How Neurodiversity shows up at work
Workshop Overview
What you see in your team is only part of what's happening.
How Neurodiversity Shows Up at Work is a 60-minute interactive workshop, part of our Neuroinclusion for Managers Programme. It gives managers a deeper, more practical understanding of how different neurotypes present in the workplace – so that behaviour makes sense, assumptions get replaced with insight and managers can lead with greater clarity and fairness.
- What this delivers
- Why it matters
- How it works
- Who's it for
- What this leads to
Understanding that neurodiversity exists is very different from understanding how it actually shows up in the people you manage every day. This session bridges that gap - giving managers a deeper, more practical understanding of how different neurotypes present at work and what that means for how they lead, communicate and support their team.
- A practical understanding of the four most common neurotypes - Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia - and how they show up in everyday workplace behaviour
- The ability to recognise what's really happening beneath the surface when an employee's behaviour seems confusing, inconsistent or hard to read
- An understanding of the spiky profile - why neurodivergent employees can be exceptional in some areas and need more support in others, and why that's not a contradiction
- Awareness of masking, burnout and sensory sensitivities - what they are, what they cost and how to spot the signs before they become serious
- A clearer understanding of executive functioning and how it affects focus, organisation, time management and task completion
- The ability to approach difference with curiosity rather than assumption - and manage more fairly as a result
Most management problems that involve neurodivergent employees aren't actually performance problems. They're understanding problems.
A manager who doesn't understand how ADHD affects time management will keep interpreting lateness as attitude. A manager who doesn't understand masking will miss the burnout building quietly underneath a high-performing exterior. A manager who doesn't understand the spiky profile will focus on the areas of difficulty and overlook the exceptional strengths sitting right next to them.
When managers understand how neurodivergence actually shows up at work, everything shifts. Behaviour that previously felt confusing starts to make sense. Assumptions get replaced with curiosity. Conversations become more honest because managers know what questions to ask and what to listen for.
The result is management that's fairer, more effective and better for everyone in the team - neurodivergent or not.
1 hour | Up to 20 managers | Delivered virtually | Interactive and discussion-led | Part of the Neuroinclusion for Managers Programme
This session is for people managers and team leads who want to move beyond a surface-level understanding of neurodiversity and build the depth of knowledge that makes them genuinely better managers.
It works particularly well as an early module in the Neuroinclusion for Managers Programme, for managers who have completed a general awareness session and are ready to go deeper, and for organisations where managers are already navigating situations involving neurodivergent employees and need better tools to understand what they're seeing.
This session is part of the Neuroinclusion for Managers Programme - a series of one-hour modules giving managers the practical tools to lead neurodiverse teams with clarity and confidence.
Interested in how the full programme could work for your organisation? We'd love to talk.
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