Training & Professional Development
Training & Professional Development
About our Training & Professional Development Programs
EFA offers a range of concise, impactful professional development programs tailored to different audiences, whether front-line staff, people leaders, executives, and HR practitioners.
The following courses are regularly offered as small-group, facilitated programs. This gives participants an opportunity to not only engage with the content in a hands-on, case-study based way, but also to benefit from the perspectives of your peers in other organisations.
If you don’t see what you’re after or would like to discuss bespoke training tailored to your or your organisation’s needs and context, please let us know. We can work with you to adapt content, examples, duration and delivery format, or develop a bespoke session for a particular team, role or workplace priority. For further information see our Specialist Consultancy & Support Services page.
Australian HR Institute
We also offer select courses through our partners at the Australian HR Institute, which provides AHRI members with CPD points, including:
Current Programs
Practical Workplace Adjustments for Managers
Empower your team – Build capability – Make inclusion practical! This workshop provides a practical and approachable guide to supporting neurodivergent employees through workplace adjustments. The training is designed to help managers identify barriers, respond to adjustment requests with confidence, and implement inclusive strategies that support performance and wellbeing.
Inclusive Communication for Managers
This 90-minute virtual workshop provides managers and team leaders with practical strategies to support clear, respectful, and inclusive communication with neurodivergent employees. Grounded in real workplace scenarios, the session explores how communication styles can vary, how to approach conversations with care, and how to build trust through active listening and feedback that supports wellbeing and performance.
Recruitment & Retention through a Neurodiversity Lens
Strengthen your workforce – Attract diverse talent – Build long-term inclusion!
This workshop explores how unconscious bias and traditional practices can impact neurodivergent candidates and employees. Designed for managers, HR professionals, and recruiters, the training provides practical strategies to attract, recruit, and retain neurodivergent talent throughout the employee lifecycle.
Fair and inclusive performance management
This 60-minute virtual workshop provides managers and leaders with practical strategies to address performance concerns in a way that is fair, inclusive, and supportive of neurodivergent employees. The session explores how to recognise when challenges may stem from unmet adjustment needs, how to intervene early to prevent escalation, and how to apply a neuroaffirming approach to both informal and formal performance processes.
Understanding masking and burnout
Neurodiversity 101
This 90-minute session provides an introduction to neurodiversity and neurodivergence in the workplace. Participants explore autism, ADHD and dyslexia, including potential strengths, challenges and individual differences. The session also examines sensory processing differences, masking, burnout and self-regulation, including stimming, and introduces practical ways to recognise and support neurodivergent people at work.
Neurodiversity at Work
Increase awareness, reduce barriers and strengthen inclusion! This 2.5-hour session builds organisational understanding of neurodiversity and its relevance to workplace communication, participation and team effectiveness. Participants explore the social model of disability, sensory differences, masking and burnout, and learn practical strategies including inclusive communication, workplace adjustments and strength-based approaches to supporting neurodivergent colleagues.
Neurodiversity Best Practice Management
This half-day workshop translates neurodiversity awareness into practical leadership capability. Designed for managers, it explores communication, workplace adjustments, psychological safety and performance management. Using real workplace scenarios, participants build confidence in responding to support needs, managing complex situations and applying consistent, fair and inclusive leadership practices.