diverse cultural backgrounds.

  • Identify blind spots and see how your cultural perspective is interpreted by international colleagues.

  • Apply cultural intelligence and bias-awareness in everyday work.

  • Build strong relationships and establish trust in a global context.

  • Read and interpret situations effectively in cross-cultural environments.

  • Develop and implement personal CQ strategies in daily intercultural collaboration.

It was a real pleasure and extremely relevant and informative to attend your CQ (Cultural Intelligence) seminar. There was a great balance between active and passive participation, and the exercises were both excellent and engaging! I would highly recommend it to others.

Louise Winkel, Department Manager
Novo Nordisk

Workshops & Exercises

Research-based, engaging, and practical workshops

At ConnectingCultures, we combine the latest research with real-world challenges. We deliver evidence-based insights in an engaging and accessible way – and we make sure the process is both interactive and enjoyable.

We turn insight into action through exercises, reflections, and case work, ensuring that participants leave with concrete strategies they can apply immediately. In this way, learning becomes embedded in everyday practice, and future decisions are made on a solid foundation of knowledge.

Our experienced consultants have many years of expertise in facilitating workshops on Cultural Intelligence, Diversity & Inclusion, leadership, and collaboration.

Kulturspecialister og DEI-specialister hos ConnectingCultures

Thank you for a really great workshop yesterday, Mikkel. The team and I were truly happy with the day. We especially appreciated your broad knowledge, the combination of presentation, discussion, and self-assessment, as well as the focus on how we as Danes may be perceived by others. It was also highly valued that you provided concrete, practical advice. The session gave us many “aha” moments and reflections that we will take with us in leading our teams and in our collaboration with suppliers.

Nanna Eram Jensen - Vice President, Strategy & Rolling Stock
DSB