"We must encourage Canadians from all backgrounds to join the public service and play a part in shaping the Canada of tomorrow."
Lucienne Robillard, President of the Treasury Board of Canada
Building a representative public service demands strong leadership and vision.
Managers and supervisors must recognize that a diverse workforce is a better workforce.
Visible Minorities represent a highly educated talent pool the public service needs to
draw from to enrich decision-making and broaden knowledge of the public being served,
thus ensuring better service to all Canadians.
This Web site contains many tools and information about resources available to
assist managers in recruiting, managing and promoting Visible Minorities. The
Government of Canada is committed to building a representative public service
that reflects the values of competence, non-partisanship, bilingualism and
professionalism. This commitment has the full support of the Clerk of the
Privy Council and Deputy Ministers, however, you the hiring manager, can
make it happen. The time to embrace change is now.
Embracing Change: The Business Case
- Embracing Change: A Question of Leadership
Building a more diverse public service requires true leadership on the part of
managers and supervisors. This article examines the important leadership role
for managers leading the way to a more diverse public service.
Practical Tools for Managers
Learning and Development
- Banff Video
Video footage from the 2002 Managers' Forum in Banff, Alberta
featuring Wendy Barrow, of the Treasury Board Secretariat and
Rachelle Lapointe of the Public Service Commission discussing
steps managers can take to hire, promote and retain Visible Minorities.
- Embracing Change Video
This dramatization brings to life some of the challenges and opportunities
encountered by hiring managers and Visible Minorities in the federal public
service. Use this short, informative video to stimulate discussion in your
department or at various events.
- Manager's Video Discussion Guide
This companion guide to the Video will help generate and maintain
a meaningful discussion about issues related to Visible Minorities and
corporate culture change.
- Diversity:
Vision and Action course
This course is designed to enhance the leadership capacity of managers
at all levels of the federal public service to achieve the objectives
of Government's policies and priorities related to workforce diversity.
- Act
on Employment Equity: Expand Your Vision on-line course
This e-learning application is also a pre-course to the Canadian
Centre for Management Development's (CCMD) Diversity: Vision and Action
classroom-based course. Take the pre-course and enhance your knowledge of
employment equity.
- The
Diversity Leadership in Action
This Canadian Centre for Management Development (CCMD) e-learning
application is designed as a stand-alone, self-contained, one-day
learning event intended to be personally customized to meet
specific requirements and assist leaders at all levels to lead
diversity with confidence and bring their departmental employment
equity and diversity strategies to life
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