CAPABILITY SERVICES
Build Māori capability while maximising the cultural competence of your staff
We help organisations grow their cultural competency, strengthen teams, and engage meaningfully with Māori in order to understand their perspectives. Our work includes: organisational development, team resets, HR projects, capability uplift, learning tools, and building connections with Māori communities.
Our Services
CULTURAL CAPABILITY
Haemata works with clients to build cultural competence by developing solutions that:
- support and enhance employee mana
- build a holistic Māori-centered recruitment process
- support organisational practices and policies that increase the retention of Māori.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Tailored programmes for both public and private sector leaders focused on building cultural capability; including te reo Māori, tikanga Māori, and understanding of Māori-crown relations (for public sector leaders).
HR STRATEGY
We bring a 'systems thinking' approach to human resource solutions. Haemata has extensive experience in developing HR strategies that:
- promote the well-being of all employees
- engage and retain Māori
- develop systems that assist with managing performance.
Our Work
Project: Kia Whiria
Developed an online interactive tool and facilitated a series of wānanga providing advice and technical content to 1,000 Crown Lawyers in relation to Crown’s legal obligations under Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Project: Te Pou o te Tangata
Organisational development initiative delivering 48 wānanga to engage the workforce and co-design the new set of organisation behaviours underpinned by foundation of Te Ao Māori.
Project: Te Hunga Whiriwhiri
A reset of Te Hunga Whiriwhiri (Māori Outcomes team) – to support the achievement of Te Whāriki (Māori Outcomes Framework).
Project: Culture and Values
Deliver a stakeholder and workforce engagement process in order to inform and develop the organisations new set of values and to define its desired culture.
Project: Engagement on Māori Economic Resilience
Engagement process to gain insight from Iwi, Māori Businesses and Māori Communities on supply chain vulnerabilities, exposure to disruption, and resilience strategies.
Project: Organisation Restructure
Support ELT to design and complete a whole of organisation restructure.
Whāinga Amorangi | Public Sector Cultural Capability
Haemata works with public-sector organisations to meet their Whāinga Amorangi and Māori Crown Relations Capability Framework requirements.
We assist organisations with their Māori Crown capability training through:
- Providing tailored individual and organisational development plans.
- Delivering the necessary training in accordance with the development plans.
- Developing cultural competency frameworks.
- Ensuring leadership teams are supported to engage their staff in meeting the competencies of the framework.
- Designing, developing and delivering learning assets.
Haemata’s strength is assisting organisations to become an employer of choice for Māori.
We have complete capability work for the following clients:
Online Course | Te Tiriti o Waitangi
This course covers the basic facts you should know about what the situation was in New Zealand before the Treaty was signed in 1840, how it came to be signed, and how the two versions, in Māori and English differ, and why this is still important.
