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The ADHD CEO · June 30 · 17 min

213: ADHD in the Workplace: 5 Things Every Manager Gets Wrong

Full show notes: https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-workplace-5-things-managers-get-wrong-ep-213/ Every day, somewhere in a corporate office, a performance review is being written about an employee who is brilliant, creative, fast, and completely exhausting to manage. The manager has no idea they are describing unaccommodated ADHD. This episode is for two audiences. If you are an employee, you are going to feel seen. If you are a manager or HR professional, you are going to walk away with something you can use before your next performance conversation. The 5 things: 1. Confusing inconsistency with unreliability 2. Treating ADHD symptoms as attitude problems 3. Equating busyness with productivity, and stillness with laziness 4. Designing systems for one kind of brain and calling it fairness 5. Waiting for a diagnosis before offering accommodation Each one has a practical fix. No jargon. No checkbox. Just the conversation that needs to happen inside more organizations. Bring this conversation to your organization: https://sociallyausome.com/alyece_speaking Work With Alyece: https://sociallyausome.com/work_with_alyece FLOW-First Thinking - the book: https://sociallyausome.com/books/flow-first-thinking Tag @socially.ausome on Instagram with a screenshot of you listening. If this episode hit, please leave a review. It's the best compliment you can give. Make it simple. Make it social. Make it Ausome.

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Full show notes: https://sociallyausome.com/post/adhd-workplace-5-things-managers-get-wrong-ep-213/


Every day, somewhere in a corporate office, a performance review is being written about an employee who is brilliant, creative, fast, and completely exhausting to manage. The manager has no idea they are describing unaccommodated ADHD.


This episode is for two audiences. If you are an employee, you are going to feel seen. If you are a manager or HR professional, you are going to walk away with something you can use before your next performance conversation.


The 5 things:

1. Confusing inconsistency with unreliability

2. Treating ADHD symptoms as attitude problems

3. Equating busyness with productivity, and stillness with laziness

4. Designing systems for one kind of brain and calling it fairness

5. Waiting for a diagnosis before offering accommodation


Each one has a practical fix. No jargon. No checkbox. Just the conversation that needs to happen inside more organizations.


Bring this conversation to your organization:

https://sociallyausome.com/alyece_speaking


Work With Alyece:

https://sociallyausome.com/work_with_alyece


FLOW-First Thinking - the book:

https://sociallyausome.com/books/flow-first-thinking


Tag @socially.ausome on Instagram with a screenshot of you listening.

If this episode hit, please leave a review. It's the best compliment you can give.

Make it simple. Make it social. Make it Ausome.

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