Chapter Three
What now?
Building Your Intercultural and Other Skills for the Future
Building on your intercultural and other knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) acquired or enhanced during your international learning experience doesn’t stop when your time abroad is over. As we’ve discussed, attitudes of open-mindedness, curiosity, and respect for others are the precursors for developing your intercultural competency. With that in mind, you can draw upon any situation where you encounter difference to practice understanding someone else’s perspective and learning to work across difference in productive ways. Similarly, in this chapter, we’ll show you there are many opportunities to develop your other knowledge, skills, and attitudes by adopting what’s called the growth mindset and creating SMART goals.
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Differentiate between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset.
- Use indicators to identify employers who value what you have to offer from a diversity, equity, and inclusion perspective.
- Reflect on ways you can continue to develop your intercultural and other transferable skills.
- Identify three goals to develop your intercultural skills
- Apply the SMART goals framework to advance your career development.
