Inclusive Workplace
An inclusive workplace celebrates and values difference. Employees don’t need to hide their disability or health condition and can give their best to the role. Creating an accessible workplace is not as difficult or expensive as you might think, and changes benefit everyone.
Start your journey for creating an inclusive workplace by signing up for inclusion training or business mentoring and check out the resources below.
Build your disability and inclusion capability
Bite-Size Learning: Purple Orange Podcast episodes
Underrepresented, undervalued, and underpaid: Breaking through employment barriers
Join Gavin as he takes listeners through his employment journey and what that has looked like at various stages of his career. Things could have turned out very differently for him, but he knew the universe was telling him to take a chance...
Find out how he carved out his own path and created new opportunities for himself.
It is great that more businesses, organisations and government talk about engaging the disability community. But, if they are only doing tokenistic tick and flick engagement, it's not going to make much difference.
This episode gives you six key tips for good engagement.
In this episode of the Purple Orange Podcast Jae Marie Jaensch explains some of the ways language is regularly used that's harmful to the disability community. But she's not talking about disability slurs or victimising language. Instead, she guides us through something much trickier; Things people think are nice, but actually aren't.
If you are an ally, or want to be an ally, to the disability community, this episode is for you.
What if the biggest risk was not taking one?
Ellen refused to let fear, hers or anyone else’s, dictate her life. From working overseas to chasing bold adventures, listen to how she challenged expectations, claimed her right to adventure and risk, and found freedom on her own terms along the way.
Additional Resources
Creating an accessible and inclusive workplace
Introduction to Disability and Accessibility (Microsoft Inclusion training video)
The Valuable 500: Building Inclusive Organisations
Making Audio and Video Media Accessible
Web Accessibility Fundamentals Overview