Building a Neurodiverse Workforce Strategy
Learn about the business benefits of hiring neurodiverse employees and how you can incorporate this into your workforce strategy
What will I learn in this course?
While diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have made some impressive strides over the years in terms of race, gender, sexuality and more, there is one population that is still conspicuously absent from most DEI strategies: neurodivergent workers. And yet, 15-20% of the population is neurodivergent. Which means you are likely managing and/or working with neurodivergent colleagues, whether you realise it or not.
Despite the prevalence of neurodiversity, research shows that neurodiversity is still not a commonly addressed area in Diversity Equity & Inclusion initiatives. One study demonstrated that only 37% of the companies included in DiversityInc’s (2018) article “Top Ranked US Companies for People with Disabilities” specifically mention “neurodiversity” as part of their DEI initiatives.
This training course will help you to understand the business benefits that you gain by building a neurodiverse workplace strategy. It will support you to link the skills and strengths available from neurodivergent employees to the capabilities needed for your workforce strategy. It will enable you to go beyond hiring alone and look at the whole employee experience of neurodivergent employees, looking beyond just autistic tech workers when considering a broader neurodivergent workforce strategy.
In this course Sonia Allinson-Penny walks you through:
What are some of the amazing skills and capabilities that you're going to get access to when you take a broad view about what we mean by neurodiversity
What are some of the practical accommodations that you can make to support not only the employee experience of neurodiverse employees but the general employee population
What can we learn from some of the pioneers in this field such as JP Morgan Chase, SAP and Google
Finally, what are some of the pitfalls that you can avoid when considering your neurodivergent workforce.
This course aims to provide a practical, end-to-end guide on how you can driver greater business value for your organisation by ensuring you consider neurodivergent workers in your workforce strategy
Click on the FREE PREVIEW of the course introduction above to see what you will learn by enrolling in this course.
Get Certified with myHRfuture
The ‘Building a Neurodiverse Workforce Strategy’, skill booster certification empowers you to build the technical skills and knowledge you need to be able to understand and link the skills and strengths available from neurodivergent employees to the capabilities needed for your workforce strategy.
Our unique mix of training courses, videos, interviews, podcasts, case studies and articles help you build hands on skills while providing real life context to what you’ve learnt.
By completing this certification you’ll build the practical skills you need to go beyond hiring alone and look at the whole employee experience of neurodivergent employees, ensuring you maximise the business benefits building a neurodivergent workforce brings.
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Course Curriculum
This course is approximately 1 hour long and includes the following modules that will give you a clear understanding of what macro-level organisation design is and how you can conduct it in your organisation.
Module 1 - Underpinning Assumptions of Strategic Workforce Planning, Diversity & Inclusion and Employee Experience
Module 2 - Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Module 3 - The Business Benefits of a Neurodiverse Workforce
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