Right-handed or left-handed? Have you worked for the university for 10 years or more, or less? Are you a morning or night person? This activity illustrates how we are all different and was part of a mandatory Equality and Diversity training course I attended at the university this last week.
The half day’s training had varied activities including a presentation, group discussion, watching a DVD clip, and some short quizzes to test what we had learnt. The DVD clip was thought-provoking and was about a non-disabled person attending a job interview and how he was treated disfavourably by disabled people he came across during this day. This turns the more familiar scenario on its head of how disabled people can sometimes be treated disfavourably by society.
We also learnt about disability and completed an exercise suggesting how adjustments can be made to help disabled people.
A very interesting and useful day’s training on equality and diversity and some ideas I can take back to my workplace.
