9 Top Tips in Disability Network / Resource Group Leadership

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PurpleSpace Andy Garrett leading a network meeting

Driving cultural change for disabled people isn’t easy. It requires great leadership skill – and being a network / resource group leader isn’t easy. It requires you to be the very best ‘you’ in your leadership role. In this briefing, Kate Nash OBE, founder and CEO of PurpleSpace shares with us the things she has learnt about great leaders working in disability rights – which can be applied to network / resource group leadership. These tips are drawn from the works of many bloggers who write on leadership as well as the interactions she has had with hundreds of great network / resource group leaders working around the world. They hold true for executive sponsors / champions and allies.

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Working With Your Disability Champion or..

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'Disability Champion' or 'Executive Sponsor' is a term used to describe colleagues who believe that disabled people should experience full equality in the workplace. They are likely to be people who understand that employees can perform better if they can be themselves and ask for the adjustments they need (if they need them at all) and they will use their role and influence to create a workplace

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Ten Point Plan for Purple Networks and L..

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Employee networks or resource groups are ultimately about people. With the right values, direction and leadership, they can make a significant and lasting contribution to how the organisation anticipates, accommodates and celebrates its disabled talent.

Every organisation is different, so every network or resource group will have different aims and objectives.

Having worked with hundreds of

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Working with Stakeholders April 2018

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In the current business climate, networks/Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) need every ounce of support they can get to help the business understand the power of employee networks. Networks / ERGs can be amazing agents of change, helping embed diversity and inclusion into

the culture of an organisation.

We know that networks / ERGs are processes – they are not destinations.

They are a tool or a

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9 Top Tips in Disability Network / Resource Group Leadership

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