Emotional Intelligence Cultural Intelligence and Diversity Workshop Assignment 2022

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Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence and Diversity workshop lay out
The workshop layout is designed to address the emotional intelligence and cross-cultural
diversities. The workshop involves various activities carried out to determine people’s culture
diversity. The appropriate activities for the workshop are allocated with appropriate timing. In
addition, the workshop activities are well integrated. This is done through provision of the
facilitated instructions that will guide all the activities. The potential barriers of the workshop
are provided that hinder the implementation of the activities successfully. Moreover, the
workshop provides the diversity of the activities that are suitable for the characteristics shown by
the participants. The below table shows a summary of all the activities carried out within a day.
Activity Timing Integration Instructions Potential barriers Diversity of
activities
Icebreaker
activity: This
involves the
orientation
introduction
to the
meaning of
the Emotional
Intelligence,
Cultural
Intelligence
and Diversity.
8:00-9:30
am
The topic and
activities are
integrated based
on the order of
performance.
The introduction
of each activity
is done for
better
understanding of
the participants
The activities
will be
performed
based on their
priority basis.
The urgent
activities will
be done
followed with
less urgent.
Some of the
barriers
associated with
this activity are
the time
inefficient.
The diversity
of the
introduction
orientation
depends with
participants
addressed on
this situation
(Annen, 2011
p.825).
Division of
the
participants in
the work
shop.
9:30-10:00 The division of
the will be
integrated in
orderly way to
make sure
everyone
participate in the
Each
participant
should stick to
his or her
relevant
activity
The deviation
from the
relevancy can be
encountered
especially when
the participant
does not
Proper
coordination is
required for
the facilitation
of the proper
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relevant activity. understand the
enrolled activity
well
the activities
Language
sharing
10:00-11:00
am
This involves
the coordination
of the
participants
having different
languages. This
is sought to
minimize the
communication
barriers.
The integration
involves
determination
of the
participants
having the
language
barriers and
how they can
be handled.
No easy
identification of
the how
individual relate
in terms of their
language
Diversity of
culture is
determined
Short tea
break
11:00-11:30
am
Short relaxation Internalization
of the
discussion and
activities
tackled is
required in this
short break
Lack of
cooperation from
some
participants is
potentially
encountered in
this activity
Short break
utilization is
the key thing
to observe for
better
understanding
of the concern
points.
Diversity Ball 11:30-12:00
pm
This involves
the development
of the diversity
culture
understandings
among different
groups of people
across the
world.
This is done
through
observation of
the cultural
behavior of
people based
on their tribe
and location.
The bias can be a
major barriers in
determination of
the cultural
diversity of the
various groups
of people
Different
diversities of
people is
evaluated
through
determination
their living
standards and
culture
heritages.
Lunch time 12:00-1:00 Time to take the
lunch after day’s
events
Time
observation is
key
Having other
activities and
missing lunch
It is done
systematic way
to avoid the
issues related
Closing
remarks
1:00-1:40
pm
This involves
conclusion of
the day’s
events
Preview of the
day’s
activities is
done briefly
to get how the
participants
understood
the subject
matter of the
Communication
barriers are the
major threat in
this. Besides,
there are
potential cases
of lack of the
cooperation
from the
This should
be done from
group of the
participants to
another to
make sure
everyone
understood
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day participants. discussed.
Definition of the activities and their significant in the workshop
Icebreaker activity: all the participants in the workshop will be required to welcome the
groups of the people with their identical signs and gestures. This is considered as the introduction
to the participants in the workshop (Ang and Van Dyne, 2015 p. 21). Taking an instance of the
Indian participants, their local gestures should be identified and mentioned to welcome them in
the workshop participation. This will be an open forum where everyone welcomes the available
participants by use of the available means of communication. There will be no limit on how
people will interact with their colleagues especially those expressing the different cultural
diversity. All the culture diversities are observed in this forum so that everyone feels represented
in the workshop (Tan, 2015 p.433). At least one representative from each of the cultural groups
should be identified and called to welcome people of his or her race. By doing this, everyone in
the workshop feels well represented.
Division of the participants in the workshop: This involves grouping of the participants in
the workshop based on their cultural heritage. It involves determining the people with the same
cultural beliefs. This is done to make sure that the same people with similar culture diversity
interact to have a cohesive exchange of ideas (Groves and Feyerherm, 2011 p.535). Moreover,
this may involve the interaction of the participants from other cultural diversities to learn their
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them with others. In this, there could be an issue of the language barriers but the participants
should use the possible signs and languages to understand one another.
Language sharing
This is one of the important activities in determining the impacts of the learning
objectives. It enhances interaction among the people participating in the workshop. It is a way of
bringing people close by interactions. The exchange of the gesture will create a sense of humor
and many people will feel this good for interaction (Ryan, 2012 p.29). This is how the workshop
will be made more interactive with all communities and people with cultural diversity. The unit
is enhanced through communication with the next member regardless of the language barrier. It
will be more of a humorous and interactive workshop where people will be willing to interact
more with other people in different cultural diversities (Lillis and Tian, 2009. p.428). It is
through this interaction that many participants will learn new culture diversities.
Diversity Ball
This is an activity that will enable everyone to share the experience they had with other
races and creed. It is outcomes if the language interaction among the participants in the
workshop. Those with differences in their cultural diversity will express their feeling regarding
their interaction with other communities. It is away building the oneness and cohesion among
members of the social setting (Chandrasekar, 2017, p.335). The outcomes of the workshop are
well explained through this activity as all members show their experience with other members
available in the workshop. Unity will be initiated in this workshop activity because everyone will
be willing to share with other communities based on their feelings and needs. The participants of
the workshop will be free to interact with everyone present to get new ideas regarding their

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culture. This initiative will be used in the determination of how people can learn from other
communities within a short period. In this activity, the participant will identify different culture
diversities with other communities. It will be sharing ideas forum in which the participant shares
their cultural beliefs with other communities. The participants are allowed to share their
experience with other communities and this will be used to determine the emotional Intelligence
of the different communities. The participants with the negative attitudes with other communities
will be identified in this stage based on the traits they come up with concerning other
communities.
Summary of the workshop accomplishment
The workshop was aimed at determining different emotional intelligence and cultural
diversities among different people in the world. The workshop acted as unity between those
communities to learn from one another. Just the way institutions gather different students with
different cultural backgrounds, the workshop acted the same (Song, 2012 p.541). It was meant to
bring different groups of people together to study their cultural diversity. This work was meant to
be more humorous and interactive to make sure that everyone shows up his community culture.
This is the reason why it started with a sense of humor to bring people together. People learn
from one another despite the diversity of culture through peaceful interaction. It is through
interaction that a person is willing to share their culture activities with other communities. In this
case, the workshop accomplished the significant importance of getting the culture differences
among communities (Rowe, 2010 p.74). Percipients learned from one another through the
language used although there were possibilities of the language barriers. Besides, some
communities could have a basis in studying other communities. Some communities feel so

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special than others and this brought different emotional intelligence. The workshop was able to
bring significant on how people feel about other communities and their cultures. There was need
to exchange language regardless of whether the opponent understood or not. It was just meant to
create a nice environment. It enables many people to have a nice interaction as a sense of humor
was well created. The main aim of this workshop was how to do people's interaction in their
daily life with other groups despite a wide range of cultural diversities (Constantine and Gainor,
2011 p.131). It was concluded that, through peaceful interaction, people need to understand
others beliefs and what they do. Different people have different ways of living and this can be
understood through learning their cultural behaviors.

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