31/01/2023
Disability empowerment and work – 4/4.
How to empower employees with disabilities in your workplace👇
Embracing disabilities in the workplace goes well beyond the hiring process. Your company needs to foster an inclusive environment backed by long-term strategies and support systems to set people with disabilities up for success.
🔴Implement company-wide training on disability inclusion.
🔴Hire a consultant to help with your company-wide training on disability inclusion.
🔴Provide support for employees with disabilities.
🔴Communicate your disability plan internally.
🔴Don't forget the Golden Rule-Employees with disabilities can be as productive as ordinary employees. The key is to match the right candidate with the right job. Once you hire employees with disabilities, you need to treat them as people who possess the core skills requires for their job. Hold them to similar standards as other employees.
Don’t shy away from giving them feedback or correcting them when they make mistakes. Employees with disabilities need to feel that they are doing their best for the business, and you should help them identify areas of improvement. Such an approach to employee management can also prop up employees with disabilities for opportunities to advance in their careers as they fine-tune their skills.
The job market is overflowing with an untapped talent pool of people with disabilities, both visible and hidden. The sooner employers can tap into this pool, the better they can make their organizations. Such an approach will increase workplace engagement, employee retention rates, innovation, and employee morale. Revamp your workplace to support employees with disabilities and enjoy the benefits.
Source: www.meetbreeze.com/blog/disabilities-in-the-workplace/
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