HR Leadership Disability Awareness Training

HR Leadership Disability Awareness Training

Join us at the Kilton Public Library for a dynamic event focused on Disability Awareness Training for HR professionals. This in-person training will cover essential topics to help leaders create inclusive workplaces. Learn about best practices, legal considerations, and practical strategies to support employees with disabilities. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your HR leadership skills and make a positive impact in your organization!

1. Definition of Disability: Understanding what constitutes a disability and its various types, including physical, sensory, cognitive, and developmental impairments.
2. Communication Skills: Learning respectful language and adapting communication styles to diverse needs.
3. Reasonable Accommodations: Identifying and providing necessary adjustments to tasks, schedules, or environments for employees with disabilities.
4. Interactive Process: Engaging in collaborative discussions between employers and employees to determine appropriate accommodations.
5. Unconscious Bias: Addressing and overcoming biases about individuals with disabilities.

Benefits of HR Disability Training:

- Increases awareness of disability diversity in the workplace.

- Improves relations and fosters an inclusive environment.

- Improves communication due to enhanced understanding of individuals with disabilities.

- Reduces stigma through challenging stereotypes and misconceptions about disabilities.

- Positively impacts recruitment and retention by attracting qualified individuals with disabilities.

Training completes a step in the process of becoming Certified as Disability-Friendly. Contact Dr. Kendra LaRoche, executive director at SNSC, for more information about the Certification process.

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