Description
Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, virtually, with an instructor online.
Course Length: 1 day
Target Audience: General
Learn, Think and Work Differently.
Diversity and inclusion have become buzzwords across corporate and government workplaces, encompassing more than race and ethnicity. People love to talk about the diversity of thought, and the concept of neurodiversity is taking shape in many organizations. As learning and development (L&D) folks, we’ve noticed that as organizations become more inclusive, we must also adapt our approach to training.
Making an organization more inclusive for neurodiverse individuals requires an appreciation of each person within their work context and a focus on getting to know employees individually and leading people on a situational basis. In L&D, we have always known the importance of these behaviours, and we will come to appreciate neurodiversity as much as we enjoy employees’ diverse learning preferences. But we may miss it unless we truly understand what it means to lead while having ADHD or lead employees with ADHD.
Employers or colleagues often do not know someone is neurodiverse unless they tell them. Many large organizations work with agencies that help with recruiting, onboarding, and training — but what can we do if we don’t know about the neurodiverse employees in their professional development or in leadership roles?
How can we ensure that the learning and development programs are inclusive for employees with ADHD? Or how to be more inclusive of staff with ADHD?
Our approach is using the AGES framework to make learning stick better:
Attention—staying aroused and alert enough to focus.
Generation—creating connections and making associations with learned material.
Emotion—optimizing learning with the appropriate level of positive emotion.
Spacing—distributing knowledge over time.
Use your Superpowers.
Professionals with ADHD have unique gifts or “superpowers.” Learning to lead or work with your superpowers can give you an edge over others in your work and guide you to greater satisfaction in your life. But you can only use them to your best advantage if you know what they are, and if something comes easy to you, you likely need to recognize them as a superpower.
At the end of this training, participants will be able to discover strategies for:
- Taking care of attention
- Exercising benevolent leadership
- The whirlwinds of emotions
- Cultivate resilience
- Become better organized
- And much more!
This is a highly interactive and participative workshop.
Supplement Material
A participant’s guide will be provided.
Session Evaluation
The learners will complete an evaluation once the course is finished.
Note: The course outline may be subject to change.
