Creating Courageous Conversationsfor Indigenous Diversity, Allyshipsand Cultural Change
An organisation thrives when it is a placeof social cohesion and cultural intelligence.
It gives people a sense of belonging, inclusion, participation, recognition and legitimacy.
Hand on your heart…
Do all the people in your organisation feel safe to contribute? Do all contributors feel valued the same way,regardless of their position or ethnicity?
Often, we find unconscious bias that builds cultural barriers within an organisation.
That leads to the exclusion of a part of the workforce, and it creates inequalities that are not addressed or spoken about. Systemic racism is not a label that any organisation is proud to display. Yet, systemic racism is a reality that many organisations need to acknowledge and disrupt to transform into an organisation that thrives in any given circumstance.
Our “Bridging Cultural Perspectives” framework includes nine steps that create meaningful change and lead any organisation from systemic racism to systemic disruption.
Our “Bridging Cultural Perspectives” framework includes nine steps that create meaningful change and lead any organisation from systemic racism to systemic disruption.
Not every organisation is in the same place. We pick you up exactly at the step your organisation is at and guide you through the remaining journey.
Our approach is tailored to your needs and delivered through our sub-brands and partner organisations that are focused on a specific area in your journey:
Digital Moana is a digital platform for raising cultural awareness in organisations. Digital Moana delivers snackable messaging on digital organisational channels to upskill deskless and office workers in an easily accessible way.
Through its repetitive and snackable delivery, it allows easier retention and educates without overwhelming.
Digital Moana shares important Māori and Pacific milestones with the whole organisation silently and unobtrusively. This opens and inspires minds and gives Maori and Pacific workers a feeling of inclusion and pride about their cultures.
PolyUX is a one-day workshop that uses a lean canvas and our Poly UX sorting cards to help you identify your cultural intelligence barriers.
The Poly UX cards...
Help you find out your prior knowledge, strengths, and needs
Identify your challenges
Help you understand and engage with Maori & Pacific stakeholders
Create actionable steps to overturn your communication challenges
Identify tactics to improve stakeholder engagement
Assess your cultural landscape with Manu Communication's cultural audit to help you implement a strategic communications framework.
assess your organisation’s engagement with Maori and Pacific stakeholders
review your communication policies and strategy
assess your communication channels with Maori and Pacific stakeholders
identify your cultural strengths and weaknesses in your business practices to give you recommendations for improving your organisation’s cultural sensitivity
Manu Communications can also help you develop a culturally engaging strategic communications plan that will:
take the “randomness” out of your cultural communications
give you accountability and roadmaps to achieve your goals
assign roles and responsibilities to responsible team members
provide meaningful evaluation tools to assess your actions to understand what works and what doesn’t workidentify risks and ways of mitigating those risks
give you a macro-view of your organisation but is able to drill down to a micro level to understand how to communicate with different stakeholders to ensure their inclusion
A team of experienced designers that helps you “indigenise” your organisation with meaningful and culturally correct Maori and Pacific designs.
We create a “visual voice” that is inclusive of Māori and Pacific culture.
Puhi Creative helps organisations to:
Find cohesion within teams and the organisation
Include Māori and Pacific culture within their projects
Strengthen their communication with their Māori or Pacific audience
Connect and relate with their indigenous audience on a deeper level
Testimonial
"I like the interactive elements. Good thought provoking material with practical application so I already feel like this has been useful and I haven't even done the course yet!"
PolyUX workshop participant - MBIE
Contact Us
Based in Auckland and Taumarunui, supporting clients virtually throughout New Zealand.
P: 021 378 639
E: comms@cultureanddesignlab.com
The Culture and Design Lab is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions
© 2023 The Culture and Design Lab