Cultural Competency/Awareness Training 

Cultural Competency/Awareness Training The training provides an introduction to Cultural Competency/Awareness and results in an ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with people across cultures, and work with varying cultural beliefs.

I. Introduction and Opening
a. Learning Objectives overview
b. Ground Rules
c. Video “Where are you from?”
d. Statistics

II. Bennett Model of Cultural Competence

III. Developing Cultural Competence and Awareness 
a. Why Cultural Competency Matters
b. Developing Cultural Intelligence
c. Benefits of Increasing Your Cultural Intelligence

i. Drive
1. Improve Your Drive
2. Drive Questions to consider

ii. Knowledge
1. Improve Your Knowledge
2. Knowledge Question to consider

iii. Strategy
1. Improve Your Strategies
2. Strategy questions to consider

iv. Action
1. Improve Your Actions

d. An example – Time Orientation / clock time vs. event time

IV. Cultural Intelligence for life

V. Questions and closing