Mentoring Co-workers with Disability (MCD) provides your staff with vital skills to empower new employees with a disability to learn their job.
This 1 full-day course provides participants with the confidence to train and support co-workers with disabilities to become independent and productive members of their workforce. The course has been running for over 25 years and has been attended by over 2,500 co-workers across the public and private sectors. This course can also be customised to suit your business needs and presented at your workplace.
Program Content
- Understanding disabilities
- Enhancing inclusion
- Instructing the worker
- Reminding the worker
- Encouraging the worker
- Correcting the worker
- Enhancing performance
- Facilitating independence
- Reviewing performance
- Achieving performance changes
Learning Objectives
At the end of this short course participants will be able to:
- Assist the worker to become a valued member of the workforce
- Understand and make the most of the worker’s abilities
- Break down the jobs into an easy-to-teach, easy-to-learn “task analysis”
- Instruct the worker how to perform the job in a safe manner
- Provide quality and quantity of work aligned with the industry standards
- Overcome the common difficulties that affect performance
- Provide feedback that encourages and assists the worker to make improvements
- Advocate for the worker when and where necessary
- Have basic understanding of some common disabilities that EDGE works with
This program is recommended for
- Supervisors who are supervising a worker with a disability
- Co-workers who are working with a worker with a disability
Program Details
Venue: Subiaco
Time: 8.45am – 4.30pm
Includes:
- Lunch, morning and afternoon tea
- Training manual and course material
2018 dates
- Wednesday 7th February
- Tuesday 13th March
- Wednesday 18th April
- Tuesday 22nd May
- Wednesday 27th June
- Tuesday 31st July
- Wednesday 29th August
- Tuesday 2nd October
- Wednesday 7th November
- Tuesday 11th December