Much-Anticipated New Release! Cultural Detective: Bridging Cultures
Intercultural understanding is essential to working in a global world, though by itself it is simply not enough. There is a critical need beyond awareness of differences: an ability to generate and...
View ArticleBook Review: How Maps Change Things
Anyone looking to develop a new class or training program to improve intercultural competence? This just-released book, How Maps Change Things: A conversation about the maps we choose and the world we...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Separation of Nader va Simin (Iran)
The media attention on Israel’s potential response to Iran’s nuclear activity has piqued my interest to learn a bit more about Iranian culture. Last week our family watched a most incredible film that...
View ArticleDesigning and Implementing Global Diversity
The global scene is expanding and our world has become borderless. Designing and implementing programs for global audiences presents unusual challenges. Familiar activities may be culturally...
View ArticleDevelopmental Intercultural Competence
The ability to collaborate productively and enjoyably across cultures is more important than ever, whether we focus on communicating with elderly parents or teenaged children, or on building trust and...
View ArticleUsing Film in Intercultural Education
Kevin and Rita Booker, very active Cultural Detective community members and extremely talented professionals, have put together a series of three articles on using film in intercultural education that...
View ArticleSix Powerful Ways to Build Cross-cultural Effectiveness
We have some very exciting news for you! Cultural Detective has teamed up with several of our partners to offer you SIX innovative ways to harness the innovation and power of diversity! Yes, six...
View Article10 Surefire Ways to Divide into Groups
As educators and trainers, we often find ourselves needing to sort class members into small groups for an activity. Tried-and-true ways include having participants “number off” or color-coding their...
View ArticleNew Year’s Gift: Oldie but Goodie—The STADIApproach
It is said that experience is the best teacher. But learning does not lie in the experience itself; rather, it is our interpretation of the situation—the meaning we give to our experience—that provides...
View ArticleSince When is 40% Acceptable?
Only half of 1120 instructional design professionals surveyed recently feel their designs help meet business goals, and LESS THAN 40% feel their designs meet learning needs! That means that 60% believe...
View ArticleAntibiotics and Intercultural
For over a decade we have been talking about the fact that developing intercultural competence is a process and a commitment, not a one-shot event. Recently our senior trainer of facilitators, Tatyana...
View ArticleMore Excellent Free Gifts
I just downloaded a wonderful high-resolution jpg of an equal-area projection Peters Map of the world for FREE thanks to Bob Abramms and our friends at ODT Maps, and you can, too! The Peters Map jpg is...
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