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Cultural Intelligence (CI) Training

Find out where you land on the four CI core competencies. Discover your unique cultural signature across six cultural value dimensions. Create a CI growth plan tailored to your personal and business relationship goals.

Innovation Labs

Innovation keeps companies ahead of culture shift. These shifts happen fast and frequently. Our design-thinking approach draws out the best from your stakeholders and equips you for the next big move.

Professional Culture Coaching

Add specialized perspective to need-by-need cultural challenges, whether it's expat care, nuanced advice for HR, or securing a complex merger.

From Fear to Fascination™

Cultural humility transforms toxic spaces into smiling faces.

Conscientious companies like yours want to strengthen relationships with all kinds of people, but too often fear of difference gets in the way. Signi® helps companies move from fear to fascination in diverse business contexts by applying cultural intelligence to innovation. The result, more relaxed and inclusive working environments, increased productivity, and the security of knowing that all your stakeholders are genuinely engaged.

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CI Outcomes

CI is deeply grounded in research and correlates significantly to skills, behaviors, and attitudes that every successful company needs.

Increased intercultural adjustment
Improved cultural judgment and decision-making
Greater effectiveness in intercultural negotiations
Higher levels of trust, idea-sharing, information sharing and creative collaboration
Increased task performance in culturally diverse settings
Greater adaptive performance
Increased global leadership effectiveness
Improved sales performance in international or cross-cultural contexts and export performance

90%

90% of senior executives surveyed across 68 countries see cross-cultural leadership as the biggest challenge of this century.

Economist Intelligence Unit

35%

Companies in the top quartile of racial, ethnic, and gender diversity were 35% more likely to earn financial returns above the industry median.

McKinsey & Company

70%

70% of international ventures fail due to cultural differences.

Economist Intelligence Unit

92%

92% of companies surveyed across 38 countries attributed increase in revenue to cultural intelligence training.

CEO Magazine

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Expand your mental toolbox with the most current expert insights.

Cultural Intelligence: Key Benefits to Individuals, Teams and Organizations

This paper provides an overview of the empirical research on cultural intelligence, with a special focus on discussing key practical benefits to individuals, teams and organizations. The importance of cultural intelligence training is also highlighted.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Cultural Fluency

Cultural fluency has been repeatedly linked to financial performance. Building long-term cross-cultural relationships leads to increased creativity and out-of-the box thinking. So why don’t more corporate leaders possess this skill? (HBR)

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How to Transition through COVID-19 with Cultural Intelligence

Organizations that employ or serve culturally diverse people must have a firm grasp on how culture develops and functions, even in “normal” times. They need to learn how to discover the different systems of meaning of their stakeholders.

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The Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Psychosis

All medical students, psychiatry residents, fellows, faculty at academic medical institutions, and psychiatrists in independent practice must develop skills in cultural competence to avoid perpetuating disparities in health outcomes for BIPOC individuals with serious mental illnesses.

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Steve Hargis

CIO / SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CITY

Signi’s understanding of cultural differences and how to effectively communicate cross-culturally is informed by years of practical experience. Let them teach you.

"It is important to understand that diversity is not just workforce composition; it is interaction as well. And if employees of different genders, races, and ethnicities aren’t working together, the benefits of diversity may be lost."

Yamkovenko & Tavares | Harvard Business