Leadership Essentials - Including Persons with Disabilities in the Workplace: Managing Requests for Reasonable Accommodation

Some persons with disabilities may require changes to how, when, or in what format they complete tasks in order to do their best work. When they approach you to ask for one or more accommodations, it’s important that you take these requests seriously and do your best to implement them. In this topic, we’ll go over some best practices for managing a request for reasonable accommodation as a leader, including how to communicate it to the rest of your team and evaluate its effectiveness.

Topics covered are:

•  Describe how to determine a solution for a request for a reasonable accommodation
•  Describe how to communicate changes associated with a reasonable accommodation to your team
•  Describe how to evaluate the effectiveness of a reasonable accommodation

This course includes:

• Approximately 4 minutes of video lessons.
• A quiz with multiple-choice questions to check your understanding.