Personalized Strategies to
Support Neurodiversity

 
 
 

Be the Team That Makes Inclusion Reality.

Workplace Coaching can help employees with ADA-qualifying conditions, including:

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Common Challenges among Neurodiverse Professionals & Employees with Disabilities

Neurodiverse employees can face complex, multi-faceted challenges in daily life--especially at work. Not surprisingly, neurodiverse individuals are more likely to report a poor employee experience than their neurotypical colleagues, often because their team lacks inclusive practices. This lack of inclusive practices can result in a challenging workload and increased stress levels that impacts the whole team.

At the same time, employees managing a new or chronic health condition may struggle to balance their demanding jobs while still prioritizing their physical or mental health. This is a recipe for burnout and turnover--all of which can be avoided with individualized, one-to-one coaching.

The How Skills’ Workplace Coaching program help professionals with disabilities learn effective, evidence-based strategies to reduce barriers related to a medical condition at work. Here are a few examples of clients we’ve helped:

  • An engineer with ADHD and depression who struggled with staying focused in a remote working environment.

  • A recruiter with chronic pain who experienced fatigue and exacerbated medical symptoms from trying to keep up a fast pace at work.

  • A project manager with a traumatic brain injury who needed to learn new ways of managing a large amount of detailed information.

  • A software developer with a learning disability and dyslexia who needed to obtain a certification to move into a new role.

  • A consultant with autism had difficulty retaining information when they became overwhelmed in meetings.

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“I feel like my work and disability are much easier to manage with different techniques on productivity, notetaking, prioritization, and planning.”

Our Workplace Coaching Accommodation Program

Workplace Coaching helps employees optimize executive function skills, remove or reduce barriers related to a disability, and implement research-based systems and strategies that help them manage their workday with greater ease and confidence.

Individualized coaching with The How Skills supports the retention and advancement of a neurodiverse workforce, while helping employees with disabilities reach their goals, including:

  • Overcoming barriers to task initiation, decision-making, and prioritization, especially for managing multiple large, complex projects.

  • Learning strategies to improve communication with managers, teammates, and stakeholders, as well as effective formats for resolving conflicts.

  • Learning stress management techniques and connecting with internal company resources and external resources.

  • Maintaining an effective and efficient organizational system for managing everyday tasks as well as long-term goals.

  • Improving confidence in self-advocacy and identifying effective ways to communicate accommodation needs.

  • Teaching evidence-based strategies for improving focus and reducing the impact of interruptions.

  • Improving time management, especially for those with busy schedules.

  • Establishing new habits and routines that reduce barriers at work and increase productivity.

  • Helping to overcome specific obstacles such as public speaking.

  • Improving email management and organizational systems.

  • Developing strategies for impulse control.

  • Learning reading and writing strategies to increase comprehension and communication.

Learn more about how The How Skills can help you create inclusive teams and organizations through our business solutions.