Cultural Competency Coaching
1:1 coaching for educators, caregivers, administrators, and anyone needing support on their intercultural awareness journey.
"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank
Intent v. Impact
What do we understand about intent?
What do we understand about impact?
The truth is we can never know what is in a person's heart or head, but we do know the impact a person's actions and words have on those around them. As culturally responsive, anti-bias practitioners, we want more than good intentions. We want our impact and intent to match.
Success in achieving goals and working with a diversity of people increases when you can more deeply understand culturally-learned differences, recognize commonalities between yourself and others, and act on increased insight in ways that facilitate collaboration and achieving goals together with diverse individuals and groups.
Deeper cultural competency development includes increasing one's cultural self- and other-awareness. Working with a coach can increase these insights.
Consider your own identity using the graphic to the right. Think about primary & secondary identity and organizational & cultural identity. All rings intersect to create foundations of your cultural self. How often are your values and beliefs reflected in the workplace or school culture? How do you adjust when your values are not reflected?
Culture extends beyond race, ethnicity, and nation of origin. Culture is the compilation of category membership (e.g., gender identity, sexual orientation, spiritual & faith practices, etc.) as well as lived experiences (where you live, with whom you live, educational trajectory, etc.). Organizational and cultural identity (e.g., industry, tenure, power/authority views, time, collaboration/competition, structured/flexible, individual/team, etc.) are/were created by a group of people over time, historically by those who hold power. Culture is above the surface (e.g., art, music, food), and culture is below the surface (e.g., relationships, physical space, hierarchy).
Cultural competency is the ability to consider individual values & beliefs--below the surface--are culturally grounded and to shift perspectives & adapt behavior to cultural differences & commonality across primary, secondary, organizational, and cultural identity.
Cultural competency coaching with Wicht Consulting Inc leverages the Intercultural Development Inventory tool and crosswalks individual profile results with a set of anti-bias tenets for a personalized approach to ongoing intercultural development.
Through 1:1 CCC, you will gain insight concerning intercultural challenges you are facing, and identify intercultural competence development goals that are important to you, gain an increased understanding of how your intent and impact align (or misalign) and 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 in your personal and professional life.
A 6-9 month commitment is required to engage in CCC.
Three fee structures are available.
Option One (Recommended for Administrators and School Leaders)
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Step One: Complete a 50-item online questionnaire
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Step Two: Receive and debrief an individualized profile report
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Step Three: Participate in 8 real-time, virtual coaching sessions over the course of 9-12 months and engage in self-reflection between 1:1 sessions
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Step Four: Retake 50-item online questionnaire
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Step Five: Receive and debrief profile report, compare and contrast with report shared in step two, set ongoing individual development goals
Cost: $2,550
Option Two (Most Common)
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Step One: Complete a 50-item online questionnaire
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Step Two: Receive and debrief an individualized profile report
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Step Three: Participate in 5 real-time, virtual coaching sessions (once/month for six months) and engage in self-reflection between sessions
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Step Four: Retake 50-item online questionnaire
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Step Five: Receive and debrief profile report, compare and contrast with report shared in step two, set ongoing individual development goals
Cost: $1,500
Option Three (For Those on a Budget)
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Step One: Complete a 50-item online questionnaire
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Step Two: Receive and debrief an individual profile report
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Step Three: Participate in 2 real-time, virtual coaching sessions, and engage in self-reflection
Cost: $550