Intercultural Development Plan Assignment Paper

After completing the IDI assessment, the Intercultural Development Plan (IDP) should be submitted here. You should use the IDP PDF document provided with your inventory results. (One or more of the goals in this plan should be integrated within the Assignment 8-1: Personal Development Plan due in Week 8.)

You should complete sections two and three (2-3) of the IDP.

Section 2 is where you choose your goals and progress indicators.
Section 3 is where you will identify any barriers you might face and actions to account for them.
Section 4 contains activities you can do in pursuit of your goals. Choose a few activities that you think will be helpful for you or make up your own. Intercultural Development Plan Assignment Paper

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Completing the Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) and reviewing your own IDI Individual
Profile Report provides key insights into how you make sense of cultural differences and
commonalities. The next step is to systematically increase your intercultural competence—from
where you are to where want to be—by designing and implementing your own Intercultural
Development Plan® (IDP®). This IDP is specifically customized to your own IDI profile results and
is an effective way for you to increase your skills in navigating cultural differences. After
completing your IDP, you may consider taking the IDI again to determine your progress in
increasing your intercultural competence. Should you select this option, a second customized IDP
would then be produced based on your most recent IDI profile results, thus providing further
intercultural development. By completing your Individual Development Plan, you can:
• Gain insights concerning intercultural challenges you are facing and identify intercultural
competence development goals that are important for you,
• Gain increased understanding of how your Developmental Orientation impacts how you
perceive and respond to cultural differences and commonalities, and
• Identify and engage in targeted, developmental efforts that increase your intercultural
competence in bridging across diverse communities.
Why Have an Intercultural Development Plan? Intercultural Development Plan Assignment Paper
Have you ever heard someone say, “experience other cultures—you will be better able to
communicate with people who are different from you?” Many of us may also believe that traveling
and living in another country automatically results in our developing greater intercultural
competence.
Unfortunately, these are two common myths regarding the development of intercultural
competence. Intercultural competence does not simply happen because of being in another
culture. For example, assume you are from the United States and you go to Japan and live for six
months—or even six years!
Does this mean that you have increased your ability to shift cultural perspective and adapt
behavior more effectively and appropriately because of your “Japanese experience?” Not
necessarily. You may have lived in and experienced Japan largely from your own, monocultural
perspective. You may, for instance, have lived in an area of Japan where people from your own
culture predominate and your relationships may have remained largely with people from your own
cultural group. Further, your behavior may have changed little even though you were working and
living in a foreign country. Under these circumstances, you would likely gain little intercultural Intercultural Development Plan Assignment Paper
competence development.

Making a Commitment
As you review the information in this IDP guide, you will be asked to identify and make a
commitment to engage in a set of activities and reflect on what you have learned from those
activities. Each activity has a suggested time commitment listed so that, as you design your IDP,
you will know the total amount of time you are committing to your own development.
The more activities you select and the more time you work on your IDP, the greater your ability to
bridge cultural differences will be. Engaging in the activities in your IDP can help you achieve a
gain of one full orientation (or more) along the Intercultural Development Continuum. When
possible, you should work on your Intercultural Development Plan at least once, if not twice, a Intercultural Development Plan Assignment Paper
week.
Key Intercultural Learning Opportunities
The specific list of activities in this IDP are targeted to your own Developmental Orientation and
are reflective of a wide-range of different learning methods, including:
Training
Programs
Are there web-based or in-person training programs you can attend that
present information on cultural difference across diverse groups?
Workplace
Activities
Are there workplace committees and groups in which you can participate to
build your intercultural skills? This can include participating in your
organization’s diversity and inclusion efforts, joining various
affiliation/affinity/employee resource groups, and taking on work-related
responsibilities that involve cultural bridging.

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Theatre, Film, &
Arts
Are you able to attend cross-cultural movies, plays, and other artistic
exhibits? Such events often hold post-event discussions that allow you to
explore the concepts presented with others who share your interest.
Educational
Classes
Are there classes at your community college or university that focus on
cross-cultural communication and cross-cultural relations? Other useful
courses include ethnic and gender studies classes.
Personal
Interactions
Could you work on projects that involve interactions with people from
different cultures?
Books & Articles Are there books or articles you would like to read that specifically describe
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Intercultural
Journal
Could you keep an intercultural journal in which you reflect on cultural
differences and commonalities you observe in your daily interactions with
people from other cultural groups? You might consider focusing your
intercultural journal on situations you have observed or been a part of in
which you and/or others needed to understand cultural differences and then
respond appropriately.
Travel Are there cross-cultural travel opportunities on the horizon where you can
systematically observe and engage cultural diversity?
Intercultural
Coaching
Is there an opportunity to work with a qualified intercultural coach?
Site Visits Are there specific cultural site visits that can increase your knowledge about
diverse cultural experiences?
Tips for increasing the benefits of your IDP:
➢ If possible, working through your IDP with another person (who is also working on their own
IDP) can increase intercultural growth and development for both of you.
➢ If possible, working with an IDI Qualified Administrator in a coaching capacity can increase
insights and learning.
➢ Completing your activities on a weekly basis deepens intercultural understanding.

Polarization
Your IDI profile results indicate your Developmental Orientation is within Polarization, an
orientation that makes sense of cultural differences from a more judgmental stance (“us” and
“them”). Polarization can take the form of Defense or Reversal.
Defense has a positive attitude towards one’s own group, uncritically favoring the cultural values
and practices of one’s own group while being overly critical of another culture’s practices that are
substantially different. Reversal is positive and uncritical towards the practices of other cultures
and overly critical towards one’s own culture.
Overall, Polarization is aware of the challenges that can arise around cultural differences, but
over-emphasizes differences from a good/bad, positive/negative view.
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There are likely commonalities, which may escape your notice, between your views and the views
of people who are culturally different from yourself. Exploring these similarities is an important
bridge in building positive relations across diverse groups.
Your developmental task is to consciously balance your evaluation (advantages and
disadvantages) of your own and others’ cultural beliefs and behaviors and to actively identify
commonalities between your own and other’s views, needs, and goals.
Tips for selecting developmental activities in your IDP:
➢ Select activities that pique your curiosity
➢ Select activities that are enjoyable
➢ Select activities that are less familiar
➢ Select activities that are challenging Intercultural Development Plan Assignment Paper

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