These notes will help when briefing a trainer and drawing up a contract. Below are the essential requirements of a Disability Equality Trainer.
Your trainer needs:
- to be a disabled person.
- experience devising and delivering Disability Equality Training with a proven track record as a trainer (including references).
- skills, knowledge and ability to advise on strategic planning and policy development.
- an ability to undertake a training needs analysis and negotiate the training objectives, content and style with your organisation to reflect key concerns.
- to be using equal opportunities practices throughout their work and not just as it relates to disability.
- an ability to work and communicate with staff at all levels of the organisation.
- a willingness to begin the training from your base line not from their own agenda (i.e. they should be asking questions about previous training and experience).
- a non-confrontational approach which is nevertheless challenging and uncompromising.
- a clear awareness of group dynamics, signified by a discussion on the size and composition of the group and agreement on an optimum number (generally no more than fifteen).
- to make clear what evaluation process will follow the training - both for them and for you, including how the organisation will move forward.
- a professional approach - this includes a reasoned justification and breakdown of fees and charging structure.
A trainer for arts organisations should also have the following:
- knowledge and experience of arts organisations and their practice.
- knowledge and experience of arts practice - methodologies, structures, policy, issues, etc.
- a clear understanding of Arts and Disability and Disability Arts practice.
- a training programme, objectives and materials relevant to arts organisations.
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