Education and consultancy services

We conduct confidential organisational reviews incorporating tailored surveys, focus groups, interviews and data analysis to better understand staff demography and current experience of the workplace, and identify systemic barriers to equity and diversity.

We partner with organisations of all sizes to develop tailored action plans that align with their strategic and business goals. These action plans enable organisations to achieve their full potential as diverse, inclusive and fair workplaces, reflecting their communities and customers.

We work closely with clients to implement comprehensive programs addressing gender inequality in the workplace, such as our Raise it! program, which helps organisations achieve improved gender equality outcomes.

We support effective transformation projects by developing tailored communication plans that link the benefits of equal opportunity change programs to an organisation’s strategic and cultural success.

This program develops the ability of leadership to prevent and respond to unlawful workplace behaviour. It builds understanding of their responsibilities and develops skills to address discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation in the workplace. It identifies the role of managers in modelling respectful behaviours and fostering inclusive team culture. This program can be extended to include a skills component on the role of managers to encourage and support safe bystander action. This program is ideally suited for leaders, managers, and supervisors.

This program helps staff and organisations identify unlawful behaviour in the workplace, including discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation. It discusses why appropriate workplace conduct is important. It builds confidence in taking action to respond and complain about unlawful behaviour at work. This program can be extended to include a skills component on bystander action, acknowledging the important role we all play in modelling respectful behaviour and influencing team norms in the workplace. This program is ideally suited for all employers and employees.

This program is designed to improve the identification of behaviour that amounts to sexual harassment in the workplace. It focuses on the harm that sexual harassment causes and the role of everyone in addressing workplace culture. It develops understanding of how to respond to sexual harassment. Participants also have access to the Commission’s innovative Sexual Harassment Support and Response Tool; a digital chatbot that has been proven to help Victorian workers identify sexual harassment and demonstrate safe bystander behaviour, access support if they have experienced sexual harassment, or support a colleague who has experienced sexual harassment. This program is ideally suited for all staff.

This program is designed to support organisations to comply with their positive duty under the Equal Opportunity Act by building workplace cultures that protect employees against gender-based discrimination. The interactive content is designed to improve understanding and empathy and assist participants to address the unhealthy gender stereotypes that perpetuate discrimination and workplace harm. Participants also have access to the Commission’s innovative Flexible Work Request and Parental Leave Planners, digital chatbots that have been proven to build confidence and competence of managers and employees across Victoria to have healthy, safe and constructive conversations about flexible work arrangements, pregnancy and parental leave. This program is ideally suited for team leaders and managers.

Our education services help public authorities meet their Charter obligations. We have a range of delivery options that can be tailored to individual workplaces, outlined in our Charter services brochure. Our programs focus on:

• Leadership responsibilities: We support executive and leadership teams to understand their responsibilities under the Charter and identify ways to strengthen and embed leading practice, based on our Human rights culture indicator framework.
• Manager responsibilities: We equip managers with the expertise, skills and mindset to meet their Charter responsibilities and lead good human rights practice.
• Staff responsibilities: We work with public sector teams to build understanding of their human rights obligations and develop skills to apply the Charter in their day-today work.
• Policies and practices: We help organisations review their policies and practices with a view to strengthening their systems and processes to comply with the Charter.
• Action planning: We work with public authorities to identify actions to build a culture of human rights, meet their Charter obligations and improve services to the community.
• Embedding practice: We support public authorities to develop innovative and customised resources, systems and processes to embed and sustain good human rights practice.
• Aboriginal cultural rights: We assist public authorities to build their understanding of Aboriginal cultural rights and how these rights are applied in their work.
• COVID-19 and the Charter: We support public authorities to understand human rights risks relating to the pandemic and make Charter-compliant decisions.

This course equips new Contact Officers with fundamental knowledge and skills to be a first point of contact in the workplace to provide confidential and impartial information to help their colleagues resolve workplace issues of unlawful discrimination, sexual harassment, bullying or victimisation.This program is ideally suited to new Contact Officers.

This program is designed to ensure Contact Officers keep up to date and deepen their practice. The program discusses developments in equal opportunity law and practice, and enables officers to debrief and learn from peers. This program is ideally suited to Contact Officers every two to three years.