Training
The Business Disability Forum offers training courses and workshops on different aspects of disability management and confidence to the membership generally; it also tailors training to meet the specific needs of a particular organisation. Most courses are either free or discounted for Business Disability Forum members, while non-members pay the full training fee. Most of the trainers and presenters are disabled themselves. In 2010, nearly 1,500 people attended EFD training events.
Training methods vary. In addition to face-to-face training, the organisation offers telephone tutorials, expert speakers to events and online training – or a combination. One example of online learning is ‘Disability Confident’, developed in 2004 by Skill Boosters, a company specialised in inclusive learning, in partnership with the Business Disability Forum. Disability Confident is an interactive learning resource which uses case scenarios and activities as a basis of learning about best practice, legal obligations and how to maximise the access and contribution of disabled people as employees and customers.
Another key online resource and publication, ‘Realising Potential’, sponsored by Intercontinental Hotels, was launched by EFD in 2006. It presents the new business case for disability, emphasising the benefits which result when a company becomes disability competent, and contains facts and figures on disability as it affects business and the global economy, case studies, and advice on stakeholder engagement and on organisational change.
The Realising Potential website has had around 24,000 visits per year since its launch and is now being updated to provide a global resource to global business. The new site will be branded: ‘The New Business Case’ for realising potential.
The Business Disability Forum also provides a policy and procedural audit services designed to help employers design barrier free and adaptive processes for recruitment, retention of people who become disabled, and doing business with people with disabilities.
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