Our neurodiversity profile template helps neurodivergent employees talk to their colleagues, manager or employer about their strengths, any workplace adjustments they may need and their key preferences, so the people they work with can understand how they work best.
If you’re about to start a job, or you’d like to talk about your neurodivergence with your colleagues or manager, the profile gives you something concrete to start the conversation with. If you’re still deciding whether to share, our questions to help you decide about disclosing may help.
Why is it useful?
Filling out the neurodiversity profile and sharing it with your team or manager can be useful in three ways.
First, it helps your manager and team understand your strengths and challenges, and how your neurodivergence may affect your work. That makes it much easier for them to offer the right support and adjustments. Acas guidance on neurodiversity at work explains how employers can support neurodivergent staff.
Second, it helps colleagues understand neurodiversity better, and hearing about real experiences and needs does a lot to break down stigma and misconceptions.
Finally, it opens up honest conversation between you and your manager, which builds trust over time. Our guide to disclosing to your manager walks you through that conversation step by step.
How do I use it?
- Download the template. Use the link below to download the neurodiversity profile template and save it to your computer.
- Open it on your computer, tablet or phone.
- Complete your neurodiversity profile. Spend 10 to 20 minutes filling it in, thinking about the different areas and how they apply to you.
- Share your profile with your manager and team. Once it’s finished, share it with your team and manager if you feel comfortable.
- Follow up. It can be helpful to arrange a team meeting to discuss your profile.
Other free templates
If you’d like to go further, our working styles guide helps a whole team share how they prefer to work, and our disclosure templates give you ready-made wording for telling an employer about your neurodivergence. Starting somewhere new? Read our guide to disclosing your neurodiversity at a new job. If you’re a manager and someone has shared their profile with you, here’s how to respond when an employee discloses their neurodivergence.
How Enna can help
A profile like this only works if managers know what to do with it. Our supporting and managing neurodivergent employees training turns awareness into practical management skills, and our Empowering Neurodivergent Employees workshop helps neurodivergent staff build the confidence to advocate for what they need. For individual support, a workplace needs assessment identifies the right adjustments. Book a call to talk about your team.
If you are job hunting, you can find employers who welcome different minds on the Enna jobs board, and register for job alerts. Got a question about the template? Get in touch with the Enna team.
