Relational leadership skills focus on the human side of connection and compassion, as the foundation to driving psychological safety, pro-integrity and organisational performance.
Diversity
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Many cultures, one APS’ brings to life experiences of working in the APS as culturally and linguistically diverse employees through a collection of 12 individually crafted stories.
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Unconscious bias affects all APS employees and impacts the APS’s ability to design, develop, and deliver services for all Australian citizens. By establishing a shared understanding of unconscious bias, employees will gain confidence in identifying and addressing unconscious bias in the APS.
Courses
Leaders who have the skills to foster and maintain meaningful relationships that inspire, empower and support others drive organisational success, as well as psychological and psychosocial safety within their teams.
A foundational eLearning course for the Australian Public Service (APS) on respecting and understanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures.
The Cultural Capability Hub is a central repository of practical guidance and suggested resources to support staff to uplift their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural capability.
This four-part workshop series, consisting of two themes, offers SES leaders a deep dive into unconscious bias for organisational change. Supported by follow-up workshops, SES leaders can share personal reflections and action plans.
Resources
The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) provides a range of resources to support diversity and inclusion in APS workplaces.
Find information on why accessibility is in the Digital Service Standard and how you can meet the Standard through applying accessibility principles in the Discovery, Alpha and Beta stages of design.
This draft guide developed by members of the Australian Public Service and community members provides tips on how to run inclusive and welcoming online workshops and meetings.
Comcare provides a range of learning resources to help identify, prevent and respond to bullying and harassment.
The APS Learning Design Manual pulls together some practical principles, examples, useful links, and tools & templates to support designers throughout the learning design process.
The FLOE Inclusive Learning Design Handbook is designed to assist in creating adaptable and personalised resources that can accommodate a diversity of learning preferences and individual needs. It offers guidance whether you are creating simple text-based resources, animations, applets, simulations or full production videos.
An award-winning Online Accessibility Toolkit developed by the South Australian Government. It provides best-practice guidelines, policies, resources and tools to support users in various job roles to ensure accessibility is considered in design.
A short video developed by the Government of South Australia on how (and why) the Online Accessibility Toolkit was created.
Step-by-step instructions and best practices for making your PowerPoint presentations accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities.
Accessibility is a mandatory standard for government agencies. Understand agency responsibilities and commitments and access guidance on designing accessible and inclusive content that is respectful of our diverse nation.
This APS Academy factsheet presents some helpful tips on improving the accessibility of your publications, for both print and reading online.
The accessible colour palette builder is a tool to help you design accessible digital content in colour combinations that are suitable for people with visual impairments or colour vision deficiencies.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Capability Framework provides a basis for building the cultural capability of the Commonwealth public sector.
The Vision Australia Accessibility Toolkit provides information to help you understand accessibility requirements and provides a range of resources to support you to create accessible and inclusive information, particularly for blindness and low vision.
Six different posters on the dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility in the areas of: low vision, deaf or hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.
Information on the four principles of WCAG, including tips on how to design web content to ensure that it is perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.