Creating an inclusive workplace starts with leadership. ‘Leading Inclusively: Creating a Disability Friendly Workplace’ is an essential course designed to help you foster an environment where employees with disabilities can thrive. Helping you to understand inclusive language, the importance of accessible recruitment practices, handling disclosure respectfully, and navigating conversations around accommodations, this course equips you with the knowledge needed to support your team effectively. Strong leadership means knowing how to support every team member. This course will prepare you with the actionable strategies you need that you can implement immediately.
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This section will help you understand some basics about disability. You will learn about visible vs. non-visible disabilities, myths about severity and function, different durations and onsets of disability.
This section will talk about the power of language and how it can both positively and negatively impact people with disabilities. It will discuss person-first and identity-first language, evolution of disability terminology, and dealing with the fear of saying the wrong thing.
This section discusses the importance of leaders who have compassion and empathy for their employees and can view their employees holistically as people with intersecting identities.
This section defines emotional intelligence and it's four competencies. It stresses why emotional intelligence is such a necessary skill for inclusive leaders to have.
This section begins to explore disability and employment. It discusses a broader overview of a career as a layered and nuanced journey. The section reflects on the intersection of disability and employment life-cycles.
This section explains the importance of accessible job postings and different considerations when making your postings so that they are accessible.
This section explains what essential and non-essential duties are and provides examples. Selecting and refining essential job duties is a crucial part of writing inclusive job postings and job descriptions.
This section provides you with questions that you should consider when setting up an accessible interview. It also discusses which questions you can and cannot ask candidates during an interview.
This section discusses what you should do when offering the candidate a job.
This section will explore disability disclosure, what it is, why it is personal, and what you should and shouldn't do when someone discloses to you.
This section discusses what accomodations are, what responsibilities you have as a leader, as well as tools and resources you can use to assist someone with finding proper accommodations.
This section will discuss topics such as onboarding, interacting with employees with disabilities, and the importance of flexibility, compassion, and trust.
This section discusses why accessibility is essential in an office and provides some accessibility options for an office.
