Assume you are holding a business meeting with five people, each from a different continent (North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia), you being one of them. Which steps would you take to ensure that everyone is comfortable and that communication is good between everyone?

Holding a meeting with people from different cultures can be a big challenge, so it is necessary to organize the meeting to ensure that the different approaches and needs of each person are taken into account by the leader who will conduct the business meeting.

It is necessary to think of ideas, decisions and conduct that make all participants comfortable and are not a factor that interferes with the positive flow of the meeting. It is therefore important to develop cultural intelligence, which is an essential skill for leaders of large companies who wish to operate in the globalized market.

Cultural intelligence can be defined as the ability of a person to relate and work between different cultures, adapting and increasingly developing that intelligence (cultural quotient) in motivational, behavioral and metacognitive aspects. Through cultural intelligence it is possible for the individual to get involved efficiently in any environment, in business it is an essential skill for survival in the global market.