Every year, my team and I attend the leadership summit. This year, there is a shadow hanging over the summit as I outlined here, but I’m still trusting that it will have some incredibly helpful content, just like in past years. To capture what I’m learning and to help you grow as a leader, I always share my notes from each session, so be sure to check back after each session and bookmark them for future use.
The first session of the second day featured a talk by David Livermore. He’s the President of the Cultural Intelligence Center and a Best-selling Author. He shared research on how leaders can relate effectively to diverse situations. It was fascinating.
The following are some takeaways:
- It is our mistakes that help us improve as leaders far more than our successes.
- Cultural intelligence is the ability to work effectively together when people are from different cultural backgrounds.
- The number one characteristic of a culturally intelligent leader is their curiosity.
- Culturally intelligent leaders understand what makes people different.
- Leaders should fight against the fear to learn from others.
- Leaders need to channel their curiosity and what they’re learning and turn that into a strategy.
- Leaders need to understand the culture they’re from and how adaptable their culture at their company is to people outside of their culture.
- Diversity has the potential to lead to innovation and growth, but only if the leaders have a high cultural intelligence.
