The second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada (September 30, 2022) has just passed. The next one is on the horizon. Between now and then, how will you and your team prepare yourselves to design and implement an effective plan or strategy for advancing Truth and Reconciliation in your organization? How will you improve or strengthen relationships with Indigenous employees, clients, and business partners, and increase engagement, recruitment, and retention? How will you measure the return on your investment?
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Consider the following 7-step program to help you on your journey of exploration and growth:
1. Set up a formal and professional assessment of intercultural competence. https://sightsonsuccessconsulting.com/services/
2. Attend a professional debrief and feedback session to understand how effectively you engage with cultural differences.
3. With the help of your Intercultural Development Consultant, design a Learning & Development Action Plan based on your current orientation to cultural differences and strengths. Identify a focus on Truth and Reconciliation. For example, your Action Plan could include taking a course such as Reconciliation Education that is offered by First Nations University of Canada.
4. Meet regularly with your Intercultural Development Coach for support with implementing your Action Plan.
5. Develop insights with the help of your Intercultural Development Coach and use them to address your intercultural communication and Truth and Reconciliation challenges.
6. Take a follow up professional assessment of intercultural competence to measure your growth with developing an intercultural mindset and ability to shift perspective and change behaviour.
7. Set new goals for learning and action for Truth & Reconciliation appropriate to your new and more complex understanding and experience of cultural differences.
Contact Sights on Success Consulting to find out more about this program. https://sightsonsuccessconsulting.com/contact/
As a First Nations majority-owned business, we are on the path to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and we are continually looking to improve. Good briefing on steps to accomplish. Thanks for sharing.