Dr. Manuel Scott

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Increase your organization's intercultural understanding, impact, and income.

Do you want to improve the cross-cultural understanding of your staff, and increase your company’s impact and income?

Or, are you unsure about how to meaningfully address your diverse workforce about the unrest in our country?

Or, would you like your employees to examine the impact of race on your company and society, and understand the role that racism plays in racial achievement gaps?

ADAPT TO OPTIMIZE YOUR ORGANIZATION
The world is quickly changing in population density, technology, travel, immigration patterns, racial/ethnic, political, socioeconomic, and religious diversity. These changes have created a world that requires us to regularly interact with co-workers and customers of different cultural origins—be they in our companies, our schools, next door, across town, or thousands of miles away.

Whether or not your company embraces these changes, they will continue to increase in both frequency and intensity, and grow in importance. Ignoring them can hurt your business.

Your company’s success depends on your employees’ ability to cultivate healthy cross-cultural relationships that are based on genuine, in-depth understandings of people who have perceptions, opinions, and attitudes different from their own.

To achieve those kinds of relationships, your employees must develop intercultural competence.

WHAT IS INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE?
Intercultural Competence is the perception that a person has the motivation, understanding, and skills to speak and behave in ways that are effective (in achieving one’s goals) and appropriate (without violating the rules of the context in which the interaction takes place).

Intercultural Competence Involves 6 Key Components:
1. Perception: competence is not about what you do, but how you are perceived by others.

2. Motivation: competence depends on you having a properly oriented attitude.

3. Understanding: competence emerges from your understanding of yourself, of others, and of key processes of interaction.

4. Skills: competence is built upon on your ability to apply your motivation and understanding.

5. Effectiveness: competence flows from your ability to set context-informed goals.

6. Appropriateness: competence requires that you understand the rules and expectations of the world around you.

HOW CAN MANNY SCOTT HELP YOUR GROUP DEVELOP INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE?
For the past 20 years, Manny has provided professional development on intercultural competence for nearly 2,000 organizations, corporations, and schools in 49 states. Also, he is completing his Ph.D. on Intercultural Communication Competence. Finally, he has African-American, Latino, and Irish heritage, which has given him a unique perspective about our multi-cultural world.

Becoming Interculturally Competent is a presentation in which Manny equips your staff to develop the attitude, understanding, and skills to behave and speak across cultural differences in effective and appropriate ways.

We are in a new world, characterized by rapid changes in population density, technology, immigration patterns, ethnic, religious, economic, and political diversity. These changes have created a world that requires school employees to regularly interact with people of different cultural origins—be it in their classrooms, in schools, next door, across town, or thousands of miles away. Whether or not schools embrace these changes, these “conversations” will continue to increase in both frequency and intensity and grow in importance. In How to R.E.A.C.H. Youth Today, I equip school employees with the awareness, understandings, and skills to communicate across those differences, to reach across those divides, and to teach across those cultures.

How to REACH Youth Today Keynote/Seminar: By sharing very real, life-changing lessons Mr. Scott has learned from teachers and loving adults who helped him, and from the work he has been doing with kids for the last 18 years, he shows how to cultivate healthy relationships with students—and all youth, so that they can excel in school, and come out prepared for work and life. Learn how to transform our schools into safe, positive environments where all adults are equipped to REACH kids, and all kids are empowered to REACH their destinies. This is available as a keynote, half-day, or full-day option.