Description

The test covers 75 questions, 25 in each of the three IQ components : knowledge, skills and behaviours. On knowledge questions, answer what you know or suspect is right. On skill and behaviour questions, pick the answer, among the given choice of three, which best depict the way you act, react and think in your everyday living and working environment. Your answers will be correlated to the skills and attitudes known to be most appropriate in a personal and professional relationship with a foreign partner in a given intercultural environment.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis is skill and behaviour sensitive to your actual experience; this is quite revealing of your intercultural assets and potential. Evaluation of your strenghts and weaknesses leads to a detailed review of the skills and behaviours that you should acquire or reinforce for cross-cultural effectiveness. Rank yourself on each of 50 distinctive traits of intercultural efficiency in a given environment. The standard diagnosis is established with reference to an universal profile (averaged over a group of similar countries), but a specific diagnosis could also be drawn in relation to any country or region known profile.

Procedure

The diagnosis holds in a 10-pages written report. The diagnosis debriefing is usually conducted during an interactve working session between trainee and trainer. Should this be unfeasible, debriefing could adequately be carried out over the Net via E-mail, with the diagnosis report sent as attached file, followed by as many exchange emails as required for trainee full understanding. The diagnosis draws numerous observations with supporting remarks, and also sets pertinent recommendations regarding learning needs, intercultural training and eventual pre-departure preparation.

Fees

Fees of 50 $Can (225 FF or 35 $US) are applicable to the complete IQ Test, with the standard profile diagnosis. Fees of 25 $Can (115 FF or 18 $US) are added for the definition of a country or region-specific profile, when the IQ diagnosis is carried out with reference to such a profile. A country-specific diagnosis is recommended when country of posting or assignment is known.

SPECIMEN
INTERCULTURAL QUOTIENT DIAGNOSIS

TEST - Intercultural Quotient (IQ) of Manager X

Detailled Diagnosis

Evaluation - Strenghts and Weaknesses
Review - Skills and Behaviours

IQ SCORE : 103/150
DIAGNOSIS : AVERAGE

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Part 1 - Score and overall diagnosis (2 pages)


Specimen

 YOUR SCORE AND DIAGNOSIS
Knowledge
Skills
Behaviours
Overall IQ
SCORE
42/50
29/50
32/50
103/150
DIAGNOSIS
GOOD
AVERAGE
GOOD
AVERAGE

With your AVERAGE IQ, you show a fair potential for success in a project abroad,
but you still have to work on it.
Your main strenght is in your knowledge.
Your main weakness is within your intercultural skills.

RECOMMENDATIONS

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Part 2 - Detailled diagnosis (6-8 pages)

1. Knowledge (2 pages)

Score and list of your wrong answers on ...
Characteristics of national cultures
Values and cultural behaviours

2. Skills (2-3 pages)

Score, list and definition of your strenghts and weaknesses,
list and definition of skills to be acquired or reinforced ...
Business style
Professional relations
Personal relations

3. Behaviours (2-3 pages)

Score, list and definition of your strenghts and weaknesses,
list and definition of behaviours to be acquired or reinforced ...
Adaptation capacity
Personal qualities
Ethics

Recommandation - Specimen

Skill to be reinforced

Flexibility during execution; mental awareness, coolness and method, adaptability

BE FLEXIBLE ON MEANS; ACCEPT NO COMPROMISE ON RESULTS
When faced with unexpected situations, intensify your efforts,
show flexibility and remain opened to plan adjustments, even to new plan.
In an international project, the action often deviates from original planning;
adapt the means in an innovative and open-minded manner, but stay fierce on targeted results.

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