Disabilityworks Training Institute

Disabilityworks Training Institute logo Tap into America's Largest Minority. Educate your staff on business excellence when interacting with customers and workers with disabilities.

"Disabilityworks delivers top-notch training that's essential to our diversity goals."
Jeremy Mahan, Manpower

Become a Sponsor

Enhance your brand as a disability-friendly business: Tap into the $220 billion market that consumers with disabilities represent by Sponsoring the Disabilityworks Training Institute.

Order from our Staff Training Menu

Since 2005, the Chicagoland Chamber's Disabilityworks Department has been training companies on profitable and actionable disability-employment topics. Our client list includes Walgreens, Manpower, Wal-Mart, Comcast, Zurich North America, and Illinois Department of Employment Security.

Order the session that is right for your company. Each staff disability training is interactive and highly customizable. Choose from the following training options, mix and match, or become a Sponsor.

Staff Trainings for Any Company:

Disability Awareness Training
Create an inclusive environment: How to effectively communicate and be comfortable while interacting with customers and staff who have disabilities
$500 for 2 hours

Disability Population
Disability Consumer Market
Communication Tips
Disability Category Overview

Disability Awareness for Caregivers
For employees who have also become caregivers for loved ones
$500 for 2 hours

Caregiver Best Practices
Communication Tips
Self Advocacy Movement

Business Case for Hiring People with Disabilities
How employing workers with disabilities is tied to profitability
$500 for 2 hours

Business Innovation
Tax Incentives
Federal Contract Compliance
Employees and Customers
Technology and Accommodations
Resources and Research

Reasonable Accommodation Cases
Under the ADA, employers have been successfully providing reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities for over two decades. Learn how it's done.
$500 for 2 hours

Disability Overview
Reasonable Accommodation Process
Accommodation Examples by Disability Category

Non-Profit Staff Trainings:

How to Place People with Disabilities in Jobs
For job developers, employment counselors, vocational coordinators, and rehabilitation counselors
$750 for 3 hours

Value Added Intake Process
How to Make the Business Case for Hiring People with Disabilities
Engaging Employers
Fielding Tough Questions from Employers

Sales Techniques for Workforce Developers
For workforce developers who need quality face-time with employers
$500 for 2 hours

Understanding Business Language
Perfecting your Pitch
Sales Techniques that Work

Community Business Surveys for Workforce Developers
For job placement agencies who serve job seekers that may be hard to place (developmental disabilities, blind, etc.)
$500 for 2 hours

Using Social Capital
Systematic Approach to Business Prospecting
Creating Questions Relevant to Business Needs
Mapping Business Needs to Job Seeker Interests
Focused Follow Up

Trainings are available on or off-site. Sessions outside of Chicagoland may require additional fee for travel and expenses.
To become a Sponsor, or book a training:
Call 312-494-6729 or use our online Contact Us form.