Core Managers: Increasing Disability Positivity

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Core Managers: Increasing Disability Positivity
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Overview

Understand the definition and impact of disability to better support, celebrate, and advocate for your disabled colleagues.

Duration	4 weeks
Total fee	₹3,799
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Intermediate
Credential	Certificate

Core Managers: Increasing Disability Positivity
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Highlights

Earn a certificate from NHS Leadership Academy

Core Managers: Increasing Disability Positivity
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Disability positivity is about challenging society's negative perception of disability to instead recognise and celebrate diversity in the workplace. On this four-week course from NHS Leadership Academy, you'll learn how to be disability positive as a manager.
Guided by diversity and inclusion experts, you'll learn how to support, celebrate, and advocate for your disabled colleagues. You'll be able to use your training to create a culture of disability positivity in your team and workplace.
Before you can begin challenging negative assumptions and practising positivity, you need to understand what is meant by "disability"
You'll examine the legal definition of disability, and explore the distinction between visible and invisible disabilities. You'll also discuss the social model of disability and the role that society itself plays in creating barriers for disabled people.
Once you've understood the meaning of disability, you can begin developing the leadership skills you need to create a disability positive culture.
You'll learn what you as a manager can do to lead by example and build an environment in which your disabled staff feel celebrated and supported.
In the last two weeks of the course, you'll focus on concrete strategies for addressing the needs of disabled staff.
You'll look at a range of real-world examples of reasonable adjustments that have measurably improved the lives of disabled individuals in the workplace.
At the end of the course, you'll take away key action items that you can implement immediately in your own workplace.