A truly accessible workplace is built in from the start, not added later. It means rethinking HR policies, making learning materials usable for everyone, and offering candidates a choice of interview format. Training designers need to create accessible modules so all employees can access the same opportunities.
What does making work accessible look like to you and look like to your business partner, Mike?
It's a workplace that is truly accessible from the start. So it's, it's gotta be things like rethinking your practices and principles in HR is a lot of the things that I focus on. It's how you make your learning and development accessible to all of your learners. It's how you make your physical spaces accessible to the people that are in them. So making work accessible Accessible means a lot of things in a lot of different ways, but it really means a workplace where everyone's included and everyone has access to the same resources and same potential.
How do you see a truly accessible workplace functioning then compared to what we have now?
Let's say you are interviewing someone for a job at your company. Instead of conducting the interview in the way you prefer, offering an accommodation, offering that employee a choice of the interview format. Other things like that, embedding accessibility into practices and principles, and really thinking about, in your example, in our world of learning and development, making sure that the learning designers on your team know how to create accessible learning so that everyone that encounters that next training module on, uh, you know, workplace harassment, whatever we all have to take, that it is truly accessible to all of us.
I had never thought about the job interview and issues people might have with that process. So that, that was a wonderful explanation and example of how you see truly accessible and inclusive work processes.
