MOSAIC multicultural awareness digital magazine

The Multicultural Organisation – Staff Awareness, Innovation and Capability (MOSAIC) magazine aims to enhance multicultural awareness and culturally inclusive practices and behaviours across the APS.

The MOSAIC magazine supports the APS’ commitment to creating a safe, supportive and diverse workforce. The self-paced content allows you to learn while in the flow of work. You can explore the content in any order you choose. Within the magazine you will find well-researched intercultural frameworks used in global organisations, as well as activities, questionnaires, self-reflection opportunities and downloadable toolkits to support you in growing your multicultural awareness. The magazine also includes a journal entry feature which allows you to record your responses to guiding questions. These will be captured to create a personalised action plan that you can print or download upon completion.

MOSAIC - Part One: Growing multicultural awareness focuses on growing your multicultural awareness and is recommended for all APS staff, so everyone can contribute to creating a safe and inclusive workplace for all.

MOSAIC - Part Two: Leading multicultural teams (coming soon) supports APS 6 to Senior Executive Service (SES) leaders to champion cultural diversity and inclusion in their teams and organisations. It helps managers and leaders to lead culturally safe workplaces and prevent racial discrimination.

This learning experience has been provided by the Australian Public Service Commission in partnership with the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC), the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C), the Department of Home Affairs and the Department of Finance.

Participant benefits

Part One:

  • Grow awareness of racism in the workplace and its effect on employees.
  • Know the difference between task vs relationship orientation and how to leverage the strengths of both.
  • Learn the difference between cultural competency vs cultural humility.
  • Become aware of the way we think and how it can impact the way we make decisions.
  • Reflect on attitudes, behaviours and ways of working.
  • Be inspired to learn more about other cultures and grow cultural curiosity.

Part Two:

  • Leaders are able to navigate through cultural differences to effective lead their teams.
  • Leaders are aware of their own leadership styles, engage in reflective practices and are able to adapt their leadership as needed.
  • Leaders recognise racism and what their role is in the workplace.
  • Leaders know how to build and maintain a psychologically safe and inclusive workplace environment for CALD employees to thrive.
  • Leaders implement better practices in supporting CALD employees through the employee lifecycle and proactively champion their careers.

Suitable for

Part One: All staff.

Part Two: APS 6 - SES Band 3

Category and User Level

This learning experience aligns with APS People at the Foundation level.

Considerations

The MOSAIC Magazine is comprised of two parts.

  • Part One: Growing multicultural awareness is recommended for all APS Staff.
  • Part Two: Leading multicultural teams is recommended for APS 6 and above.
  • Completion of Part One is a prerequisite to enrolling in Part Two.

❕ This program contains discussion on racism in the workplace. The content can be confronting, disturbing or trigger traumatic memories. If you are emotionally impacted by the information presented, please seek support and speak with your team leader/manager or human resources area. Support is also available from:

  • your agency’s Employee Assistance Program
  • Lifeline on 13 11 14 or by text on 0477 13 11 14 (available 24/7)
  • 13YARN on 13 92 76 (available 24/7) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467 (available 24/7)

The MOSAIC magazine is self-paced. Participants are encouraged to not schedule in heavy work activity immediately following the course and to take breaks between modules to consolidate learning and/or if emotionally impacted by the content.

Price

Free of charge.

Related topics

Integrity; Values; Engaging stakeholders; Recruitment and career pathways; Induction; Communication; Leading in the APS; Working in teams; Coaching; Conflict resolution; Performance management

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