Disability Confident Workforces
This 2-hour, online course is suitable for participants in any role of an organisation.
This course is for a maximum of 20 participants per session. Please ensure your company IT policy permits the use of Microsoft Teams.
This course is made up of:
1. Pre-course (approximately 20-25 minutes)
Participants complete a short quiz covering basic disability facts and help them understand their level of disability confidence.
2. Online facilitated (2 hours)
This activity-based learning will cover disability definitions, statistics and the aim of disability confidence. As well as modelling accessible online meeting practice, the training will investigate why access and inclusion matters, alongside identifying impacts, barriers and adjustments for people living with disability.
Training courses available
- Tuesday, July 11, 2023 1pm – 3pm (Sydney time)
- Tuesday, July 25, 2023 10am – 12pm (Sydney time)
- Tuesday, August 8, 2023 1:30pm – 3:30pm (Sydney time)
- Tuesday, August 22, 2023 10am – 12pm (Sydney time)
- Tuesday, September 5, 2023 1pm – 3pm (Sydney time)
- Tuesday, September 19, 2023 10am – 12pm (Sydney time)
- Tuesday, October 17, 2023 10am – 12pm (Sydney time)
- Tuesday, October 31, 2023 1:30pm – 3:30pm (Sydney time)
- Tuesday, November 14, 2023 10am – 12pm (Sydney time)
- Tuesday, November 28, 2023 1pm – 3pm (Sydney time)
- Tuesday, December 12, 2023 10am – 12pm (Sydney time)
Cost
- Price for members: $195 per person
- Price for non-members: $225 per person
Disability Confident Managers
This 2-hour, online course is suitable for participants in management or senior leadership roles in an organisation. The training will build disability confidence, so participants feel empowered to make change in their roles as a people leader, to progress access and inclusion.
This course has a maximum of 20 participants per session. Please ensure your company IT policy permits the use of Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Forms.
This course is made up of:
1. Pre-course ( approximately 25-30 minutes)
Participants complete a short quiz that will cover basic disability facts and test their level of disability confidence.
Topics covered will include:
- the ethical case
- social good
- their company’s Access and Inclusion Plan
- key indicators of a Disability Confident organisation
2. Online facilitated Part 1 (90 minutes)
A large part of this first facilitated training will be a focus on building disability awareness through a range of mediums.
Incorporating an overview of disability definitions, statistics and the overall aim of disability confidence, this part will:
- model accessible online meeting practice
- investigate why access and inclusion matters.
- identify impacts, barriers and adjustments for people living with disability
- discuss why people do and don’t share disability related information, and
- recap learning AND’s 3 guiding principles
Activity-based learning in the final section will see participants use word cloud prompts to discuss a video relevant to disability confidence.
3. Online facilitated Part 2 (90 minutes)
Part 2 builds on disability awareness, creating inclusive and enabling environments as managers and senior leaders.
Participants will recap important learning from prereader material through live quiz activities with real time results, with topics including Person First Language, inclusive communication tips, inclusive behaviours and environments, equality vs equity and the Employment Assistance Fund.
Training courses available
- Part 1: Wednesday, 12 July 2023 9:30am – 11am (Sydney time) + Part 2: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 1:30pm – 3pm (Sydney time)
- Part 1: Wednesday, 23 August 2023 9:30am – 11am (Sydney time) + Part 2: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 1:30pm – 3pm (Sydney time)
- Part 1: Wednesday, 4 October 2023 9:30am – 11am (Sydney time) + Part 2: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 1:30pm – 3pm (Sydney time)
- Part 1: Wednesday, 15 November 2023 9:30am – 11am (Sydney time) + Part 2: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 1:30pm-3pm (Sydney time)
Cost for both sessions
- Price for members: $260 per person
- Price for non-members: $290 per person
Inclusive Recruitment
This online course is suitable for participants in any HR and recruiting roles.
This course has a maximum of 20 participants per session. Please ensure your company IT policy permits the use of Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Forms.
The course is made up of:
1. Pre-course (approximately 25-30 minutes)
Participants complete a short quiz with answers drawn from a pre-course reader, designed for participants to learn basic disability facts while understanding their level of disability confidence. While building knowledge of accessible and inclusive communication and essential role requirements (focusing on what needs to be achieved, not how), the pre-course reader and quiz will examine considerations for applications, screening, testing, interview, offer and induction.
Completion of this survey provides participants with a link to the 2 x 90 minute sessions
2. Online facilitated Part 1 (90 minutes)
A large part of this first facilitated training will be a focus on building disability awareness.
Incorporating an overview of disability definitions, statistics and the overall aim of disability confidence, this part will model accessible online meeting practice, investigate why access and inclusion matters, identify impacts, barriers and adjustments for people living with disability, working with hiring managers, and debunking myths about recruiting people living with disability.
Activity-based learning in the final section will see participants address a hypothetical scenario and discuss their own work practices (if company policy permits).
3. Online facilitated Part 2 (90 minutes)
This part of the course builds on disability awareness, including:
- Person First Language
- inclusive communication tips
- behaviours and environments
- Equality vs Equity and the Employment Assistance Fund
The second facilitated training centres on activity-based learning where participants cement new ideas through discussing gold standard recruitment practice, and applying thinking to scenarios investigating the five parts of a recruitment cycle.
Training courses available
- Part 1: Wednesday, 26 July 2023 9:30am – 11am (Sydney time) + Part 2: Wednesday, August 2nd 1:30-3pm (Sydney time)
- Part 1: Wednesday, 6 September 2023 9:30am – 11am (Sydney time)+ Part 2: Wednesday, 13 September 2023 1:30pm – 3pm (Sydney time)
- Part 1: Wednesday, 18 October 2023 9:30am – 11am (Sydney time) + Part 2: Wednesday, 25 October 2023 1:30pm – 3pm (Sydney time)
- Part 1: Wednesday, 29 November 2023 9:30am – 11am (Sydney time) + Part 2: Wednesday, 6 December 2023 1:30pm-3pm (Sydney time)
Cost for both sessions:
- Price for members: $260 per person
- Price for non-members: $290 per person
