The Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) is the premier cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence that is used by thousands of individuals and organizations to build intercultural competence to achieve international and domestic diversity and inclusion goals and outcomes. The IDI is a cross-culturally valid, reliable, and generalizable measure of intercultural competence along the validated intercultural development continuum, measuring your underlying orientation of intercultural competence (both mindset and skillset) – which is the capability to shift cultural perspective and appropriately adapt behavior to cultural differences and commonalities. Join a group of your peers in completing the 50-item developmental assessment (available in 17 languages) and experience the group profile debrief session supporting learning outcomes and development plan efforts.
Target Audience: any employee or team
Learning Objectives:
- Obtain in-depth insights on how the group makes sense of cultural differences and how they respond to cultural differences
- Identify valid, quantitative information about the group engages cultural difference in their day-to-day interactions with others
- Better understand how your group’s IDI profile translates into interculturally competent strategies across diverse groups
- Identify cross-cultural goals and challenges
- Improve awareness on increasing how you currently engage cultural differences to how they can more effectively engage diversity
Register: Register via EBS Portal or e-mail evpa.dei@msu.edu
- About the IDI (IDI side menu)
What is the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)? The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) is an assessment that measures your underlying orientation for intercultural competence, that is the capability to shift cultural perspective and appropriately adapt behavior to cultural differences and commonalities. It measures both mindset and skillset.
It is a 50-item questionnaire available online that can be completed in 15-20 minutes. The assessment tool comes with a customized Intercultural Development Plan (IDP) that expands your awareness and understanding to support development and growth. Link to the IDI website.
The IDI tool can be used for individual development, team/group development, organizational development, program evaluation, and selection. ELT is currently using the IDI tool to support individual and team/group development; and exploring the opportunity to expand to the organization.
Why intercultural competence? Intercultural competence directly affects how we interact with the world around us. One key aspect of intercultural competence is having a balanced approach to commonalities and differences. A balanced focus on identifying and establishing accurate commonalities (i.e. goals, needs, interest, motivations) can produce a shared experience and shared focus in our unit. A balanced focus on valuing our differences can produce innovation (i.e., new ideas, practices, values) because differences contribute to the life of our unit.
Is it valid? The IDI is a cross-culturally valid, reliable and generalizable measure of intercultural competence along the validated intercultural development continuum. The IDI has been demonstrated, through research, to have high predictive validity to both bottom-line cross-cultural outcomes in organizations and intercultural goal accomplishments in education.
This tool has been leveraged by corporations, non-profit organizations, colleges and universities, government, and primary and secondary schools.