Category: Disability PR
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How to be an awesome and inclusive presenter
Making presentations accessible – from design to delivery Presenting is something almost all communications pros will likely need to do at some point in their career. From client pitches, to presenting data back to teams, to sharing best practice at industry events, it’s important that your slide deck, and how you deliver it, is accessible.…
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INPR’s ultimate accessibility library for comms pros
Accessibility resources all comms pros should bookmark (including this blog!) May 18 2023 marks the 12th Global Accessibility Awareness Day. For comms professionals, accessibility continues to increase in importance. From inclusive language to tools for accessible meetings there are now many fantastic resources to ensure our communications and PR campaigns are as inclusive as possible.…
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Safe space inclusion training
Are my disability inclusion training sessions safe spaces? It’s a fair question. Safety and comfort can be confused when it comes to EDI training. This is because being challenged on views, or having tough truths laid out in front of you is confronting. Especially when we’re used to enjoying the benefits of our relative positions…
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Professionalism be damned, it never suited me anyway
Professionalism be damned, it never suited me anyway! I had a difference of opinion with someone on LinkedIn recently and it ties into something I talk about in my training sessions. It centred around having videos on in meetings, but what really it came down to is what people view as professional or not in…
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To pay or not to pay?
To pay or not to pay? Two incidents in the past few weeks have highlighted an ongoing issue – paying disabled people to speak or appear at an event. Both Naidex and Disability Expo have been called out on social media for either not paying the disabled people who have appeared or are due to…
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When a non-visible disability becomes visible
When a non-visible disability becomes visible As the three year mark of having Long Covid approaches, I’ve been slowly trying to pick up the pieces and stitch them together to create some kind of new life. A big part of that is returning to work. No-one, except those close to me, sees my bad days,…
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Turning awareness into action
Turning EDI awareness into action and allyship Going beyond awareness into action is often the stumbling block for many people on their disability inclusion learning journey. What to do with the knowledge you’ve gained? How to act on the insight and skills you’ve built up? It remains one of the most popular questions I get…
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Disability and the inclusion agenda in PR
It feels remiss to not mark #NationalInclusionWeek with a blog on the forgotten sibling in public relations’ diversity agendas. Usually falling after the final ‘and’ in a sentence, disability has always had to shout, stamp and push to be included in diversity discussions. My first industry blog on this was 2016 and in the intervening…
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Apathy, privilege and DEI
Last week a blog I wrote on the business case for diversity was published on CIPR’s Influence site. On Twitter an industry colleague posted that the article made them depressed because “…those we seek to engage on diversity and inclusion shrug and say “I don’t care”.” It led to an interesting discussion picking apart why…
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10 Ways to improve disability recruitment in PR
Here’s the thing about most EDI statements for recruitment, they’re doing the bare minimum. You’re an equal opportunities employer, great! It’s the law. You support applications from marginalised groups? Wonderful. That’s still a pretty low bar. We can and should be aiming higher and being bolder about what we’re saying and how we’re saying it.…