Supporting KSAs for this area

Knowledge Of Ability To Attributes
  • Suitable, culturally appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication methods
  • Active listening and questioning methods
  • Workplace policies and procedures related to communication
  • Communication styles and preferences of diverse stakeholder groups
  • Storytelling and other approaches
  • Interpret other people’s nonverbal cues
  • Describe ideas, concepts and issues that involve interpretation, analysis and assessment of complex conceptual topics
  • Apply effective oral, written, and digital communication strategies and principles
  • Advocate for diverse perspectives
  • Develop authentic connections with diverse audiences
  • Partner to shape strategic communications
  • Network and build relationships
  • Professional judgement
  • Intercultural understanding and agility
  • Emotional intelligence and awareness of self and others (including social location, and privilege
  • Critical thinking
Competencies
1. React/Follow

2. Act/Apply 3. Anticipate/Initiate/Enable 4. Lead/Strategize
Competency Title Demonstrate self-reflexivity and inclusive behaviour Apply an intersectional lens Demonstrate a respectful relationship with all Indigenous people and communities Foster partnerships with diverse individuals and communities Create an environment of inclusion and collaboration
Competency Statement Demonstrate self-reflexivity and inclusive behaviour within own role and areas of responsibility Apply an intersectional lens when working and engaging with others Demonstrate a respectful relationship with all Indigenous people and communities Foster partnerships with diverse individuals and communities Create and sustain an environment of inclusion and collaboration
Performance Criteria
  1. Understand your own social location, reflect on responsibility and commitment and best practices involved in working respectfully with diverse cultural worldviews and perspectives
  2. Practice self-reflexivity about personal and/ or professional cultural biases, assumptions, and worldviews
  3. Take responsibility for own life-long learning even when that learning is uncomfortable.
  4. Act to support equality, fairness, equity, and inclusion.
  5. Work respectfully, knowledgeably and effectively with diverse and culturally distinct individuals or groups
  6. Demonstrate openness, curiosity and appreciation for others
  7. Recognize and accept different types of knowledge and experience, e.g. lived experience as knowledge
  8. Engage in fruitful, honest and respectful discussion with people holding different values
  1. Understand your own social location, reflect on responsibility and commitment and best practices involved in working  respectfully with diverse cultural worldviews and perspectives
  2. Practice self-reflexivity about personal and/ or professional cultural biases, assumptions, and worldviews
  3. Employ a multi-dimensional and intersectional understanding of stakeholder perspectives, needs, rights, capacities and concerns.
  4. Demonstrate an understanding and respect for differences related to age, genders, sexual orientations, ability, socio-economic status, culture and history.
  5. Take responsibility for own life-long learning even when that learning is uncomfortable.
  6. Support decolonization and reconciliation through critical self-reflection on privilege, power, partnership
  7. Act to support equality, fairness, equity, and inclusion.
  8. Apply an understanding of group dynamics, cultural norms, structural bias, and collaborative decision making
  9. Work respectfully, knowledgeably and effectively with diverse and culturally distinct individuals or groups
  1. Demonstrate openness, curiosity and appreciation for others
  2. Responsive to the culture, capacities and capabilities of those directly and indirectly involved.
  3. Recognition and acceptance of different types of knowledge and experience, e.g. lived experience as knowledge
  4. Engage in fruitful, honest and respectful discussion with people holding different values
  1. Adopt a relational approach to engaging and working with Indigenous peoples and communities.
  2. Navigate historical and political dimensions of Indigenous knowledge and lived experience with sensitivity.
  3. Critically explore and integrate insights shared by local and Indigenous knowledge and rights holders.
  4. Employ a multi-dimensional and intersectional understanding of stakeholder perspectives, needs, rights, capacities and concerns.
  5. Respect the rights and title of Indigenous peoples and nations and their implications for climate action
  6. Take into account Indigenous cultural experiences and perspectives on the environment, climate change and climate action
  7. Demonstrate understanding and respect for Indigenous rights and knowledge systems
  8. Demonstrate understanding and respect for Indigenous relationships to and reliance on the natural environment.
  9. Demonstrate openness and appreciation for local and regional Indigenous history, culture, traditional knowledge and worldviews
  10. Demonstrate openness and appreciation for Indigenous scientific methodologies.
  11. Incorporates the rights and knowledge of Indigenous peoples in narratives, taking into account their unique cultural experiences and perspectives on the environment, climate change and adaptation, mitigation, governance and ways of being.
  1. Employ a multi-dimensional and intersectional understanding of stakeholder perspectives, needs, rights, capacities and concerns.
  2. Demonstrate understanding and respect for the value of collective processes and protocols
  3. Apply an understanding of group dynamics, cultural norms, structural bias, and collaborative decision making
  4. Incorporate into practice, an understanding of how social and historical contexts, and structural and interpersonal power imbalances shape experience, and contribute to race, class, and gender-based, etc. discrimination or disadvantage
  1. Builds and supports movements, describes the goal, theory of change, and rationale for movement.
  2. Employ strategies to create safe, creative spaces
  3. Draw on and incorporate diversity of values, motives, and attitudes
  4. Employ a diversity and inclusion approach that respects the rights of affected communities or subpopulations
  5. Lead from a foundation of emotional and relational intelligence
  6. Constructs strategies that foster commitment, solidarity, and ownership in ways that translate into action
  7. Acts as a catalyst for change by supporting cultural shifts and communicates alternative futures in a way that motivates, supports and enables growth at multiple scales (individual, organizational, collective.
  8. Applies knowledge of movements to anticipate challenges within and against a movement, works with movement to overcome them
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