What is the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)?
Looking for a reliable way to provide direction for building capacity to work across diversity? The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) is a cutting edge assessment that can gives you the information you need.
What is the IDI?
The IDI is a valid and reliable psychometric assessment that "takes a snapshot" of how you are thinking about diversity. It is used by individuals and organizations to:
1. determine the current capacity to support inclusion and diversity
2. provide direction in addressing how to improve capacity for inclusion and diversity
Completing the IDI assessment is easy and requires 15-20 minutes. Participants are asked to go online and log in, using a username and password that Interculturalist, LLC provides, and then respond to 50 statements.
After completing the IDI, Interculturalist generates an in-depth graphic profile of an individual or group’s current state of intercultural capability. The profile allows you to see the gap between where you are at in your intercultural development process and where you aspire to be. Clarifying one's gap is a powerful starting point in creating intentional steps toward increasing your capacity to work across diversity.
Additionally, the IDI data is foundational for grounding further learning. After completing IDI, we offer an online group learning session where your team would learn about the IDI, your team’s group results (and discuss implications), and then have individual IDI debrief conversations that last 45-60 minutes where people receive their individual results and an individualized development plan. This is what we refer to as “Phase I”. After this first phase, we can move into Phase II, which is facilitating intercultural competence learning in cohorts (and uses the IDI learning from Phase I as the grounding) and make initial steps toward action objectives such as meeting inclusion goals. In Phase II learning sessions, we cover the topics you mentioned in your email.
Some things to know about us:
• We have over two decades of experience using the IDI with individuals and organizations and our IDI program is lead by an instructor of the IDI (Akiko Maeker, PhD) that trains and certifies others to become IDI Qualified Administrators
• Partnership with a woman and minority-owned business
• We take an asset-based approach (rather than deficit-based). We can tell you more about what we mean by this if you’re interested.
• Training program designed by an International Coach Federation trained executive coach with a PhD in intercultural learning and organizational leadership development