How do you think we can better educate our team about ADHD and other invisible/visible disabilities?

What’s something you wish more people understood?

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How ADHD impacts people differently and what can happen in a work setting that can throw someone off for the day, hour or minute.

How people with ADHD can create unhealthy habits like overworking because managing time is difficult.

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Don’t send random meeting invites without telling them what the meeting is about. Great way to derail productivity until the meeting happens and probably after because of the anxiety hangover.

Be exceptionally clear in your expectations of the work needing to be done.

Don’t let your gifted ND top performers get bored and quit because you’re not offering them novel ways to engage and grow. Once I get bored with a role I am looking to leave if I am not promoted quickly.

I have been a SME at every job I have ever had. Every time I leave an organization a huge chunk of business knowledge goes with me because I have an above average memory and attention to details.

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Actually take time to listen to and try to understand your neurodivergent employees and their struggles with the current infrastructure. I know it's a lot but getting to understand each person's unique presentation and triggers is so helpful. I'm aware that's difficult to do at a large scale but it has helped my employees in the past tremendously. If you could get someone to compile a list of grievances that they have with their roles that would be helpful. So like for me, I struggle with positions that expect me to constantly be pivoting and focusing on multiple things and people while still masking. It sends my body into overdrive. So if I'm in the middle of something it's dysregulating and affects my productivity to have someone come up to me and ask me to do something completely different when I'm already doing like 5 things. Or if someone will only give me verbal instructions I need to take notes or have them send me an email. Certain facets of neurodivergency present differently for people and it can cause different issues for the same symptom in different people. As a manager I made it a point to be able to notice people's "tells" and things they preferred to do. I had ND people that I could give solo projects to and ones I couldn't because they would get distracted and I had to consciously stay aware of that. I had ones that had sensory issues that struggled during high stress moments and it became important to be able to adapt to people's needs because sometimes that person needs to get away from the chaos immediately or they would have a meltdown. Unfortunately that job was very stressful for them and almost everyone left because of systematic issues that made the job more difficult. I guess the most important thing I'd say is be open minded. Some of my ND employees have been some of the brightest people I've ever met but because their ideas were outside of the box or would require restructuring they were not taken as seriously as they should have when it would have really helped the business and those employees. Just recognize as a company that in order to change the culture you will hear suggestions you may not like or that will sound strange or pointless but if you let people explain their reasoning and connect the dots I've often found that the employees that did come up with these ideas were able to solve problems others couldn't. They provided answers to efficiency problems that plagued the company for years and that impeded their jobs. If companies are open to change it would transform the workforce because more and more people are realizing they are neurodivergent. But they can only do that if they feel their feedback is welcome and not going to be attacked by a company as soon as they share their perspective.

I think I agree with all of your points, once I made it all the way through. To be honest I kept getting bogged down after reading the first 1/3 of your block of text.

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