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Beyond Accommodation

First course in Naming the Right. Course 06 — 9 lessons across 3 modules.

The course in KCG's curriculum that reframes accommodation from a favor granted at organizational discretion to the operational mechanism through which an organization honors a right that already exists.

Modules

# Module Lessons
1 The Rights Frame and the Reality Gap 01 What accommodation is supposed to do · 02 Visible and hidden disability · 03 Coded language
2 The Three Layers — Systems, Culture, Leadership 04 Systems and processes · 05 Culture and expectations · 06 Leadership development
3 From Diagnostic to Roadmap 07 Mapping your current state · 08 Three-phase roadmap · 09 Sequencing and hard moments

Source: ~/Documents/GitHub/kcg-client-portal-courses/06-beyond-accommodation/

Signature practices

The curriculum is in the source course; this section names the practices and links to the lessons that teach them.

  • The rights-standard measurement — diagnose against rights established by UDHR and CRPD, not against best-practices benchmarks; the two frames produce different verdicts on the same situation. See Rights frame, Name-only accommodation; source: lesson 01-module-1-what-accommodation-is-supposed-to-do.md.
  • The three-layer diagnostic — locates the gap as living in systems, culture, or leadership development; layer mismatch is one of the most common ways accommodation work fails. See Three-layer diagnostic, Layer mismatch; source: lessons 0406 (module 2).
  • The three-phase roadmap — Diagnostic → Design → Implementation — fixed-order sequence; compression of Design under timeline pressure is the most common cause of accommodation work that fails to close the gap. Implementation is measured by rights delivery, not by accommodation volume. See Three-phase roadmap, Rights delivery; source: lesson 08-module-3-three-phase-roadmap.md.

Source citations referenced in this course

KCG (canonical):

  • Kovach, J. (2026). The Naming Work: A Diagnostic Practice for Rights-Based Leadership. Kovach Consulting Group.

External instruments grounding the rights frame:

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). United Nations General Assembly. Articles 1 and 23.
  • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006). United Nations. Articles 1 and 2 (definitions of accommodation and discrimination).