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ICIC Civic & Community Outreach Initiatives

To be a skillful communicator one needs culture-specific information that equips one to anticipate specific differences (such as when to get straight to the point versus when to build the relationship first).  One also needs general cultural strategies that prepare a person to handle the ambiguities, surprises, and subtleties of intercultural communication.   The ICIC intercultural communication training model provides the skills and understanding needed to become an effective communicator in any situation.

ICIC services equip academic, business, and professional people to communicate more effectively by combining state of the art research with highly specialized training in language and intercultural communication strategies.

Sample ICIC Civic & Community Outreach Initiatives

ICIC

• has taught English for Specific Purposes (ESP) to more than 500 non-native English speaking workers in 15 Indiana businesses through Workforce English Training Programs.

• has provided intercultural training to more than 200 businesses and non-profits.
  

• has trained dozens of teachers/trainers for the Indiana workforce in courses and seminars.

• developed and conducted an intercultural training seminar for 1500 service workers in Indianapolis for the 2000 U.S. Grand Prix Hospitality Committee through the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Bureau. The ICIC model of intercultural training for service workers developed for the 2000 seminar has since been adopted by a number of non-profit organizations that deliver training for thousands of service workers in Indianapolis.

• wrote Language and the Global Workplace. A Handbook for Indiana Businesses with funding from the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. This handbook has been distributed to hundreds of businesses and non-profits in Indiana.

• helped develop and conduct the first state-wide English for Specific Purposes teacher training program for the Indiana Workforce Development in 2000. Sixty teachers participate annually in the program, which prepares volunteers and professionals to teach functional English to immigrant workers in businesses and industries.

• participated in Purdue University's Kabul University Reconstruction Project in Afghanistan, "Kabul University-Purdue University Partnership for Human Capacity Building." ICIC's role in the project is to develop English language teaching and teacher training for Kabul University.

• compiled, in collaboration with the Center on Philanthropy, the world's largest corpus of philanthropic fundraising materials (over 1 million words of direct mail letters, grant proposals, case statements, and annual reports), available as a CD-ROM for use by fundraising practitioners and scholars alike.