Supporting you to create positive team culture, strong leaders and thriving workplaces
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The past few decades have been marked by an increased understanding of the need for ensuring safety and diversity in organisational culture.
Fundamental to this shift has been the recognition that an inclusive workplace culture that values and supports staff is essential to long-term success.
A safer workplace culture, with a robust people and culture strategy in place, will enable your people to feel safe, seen, heard, valued and connected. When they do, your entire dynamic as an organisation will be enhanced, and this will translate to success in business.
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We will work closley and collaboratively with you to build a safe, respectful and sustainable culture, and train you to have the skills and capability to continually maintain your safe culture.
By supporting you to experience a safer internal culture, our work with you will establish the conditions for your staff to thrive personally and professionally.
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We deliver our diversity, culture and inclusion training programs worldwide, in person and via online video technologies.
Diversity, inclusion and culture training for Australian teams and workplaces
Eliminate miscommunication, inequality and sexism with a robust people and culture strategy
The experience of safety is essential for living a nourishing and connected life. Ensuring that your workplace team culture enables your staff to feel safe, seen, heard, valued and connected, is fundamental to organisational success and for creating a legacy of employee satisfaction.
Primal Intelligence works with organisations to create and develop safe and inclusive workplace cultures across two domains — safety in the workplace and equality in the workplace.
Safer workplace culture
At Primal Intelligence we are passionate about supporting leaders, teams and entire organisations clients to collaboratively build safe, respectful and sustainable team cultures. Our vision is for our organisational clients, and all their staff, to experience conditions that enable them to thrive both personally and professionally.
This only occurs when an organisation’s culture embeds shared understandings of boundaries and collective values with emotionally intelligent leadership.
Once developed, internal workplace cultures can be maintained with effort, dedication and appropriate education and training related to particular relational technologies that allow staff to safely communicate differences and embrace diversity.
Diversity and inclusion training ripples out and has an impact beyond the workplace. It helps catalyse a safer, respectful and more inclusive culture in families and throughout the broader community.
Primal Intelligence has supported clients to develop safer workplace culture strategies in a variety of ways including via:
Programs to support clients to responsibly and safely embrace cultural diversity and difference (including race, religion, gender identity and sexuality).
Programs to support Aboriginal organisations to address lateral violence occurring within the workplace.
Our Safer Culture programs draw on cutting-edge leadership, psychological, psychotherapeutic and organisational knowledge and best-practice. Our approach to diversity and inclusion training emphasises team culture through collaborative and group-learning outcomes while creating space for individuals to express their identity and values safely.
““I feel a lot more connected with myself and my team, I’ve learned to deeply appreciate and acknowledge and the results are pouring in”
Equality in the workplace
In recent decades the silence has been broken on issues of gender inequality, safety at home and in the workplace, sexism, and toxic masculinity. As a community, we are beginning to talk more openly about insidious and entrenched dynamics in the workplace involving sexual harassment and men in positions of privilege and power.
The scale and success of the Me-Too movement are but one example of how we are coming together as a community to take a stand against a particular form of unsafe masculinity and harassment. Such movements impress upon us that real change is possible, and indeed essential if we are to live in communities that are safe and respectful for all, irrespective of gender or sexual orientation.
At Primal Intelligence we work collaboratively with our workplace culture clients to courageously address issues of gender inequality, safety, sexism and toxic masculinity in their workplace.
This type of team cultural repair involves working at both the individual and group level. It firstly requires one-to-one engagement with men in the workplace in order to address each man’s beliefs, values and most importantly, the pain that sits under their personal expression of masculinity.
Our directors at Primal Intelligence have all held, and continue to hold, local, national and international leadership and group facilitation positions with the Mankind Project, a network of over 70,000 men in 22+ countries.
Between us, we have decades of experience working closely with men to support them to embody conscious, safe and responsible masculinity. We have worked tirelessly with groups in order to catalyse safe, responsible and emotionally intelligent cultures free from harassment.
““I feel like we had the opportunity to be human again and this is priceless” ”
CASE STUDY: Creating a safer workplace culture
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Primal Intelligence was commissioned by a State Government Department with a high proportion of Aboriginal staff, to investigate and report on the prevalence of lateral violence amongst staff.
We initially delivered a half-day collective discovery workshop, attended by 105 participants, at the Department’s annual conference. This was followed up with strategic engagements with the leadership team and with smaller groups across the organisation. A number of meetings and mediations were facilitated via audiovisual platforms and in-person experiential workshops.
Our approach was to foster ownership and personal responsibility for the repair of ruptures in intra-human relationships within the Department.
Smaller groups were supported to become unified, in order to courageously speak to the influence of colonisation and its ongoing impact. This vulnerability and willingness to hear ‘the other’ created a sense of empowerment and togetherness.
From here, participants were able to communicate with the executive team in an empowered way. Deeper and more compassionate conversations followed, which included honest discussion about the impacts of disconnection and lack of cultural safety and respect felt by Aboriginal people and groups across the Department.