First Project (Capstone Project) Examples

 

These examples are taken from real-life Graduation Reports submitted by ICI Practitioners.

 

1. Individual debrief sessions with 5 people.

   1. Session 1: unpack 2 perception management tools

   2. Session 2: Debrief the Three Colors of Worldview report

   3. Session 3: Debrief the 12 dimensions of culture report

2. Completing 3 sessions of roughly 60 minutes with each person:

3. Teach a PD (Professional Development) class for your colleagues.
   Roughly 12 hours of group facilitations time to unpack Perception management, Three Colors of Worldview and the Cultural Mapping Inventory (can be spread out over multiple sessions)

4. Utilize the ICI Framework in an advisory project
   Apply the framework to assess a policy, procedure or approach and conduct an Intercultural audit on the approach. Based on the audit, make suggestions for improving the process. Implement the process and assess the impact of the improvements (e.g. recruiting, interviewing, customer complaints, client engagement)

5. Take an existing Intercultural dilemma your organization is currently dealing with.
   Use the ICI framework to conduct and Intercultural audit, design and implement a way forward together with the team or project lead

6. Join the team that onboards new hires
   Weave ICI into the training and development of new joiners. Be part of the next onboarding cycle and deliver the ICI integrated components of the improved onboarding program. Conduct a pre-and-post analysis.

7.  Work with an intact team in your organization to develop Intercultural Agility. Spread your engagement over a period of 4 – 6 weeks and conduct 4 sessions unpacking the Perception management, Three Colors of Worldview and Cultural Mapping Inventory.

8. Conduct 10 mini-sessions (no more than 60 minutes) for a group of interested participants from your organization.
   Spread the sessions roughly 1 week apart (4 perception management, 2 Three Colors, 2 Twelve Dimensions, 1 Culture Creation).

9. Use the ICI Framework to design a new approach.
   Focus on a process that is either not documented yet, not working or needs to be fine turned. Use the ICI framework to design an Interculturally agile way of operationalizing the process.

10. Take existing communication pieces (internal or external) and make it more Interculturally Agile
    Collaborate with the person(s) responsible for these communication pieces to apply the ICI framework to increase the Intercultural Agility or tweak the comms piece(s) for their respective target audiences.

11. Enhance the hiring interview process.
    Current practices, enhancing the questions asked and ways the questions are rated to make the full hiring process more Interculturally Intelligent.