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Workshops and training

Practical, industry aligned workshops

First Nations led sessions built for your audience, online or face to face. Groups of 25 to 50, with content tailored to your organisation rather than an off the shelf deck.

All staff

Foundational Cultural Awareness

Builds the shared baseline: history and its ongoing impacts, Country and connection, language and terminology, and respectful practice day to day.

Length
2 to 2.5 hours
Format
Online or face to face
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You will cover

  • History and its ongoing impacts
  • Country and connection
  • Language and respectful terminology
  • Respectful practice day to day

Good for

  • All staff, office and field based, in the same room
  • Organisations starting or refreshing a RAP
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Managers and supervisors

From Awareness to Culturally Capable Leadership

What do I do differently when I go back to work tomorrow? Five everyday workplace situations, real scenarios and a 30 day action plan.

Length
2.5 hours
Format
Online or face to face
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You will cover

  • What culture is and why it matters at work
  • Moving from awareness to capability
  • Recruitment, communication, performance, conflict and cultural safety
  • Practice scenarios and a personal 30 day action plan

Good for

  • Managers, supervisors and team leaders
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HR managers and leaders

Cultural Awareness and Capability for HR

Embedding cultural capability into recruitment, policy, employee relations and measurement, built around Understand, Recognise, Respond, Embed, Measure.

Length
2 to 2.5 hours
Format
Live online
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You will cover

  • HR systems across the employee lifecycle
  • Employee and industrial relations
  • The Understand, Recognise, Respond, Embed, Measure framework
  • An HR Cultural Capability Action Plan

Good for

  • HR managers, people and culture teams and leaders
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Frontline and field teams

Practical Cultural Capability

For trades, maintenance, facilities, security and site crews. Real on-the-job scenarios and the simple rule: when you are not sure, stop and ask.

Length
2 to 2.5 hours
Format
On site or online
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You will cover

  • Why this matters on the job
  • First contact and communication
  • Real scenarios from site and field work
  • When to pause and who to ask

Good for

  • Trades, maintenance, facilities, grounds, security and logistics crews

Includes

  • Certificate of participation
  • Pre and post confidence check for RAP reporting
Contact ussales@emustalking.com.au
HR and executives

Who's Already Here

Attracting, identifying and keeping First Nations staff. Includes an identification and data toolkit plus a 45 minute executive briefing.

Length
150 minutes
Format
Online or face to face
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You will cover

  • Why staff do not identify, and what employers can change
  • Attraction, onboarding and the first 90 days
  • A four part identification system
  • Four changes, four owners, ninety days

Includes

  • Identification and data toolkit
  • 45 minute executive briefing
Contact ussales@emustalking.com.au
Three module series

Truth Telling: Listen, Learn, Act

Foundations, the history of the Country you work on, and turning what you heard into change. Delivered with a strong duty of care.

Length
3 x 150 minutes
Format
Online or face to face
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The three modules

  • Foundations: what truth telling is and where Australia is up to
  • Our Own Place: the history of the Country you work on
  • Truth to Action: from what we heard to what we change

Duty of care

  • Advance content warning and voluntary attendance
  • A named support person on the day
  • Support pathways provided in writing
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Boards and directors

Governance Training

Leadership, roles and responsibilities, compliance, risk management and reporting for boards and committees, including Aboriginal corporations.

Length
Half or full day
Format
Online or on Country
More details

You will cover

  • Leadership and the role of the board
  • Roles and responsibilities of directors
  • Compliance, including CATSI Act and ORIC requirements
  • Risk management and reporting

Good for

  • Boards, committees and new directors
  • Aboriginal corporations and community organisations
Contact ussales@emustalking.com.au
New and emerging leaders

Leading vs Managing Staff

The difference between leading people and managing tasks, and how to do both well in a culturally safe workplace.

Length
Half day
Format
Online or face to face
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You will cover

  • The difference between leading and managing
  • Setting expectations and giving feedback
  • Supporting people through change
  • Leading in a culturally safe way

Good for

  • New and emerging leaders and supervisors
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Teams and leaders

Building a Positive Workplace Culture

Practical tools for respect, communication and wellbeing that help teams work better together.

Length
150 minutes
Group
25 to 50 people
Format
Online or face to face
More details

You will cover

  • Respect and inclusion at work
  • Clear, honest communication
  • Wellbeing and team connection
  • Practical team commitments

Good for

  • Whole teams, managers and leadership groups
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Organisations and community

Grant Writing Workshop

Two days plus a clinic, and you leave with a draft. Participants work on their own real application, with a workbook to reuse for the next grant.

Length
2 days plus a half day virtual clinic
Group
12 to 15 people
Format
In person
More details

You will cover

  • Finding the right funding
  • Planning your project before you write
  • Writing to the assessment criteria
  • Budgets and evidence of impact

Includes

  • A participant workbook to keep and reuse
Contact ussales@emustalking.com.au
Start-ups

Our Way, Our Business

A five session start-up series on being your own boss: getting started, testing your idea, start-up essentials, branding and marketing, and going digital.

Length
5 sessions
Format
Group workshops
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The five sessions

  • Getting started
  • Idea validation
  • Start-up essentials
  • Branding and marketing
  • Going digital

Good for

  • First Nations people exploring self-employment
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Start-ups and small business

Introduction to Business

A full day workshop on starting and strengthening an enterprise, from your idea and structure through to customers, money and next steps.

Length
1 day (6.5 hours)
Format
Group workshop
More details

Good for

  • People starting a business
  • Owners who want to strengthen an existing enterprise

Pairs well with

  • Our Way, Our Business (5 sessions)
  • The Business Ideology Workshop
Contact ussales@emustalking.com.au
Job seekers

Work Ready Yarning Days

One day pre-employment yarning days for job seekers, run with employment partners. Each day stands alone, or run them as a series.

Length
1 day each
Format
Face to face
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The six days

  • Walking in Two Worlds: Strong Before You Start
  • Strong Money, Strong Culture
  • Deadly Digital
  • Strong In My Circle
  • Ready, Set, Work
  • Walking Forward

Good for

  • Pre-employment and job readiness programs
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First Nations businesses

The Business Ideology Workshop

A strength based workshop to draft the heart of your business: purpose, vision, mission, values and story.

Length
Half day, full day or 2 x 90 minutes
Group
8 to 16 people
Format
In person or online
More details

You will leave with

  • Every statement drafted in your workbook
  • Five core values
  • A yarning circle stakeholder map
  • Three SMART goals and a 12 month action plan

Good for

  • First Nations entrepreneurs and owners rebranding
  • Community controlled organisations
  • Incubator cohorts
Contact ussales@emustalking.com.au
First Nations youth

Walking in Two Worlds

A culturally grounded school to work transition program for First Nations students in Years 10 to 12.

Length
Scoped with the school and community
Format
In school, in community and with employers
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Includes

  • Cultural mentoring and yarning circles
  • Individual career plan, resume and interview preparation
  • Work experience with a prepared employer
  • Cultural safety preparation for employers
  • Support after leaving school

Delivered by

  • Male and female coordinators
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Cultural training starts from $1,500 + GST. See cultural training pricing. Other workshops are quoted to your group.

Every session includes

Where culture is respected, people thrive
  • First Nations lead facilitation
  • Content tailored to your organisation
  • A participant workbook to keep
  • Live Q and A and a moderated chat
  • Attendance record and post session summary for RAP reporting
  • All preparation and scheduling handled for you