8. Manager guide: Knowledge and good advice about ADHD and autism

With the GAIS survey, you can uncover scope and needs and learn more about how to create wellbeing for people with different brain profiles. This manager guide offers useful knowledge and concrete advice on how you can create a more supportive and productive working environment for employees with, for example, ADHD or autism. 

Question framework on different brain profiles

We are focusing on neurodiversity because many companies are already facing the task of understanding and supporting people with different brain profiles. And because it will only become more relevant going forward. 

Together with experts, we have formulated a number of questions that you can use as a starting point if you would like to work with neurodiversity in your organisation.  See the question framework HERE.

Knowledge builds understanding

The two handouts at the bottom of the page have been developed by Søren Dige from Working Minds. The two handouts shine a light on two of the most common conditions within neurodiversity - namely ADHD and autism.

NOTE: The two handouts are currently only available in Danish.

They begin by describing typical strengths and skills, but also the challenges that people with ADHD and autism experience in the workplace. This provides a key to understanding employees who either have a diagnosis or traits of one - what is at play, and why they act the way they do. 

Examples and good advice for managers and employees

The two handouts also describe 12 areas where the ADHD brain and the autistic brain, respectively, work a little differently from others. For each of the 12 areas, there is:

• A description of what is at play
• Examples of how it can look in a work context
• Concrete advice on what the manager and the employee, respectively, can do to ensure a good and productive working environment

How you can use it

You can share the materials with managers in the company and use them as a starting point for a dialogue about how you approach and support people with neurodiversity in your organisation.  

The materials have been developed by Søren Dige from Working Minds (contact: sd@workingsminds.dk).

Download the materials