Course description
This Neurodiversity Leadership Programme offers professionals an opportunity to unlock their potential as neuro-inclusive leaders and improve team performance by empowering neurodivergent team members to recognise & utilise their creativity, knowledge and diverse skills. It is estimated that 1 in 5 people within the workforce are neurodivergent. Without training, leading neurodivergent employees effectively can be challenging. Neurodivergent people may process information and solve problems in ways that neuro-majority people wouldn’t consider. When given the opportunity and understanding, their unique perspectives can contribute hugely to a business’s success.
The programme is designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and practical strategies needed to embrace and leverage the unique strengths of neurodivergent individuals. This transformative program is your key to unlocking new levels of leadership excellence with insightful models, comprehensive exploration and practical steps to apply neuro-inclusive leadership to benefit you, your diverse individuals, your team and your organisation.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This programme has been designed for Directors, Managers and Senior Stakeholders who want to improve performance through cohesive and motivated teams, by inclusively maximising the potential of neurodivergent colleagues.
This course is for you if you want to:
- Discover techniques for building high-performing teams that embrace neurodiversity
- Foster collaboration, promote empathy, and leverage everybody’s strengths
- Develop understanding of neurodiversity and neurodivergence, including autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia and more.
- Inspire others to tailor communication and management approaches that empower neurodivergent individuals to excel
- Learn tools and strategies to create an environment where all team members thrive.
This course can also be offered In-House.
*Please note that some of the materials and objectives may be subject to change depending on discussions, activities and needs of the cohort upon reflection of delegate responses to the pre-programme questionnaires.*
Outcome / Qualification etc.
On completion of this programme, delegates will:
- Be able to define ‘neurodiversity’, recognise different expressions of neurodivergence, and consider diagnostic understandings & non-diagnostic (lived)
- Understand the characteristics and barriers experienced in the workplace by neurodivergent individuals and learn how to effectively lead, inspire and manage them
- Evaluate changes in leadership style at both a systemic and individual level to better support and empower neurodivergent colleagues
- Explore strategies to create a neuro-inclusive workplace culture to enhance retention and performance of neurodiverse individuals
- Identify potential barriers that neurodivergent individuals may face in the workplace and develop strategies to overcome them
Training Course Content
Session 1
Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Key themes include:
- Define neurodiversity and neuro-diverse leadership
- Understand characteristics often associated with different neurotypes, and potential challenges experienced in workplace and societal contexts
- Highlight the strengths, talents, and unique perspectives that neurodivergent individuals can bring to a team
- Explore the challenges and strengths associated with each profile
- ‘Double empathy’ and the importance of effective communication techniques to foster understanding and reduce misinterpretation from all parties
- Understanding regulation to support effective working and decision-making in your neurodivergent employees
- Explore the concept of an inclusive workplace culture its benefits including cultivating empathy and understanding among team members
- Evaluate strategies for creating an inclusive environment, including promoting diversity, adapting workspaces for different sensory processing profiles, understanding burnout and implementing reasonable accommodations
- Identify strategies to overcome: misconceptions, stereotypes, and biases surrounding disability and neurodivergence (including current controversy surrounding ADHD)
Session 2
Coaching and Developing Neurodivergent Colleagues
Key themes include:
- Evaluate strategies for providing appropriate support, such as mentoring and coaching
- How Coaching is very different for Neurodivergent individuals
- Harnessing the power of neurodivergent thinking
- Using psychometric tools to create better self-awareness
- Building empathy and understanding to support coaching
- Contracting considerations
- Adaptive coaching for neurodivergent individuals
- Role plays to practice GROW, empathy and communication skills
Session 3
Creating a plan for the Organisation
Key themes include:
- Understanding legal frameworks and regulations related to neurodiversity, such as The Equality Act, The Autism Act and other discrimination laws
- Addressing ethical considerations around privacy, disclosure, and confidentiality
- Ensuring compliance and promote a fair and inclusive work environment
- Psychological Safety
- Examine an approach to developing a neuro-inclusive organisational strategy
- In peer groups, develop a real-world organisational strategy to create a Neurodiverse culture in your organisation
Course delivery details
Delivery Options:
Virtual Classroom
We strive to create a positive and lasting impact through the delivery of our courses, which is why all our sessions are structured around taught theory, interactivity and shared experiences from the real world. Our online training courses are designed to create the optimum learning experience for the virtual environment. Our training is highly interactive; our tutors make regular use of whiteboard, annotate, polls and other types of interactive software to enhance the learning experience.
Face to Face:
At In Professional Development, we ensure that your learning environment is one where you can get the most out of your study. The benefits of learning in a face to face environment means you have the opportunity to connect with, problem-solve, and network with other delegates from a wide range of backgrounds. In Professional Development deliver the most up to date and relevant solutions, to everyday real world problems for the working professionals.
In House Team Training
Our in-house service delivers tailored training solutions to assist businesses in achieving their goals. Unlike our open courses, our in-house offering provides completely customisable content that is built with your guidance to facilitate anything from large transformational projects to individual learner journeys.
Our dedicated bespoke account management team will work with you to ensure that the solution you and your business choose allows for the optimal learning experience.
Your In-House Training Options
- Off-the-shelf, existing programmes delivered privately for you and your team
- Part-tailored solutions using various elements of our existing programmes to create a unique programme aligned to your organisational needs
- Bespoke built programmes, created and designed entirely to meet your specific requirements and customised to your business’ goals
Why choose In Professional Development
Delivered training to over 10,000 organisations
92% of delegates rate our courses as 5 star
Created over 2,500 CMI registrations
Reviews
Average rating 5
Excellent trainer. She was authentic, friendly and knowledgeable. She gently challenged us to reframe our biases and beliefs without being judgemental. She reiterated key points...
Trainer was excellent, so knowledgeable and engaging she did a brilliant job of facilitating a lot of interesting conversations.
Expenses
- Virtual Classroom: £1,600+VAT
- Face to Face: £1900+VAT
- In-House Training; Price on Enquiry
Continuing Studies
CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice
Following completion of the Leading Neurodiversity in the Workplace Programme, learners can opt to continue their studies by completing a CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice. This qualification is designed for practising middle managers and leaders at operations, division, departmental or specialist level, who are typically accountable to a senior manager or business owner.
Learners are required to complete one 4,000-4,500 word written assignment. Units to be completed include:
- 702: Leading and Developing People to Optimise Performance
Benefits of completing the qualification include:
For learners:
- Enables learners to develop the professionalism to deliver impact and behave ethically.
- Enables learners to develop an in-depth understanding of how to effectively lead and develop people.
- Provides the opportunity to demonstrate a commitment to continual learning and development.
- Accredited management and leadership qualification and certificate on completion.
For organisations:
- Learners will build on their strategic management and leadership skills to focus on the requirements of embedding the organisation’s strategy.
- Provides skills and behaviours to drive core business activities.
- Delivers skills to optimise organisational performance through the effective leadership and development of people.
Learners also receive:
- Targeted tutorials run by our CMI-qualified tutors, to help learners complete the assignment writing phase.
- Dedicated support from the Quality Assurance Team here at In Professional Development, including regular CMI learner drop-in sessions.
- Access to a wealth of CMI online learning resources through their Management Direct website.
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In Professional Development are a professional training provider offering a wide range of professional development courses, on an accredited or non-accredited basis. Our course portfolio ranges from 1 to 5-day courses. We work with a range of partners to ensure...
The course on Leading Neurodiversity in the Workplace was excellent. I learned so much from the facilitator and also the other members of the group. It was the perfect balance o...