Cultural Intelligence (CQ) -
Nine Megaskills
1) Understanding My Cultural Identity
looking inward and understanding our own thoughts, biases, behaviors and cultural identity.
2) Checking cultural lenses
recognizing the ways in which cultural backgrounds differ and how they influence thinking, behavior and assumptions.
3) Global Consciousness
4) Shifting Perspectives
putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes and someone else’s culture.
5) Intercultural Communication
exchanging ideas and feelings and sharing information across cultural boundaries in a way that promotes respect and understanding.
6) Managing cross-cultural conflict 
the ability to deal with conflict among people from differing cultural backgrounds in an effective and constructive manner.
7) Multicultural teaming 
working with team members from diverse cultural backgrounds to accomplish certain tasks
8) Managing bias 
recognizing bias in ourselves and others and dealing with it effectively.
9) Understanding the dynamics of power 
grasping how power and culture interrelate and the effect of power on how we see the world and relate to others.
- moving across boundaries and seeing the world from multiple perspectives.
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