What works?
What works? is Business Disability Forum’s new webinar series designed to guide you through the essentials of disability inclusion. Led by BDF experts, drawing on the experiences of over 600 businesses, What works? will help you decide where to focus your time and resources, and where not to.
At each webinar, you can expect:
- A summary of the law and requirements.
- Practical tips and best practice solutions that really work.
- Signposting to a wealth of resources that will help you continue to build your knowledge.
- The opportunity to ask questions of experts from our Advice Service.
These webinars are open to all, but will be particularly useful for business leaders, HR professionals, and D&I professionals. 
All webinars will be hosted on Zoom and will be BSL interpreted and live captioned.  
Save the dates for the webinars listed below. To be the first to know when we are taking bookings for the next dates in the series, keep an eye on our upcoming events or subscribe to our newsletter.
Webinars
What works? Recruiting disabled employees.
Wednesday 19 March, 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm.
This webinar will focus on where to advertise, how to design inclusive job descriptions, and how to make reasonable adjustments to your recruitment practices. It will help you to create recruitment processes that are inclusive, accessible, and attractive to the disabled talent that you want to attract to your organisation.
What works? Reasonable adjustments for disabled colleagues.
Tuesday 20 May, 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm.
This webinar will help you identify when a colleague might need reasonable adjustments and how to make, record and review them. It will help you create an inclusive culture where disabled employees feel valued, which contributes towards creating productive, high performing teams.
What works? Disability data monitoring and collection.
Tuesday 8 July, 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm.
This webinar will help you focus on why you are collecting data, when to ask about disability and when it is inadvisable, and how to ask questions that will elicit the most useful answers. Crucially it will also help you understand what to do with the data you have collected to improve employee engagement and create a more inclusive workplace.
What works? Retaining disabled employees.
Thursday 16 October, 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm.
This webinar will help you to focus on what disabled employees really want from a workplace. Free food and duvet days or flexibility, adjustments and a supportive manager – what makes a great place to work that talented employees don’t want to leave, and how can you create it?
If you require this content in a different format, contact enquiries@businessdisabilityforum.org.uk.