The Culturally Intelligent Safety Professional is back for season 2 with a great line up of guests from New Zealand and around the world. In episode 1 we talk again to crowd favourite Jodhi Warwick Ponga about enhancing cultural intelligence through a Māori lens.
Our conversation focused on how individual leadership and behavior can promote cultural intelligence within an organization. As we know, leadership is a series of moments where individuals demonstrate cultural intelligence, which can influence others and create a movement.
We talked about the development of cultural intelligence among safety professionals and emphasized the significance of cultural intelligence as a learnable skill, and how this can be facilitated through the use of the self-reflective assessment tool, ko au te ao, created by Te Ropu Marutau o Aotearoa. You can find out more about this by visiting the following link
https://www.trma.co.nz/ko-au-te-ao.
I have distilled our conversation into 5 Key Points, first:
1. Cultural Intelligence is a Learnable Skill: which can be developed and improved through self-assessment, reflective practices, and active participation in cultural experiences.
2. The Self-Reflective Assessment Tool: developed by TRMR which is based on the Haumaru Tangata framework can help individuals and organizations enhance their cultural intelligence.
3. The goal of the tool is to empower individual health and safety representatives to become cultural catalysts within their organizations, driving change through their own personal growth and influence.
4. Encouraging whānau participation in the workplace, expanding cultural competency training, fostering partnerships with Māori organizations, and embedding cultural values into policies are essential steps for cultural integration.
5. Participating in cultural activities and being curious about colleagues' traditions, and pushing through anxieties when engaging in new cultural experiences can lead to valuable learning and growth.
#connection #engagement #value #culturalintelligence
