The International Profiler

What is it?

The International Profiler is aimed at individuals who need to build adaptive skills for working in a multinational environment.

It is a psychometric questionnaire based on a competency set that defines the special capabilities required to transfer professional managerial skills to an international context. The structured feedback that it provides helps raise individuals’ awareness of potential areas in which they may require future development, and suggest actions they can take to fill the gaps.

It comprises:

an on-line questionnaire
a printed competency profile
a feedback report

How does it work?

Individuals are required to complete The International Profiler questionnaire, which is distributed and completed on-line. The questionnaire consists of 80 questions and is based on a cross-cultural competency set of:

10 key competencies and
22 associated skills, attitudes and areas of knowledge

Once completed, the competency profile can be sent to the participant in the form of a PDF file prior to the feedback session or given to him/her during face-to-face feedback. The feedback is normally done on a one-to-one basis, either face-to-face or by telephone/video conference, but it can also be done for groups.

The Benefits

The direct benefits for the participant are the ability to work more effectively with colleagues in an international team and the building of productive relationships with new partners in unfamiliar cultural contexts.

At an organisational level, The International Profiler can help to provide focused individual development plans and reduce the potential of failure in international assignments and cross-cultural transitions.

Follow Up

Participants can be provided with extra coaching sessions, following the debrief, to help in the learning process. If the participant is shortly leaving for the target country or is constantly on the move, a series of short half hour telephone coaching sessions at regular intervals can prove very useful. Besides, being already immersed in his or her new cultural environments, the participant has ample opportunity to apply new solutions and debrief new cultural experiences with the consultant.

For more details about any of our programmes please contact Customer Services at info@farnhamcastle.com.