Developing Intercultural Awareness and Skills

THE GLOBAL
PROFESSIONAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS
REFLECTION.................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................8

REFLECTION
In the course that I undertook, the major learning that I developed was related to the
intercultural awareness that I must evaluate i.e. whether I am aware in accordance with the
different cultures and whether I acknowledge the people from other cultures or not. I can
effectively say that earlier I had been completing all the sessions just for the sake of completing
course but it was only after I got engaged with this module that I realised I am culturally diverse
and possess diversified cultural values (Appendix 1). I was able to learn about some major
cultural dimensional models such as Hofstede’s (Appendix 2) and Meyers model. The
significance of the intercultural diversity was first made understood to me by the identification of
the six different types of culture that exist through the DMIS tactic where the different kind of
cultural personalities were identified (Watson, 2017). I identified myself to be more inclined
towards Adaptation where I able to integrate with the people of other culture successfully.
Although I did not take the first IDI tests due to my illness, even then I can adequately conclude
that since I am from India, I know how to adapt with people from different cultural backgrounds
and with different beliefs (Appendix 1). I was grateful to acknowledge that even during the
assessment of different dimensions and while working together in the group presentation, I was
able to integrate with everyone exceptionally well as I identified in my group presentation blog
evaluation (Appendix 4). I find the Shweder’s point of view specifically in accordance with the
learning that I have made about myself i.e. I need to respect and accept the difference that exists
between the people of different culture and the even my friends and colleagues (Shweder,
Richard and Séamus, 2013). This will help in moving forward in my life with better integration
and development along with the diverse workforce in which I am working. I also started to
understand the need to become more self- aware and specifically begin to learn and implement
the 8F’s particular Flex. Therefore, I can state that this is a major learning that I was able to
develop through the program of global personality development.
I can effectively state that even though I was culturally sensitive before the beginning of this
course as well because I am from India (Appendix 1), where culture and beliefs are different
from that of UK but yet it was during the blogs that I wrote after every learning session that
made me actually analyse myself. I was able to realise that why it is important to be empathetic
to every person that I meet (Appendix 5), irrespective of the fact that they might belong to some
other culture or belief (Kiweewa & et.al., 2018). I realised that I am already empathetic towards
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