This career skill is a lifelong commitment to developing the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills necessary for working and interacting respectfully and effectively with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds and self-concepts.
Sample Behaviors:
- Solicit and use feedback from multiple cultural perspectives to make balanced decisions
- Actively contribute to fair practices that influence individual and comprehensive change
- Involve historically disadvantaged communities
- Seek global cross-cultural interactions and experiences that enhance one’s understanding of people from different demographic groups and that leads to personal growth
- Keep an open mind to different ideas and new ways of thinking
- Identify resources and eliminate barriers resulting from individual and structural disparities and assumptions
- Demonstrate flexibility by adapting to a variety of environments
- Address hierarchical systems that limit opportunities for members of disadvantaged communities
*This statement has been modified from the original NACE definition