Cultural Intelligence Quiz

"One critical component of cultural intelligence... is a propensity to suspend judgment — to think before acting... using your senses to register all the ways the personalities interacting in front of you are different from those in your culture yet similar to one another."  This is the observation of Christopher Earley in his article, "Cultural Intelligence," in Harvard Business Review OnPoint (Summer 2013; hbr.org).  In the article he provides this quiz for diagnosing your "Cognitive Cultural Intelligence":

Rate the extent to which you agree with each of these statements with 1 representing strongly disagree; 2, disagree; 3, neutral; 4, agree; 5, strongly agree.

__ Before I interact with people from a new culture, I ask myself what I hope to achieve.
__ If I encounter something unexpected while working in a new culture, I use this experience to figure out new ways to approach other cultures in the future.
__ I plan how I'm going to relate to people from a different culture before I meet them.
__ When I come into a new cultural situation, I can immediately sense whether something is going well or something is wrong.

Now add up all your scores and divide by 4.  "Generally, an average of less than 3 indicates a need for improvement, while an average greater than 4.5 reflects true CQ strength."

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