Work is where many of us spend a good chunk of our lives. It’s where we greet each other, share ideas, learn new things and stop for a kawhe. That makes it a pretty important place for te reo Māori to be heard, used and shared.

At Coffee Supreme, te reo has become part of everyday life in ways that are both nui (big) and iti (small. It’s in the mōrena shared around the roastery, the karakia that opens our all-hands hui, the signs around our spaces and the names proudly worn by our coffee.

None of it happened all at once. As Olivia from our Performance and Culture team puts it, it’s about doing things 1% better, making it safe to have a go and learning from the people around us.

For Wenerei | Wednesday of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, Olivia shares more about the role workplaces can play and how we’re folding a little more reo into the working day at Coffee Supreme.

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