Disability Awareness: Working with People with Disabilities
$399.00
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
This course will assist with welcoming people with disabilities into workplaces, learning how to Interact with people with disabilities, identify and overcome barriers in the workplace, use respectful, appropriate, acceptable language in any circumstance, understand appropriate interaction during the hiring and interviewing process, and understand what job accommodation is and how it applies in a workplace.
- Duration approximately 4 hours.
- Access period 30 days.
- Self-Study Guide provided.
- Quick Reference Guide provided.
- Certificate of Completion provided.
- Content last updated January 2020.
- A full description of this course is located below.
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Return to StorePeople with disabilities represent a significant and largely underutilised resource for businesses. Many disabled persons are underemployed or unemployed. As a result of advocates for diversity, as well as a shrinking labour pool, employers are taking a serious look at hiring and retaining people with disabilities. This significant course will give supervisors, managers, and human resource consultants tools and tips for creating a diverse workplace.
You’ve probably got clients list that are keen to meet their obligations for disability management, accommodation, and diversity, but they just don’t know where to start.
Our two-day Disability Awareness course offers an introduction to essential topics such as misconceptions and realities of working with people with disabilities; the business case for hiring people with disabilities; resisting the urge to label; removing physical barriers at work; stereotypes; understanding communication in a diversity and disability context, and more.
These training materials are rich with current content, and solutions to hiring and retaining disabled people in today’s workplace.
What Will Students Learn?
- Prepare to welcome people with disabilities into your workplace
- Interact with people with disabilities
- Identify and overcome barriers in the workplace
- Use respectful, appropriate, acceptable language in any circumstance
- Understand what your company can do during hiring and interviewing
- Understand what job accommodation is and how it applies in your workplace
What Topics are Covered?
- Defining terms
- Misconceptions and realities
- Dissecting labels
- Accessibility
- The cornerstones of diversity
- Encouraging diversity by hiring
- Using the STOP technique
- Communication essentials
- Communication styles and critical conversations
- How do we make it happen?
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