Communicating successfully

- Leading teams with a variety of personalities who each have their own different behaviors means staying flexible and encouraging an agile approach to teamwork. It's helpful to consider how employees with different neurotypes like to work. Whilst there are some commonalities between neurodivergent people, it's important to remember that each person is an individual and shaped by different experiences, like likes and dislikes. Hybrid working where remote collaboration and project management can be done from locations other than the main organization's office is a helpful approach for neurodivergent employees who may work better without distractions that they can't easily ignore, like bright lights, noisy machinery, or IT equipment and multiple audible conversations, which often occur in open plan offices. It's not as simple as just allowing home working. It can also mean giving your neurodivergent team members the freedom to start work later or earlier than others. The same goes for finishing up for the day. For many neurodivergent people, commuting is challenging and stressful more than it is for neurotypical people. And accommodation that allows for flexibility will result in better engaged, more productive, and happier neurodivergent employees.