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Origami Works Foundation

ELE Group, LLC

Session Focus: Harnessing Neurodiversity: Strategies to Integrate Diverse Minds into Your Talent Strategy.
This session provided valuable insights into neurodiversity in the workplace and strategies for creating an inclusive environment that benefits all employees. A key takeaway was encapsulated in this powerful quote:
<blockquote>"Neurodivergent individuals often struggle in environments designed for neurotypical people. For some, this experience can be genuinely painful." -- <a href="https://www.ele.llc/members/ann-brownell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ann Brownell</a></blockquote>
This highlights the urgent need for workplace adaptations. The session emphasized three crucial points:
<ol>
 	<li>Inclusive practices benefit everyone: Strategies supporting neurodiverse individuals, like providing meeting agendas, allowing processing time, and offering flexible work arrangements, can boost productivity and satisfaction for all employees.</li>
 	<li>Building relationships is crucial: Understanding each team member's individual needs, strengths, and working styles is essential for creating an inclusive environment and maximizing everyone's potential.</li>
 	<li>Shift focus to performance, not conformity: Rather than expecting all employees to work identically, focus on results and allow diverse approaches to problem-solving and task completion. This can foster innovation and lead to better organizational outcomes.</li>
</ol>
By implementing these strategies, organizations can create a more inclusive, productive, and innovative work environment that harnesses the unique strengths of all employees, regardless of their neurological differences.

Read more: <a href="https://www.ele.llc/members/bookshelf/neurodiversity-at-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neurodiversity at Work: Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity with a Neurodiverse Workforce</a> by Amanda Kirby and Theo Smith. Neurodiversity at Work is a practical guide that explains what neurodiversity is, why it's important and what the benefits are.

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Neurodiversity in Talent: Adapting and Hiring for Innovation

Engagement &amp; Culture

richard.busby

Change Management

azizeh.constantinescu

edward.desrosiers

leadership development

talent management

Talent Strategy

denis.sternberg

employee engagement

ana.bedard

ruben.contreras

ann.brownell

peter.hogaboam

delaney.buenzli

Inclusive Workplace

tresha.lovell

workplace culture

organizational culture

HR leadership

workplace innovation

Change Readiness

workplace productivity

Neurodiversity at Work

Skills-First Hiring

Inclusive Talent Development

Corporate Innovation

Workplace Inclusion

Cognitive Diversity

Study IBM Case Study

neurodiversity

An organization's employees are its biggest competitive advantage. Performance gains can be achieved through cost saving, process improvement or technology adoption, but the biggest difference is made by people. This means that recruiting, engaging and retaining the very best talent has never been more important.

Crucially, these employees should be a diverse group of people with different approaches, skills and strengths in problem-solving and driving innovation. As well as focusing on gender, race, age and class, it is critical that businesses also develop a neurodiverse workforce if they are committed to outperforming the competition and achieving sustainable business growth.

Neurodiversity at Work is a practical guide that explains what neurodiversity is, why it's important and what the benefits are. It covers how to attract, recruit and engage neurodiverse talent and provides guidance on how to adapt HR policies, processes and workplaces to ensure that all employees, including the 2 in 10 employees in the UK who are neurodiverse, can reach their full potential.

Neurodiversity at Work is packed full of case studies from leading organizations like Microsoft who are already seeing the productivity, performance and financial benefits of neurodiversity in the workplace. Individuals in these companies are also experiencing benefits in their working environments. Also featured are interviews with prominent figures in the neurodiversity community and people who have successfully adapted their HR processes for neurodiversity, including members of the ND@IBM Program and the Head of People and Culture at Autotrader. With tips, advice, examples and 'how to' actions in every chapter, this is essential reading for every HR professional.

Neurodiversity at Work: Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity with a Neurodiverse Workforce

talent development

business innovation

lauren.marder

brandon.carson

workplace diversity

inclusive work culture

employee productivity

HR management

inclusion strategies

organizational psychology

team performance

ashanti.morgan

I found this a very "digestable" way to understand how we get in our own way as humans and as leaders. It contains straight forward tips for getting out to be your best self. It condenses so much science into simple, usable concepts. Great for coaching.

Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine introduces the concept of PQ—your Positive Intelligence Quotient—which measures the percentage of time your mind serves you rather than sabotages you. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and executive coaching, Chamine identifies ten internal Saboteurs (like the Judge, Controller, and Pleaser) that undermine performance and well-being, and contrasts them with five Sage powers that foster empathy, creativity, and clarity. Through practical tools and mental fitness exercises, the book guides readers to weaken their Saboteurs and strengthen their Sage, ultimately unlocking greater happiness, resilience, and professional success

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New York Times Bestseller! In his popular Stanford University lectures, Shirzad Chamine reveals how to achieve one's true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment. His groundbreaking research exposes ten well-disguised mental Saboteurs. 

Nearly 95 percent of the executives in his Stanford lectures conclude that these Saboteurs cause "significant harm" to achieving their full potential. With Positive Intelligence, you can learn the secret to defeating these internal foes. 

Positive Intelligence (PQ) measures the percentage of time your mind is serving you as opposed to sabotaging you. While your IQ and EQ (emotional intelligence) contribute to your maximum potential, it is your PQ that determines how much of that potential you actually achieve.  The great news is that you can improve your PQ significantly in as little as 21 days. With higher PQ, teams and professionals ranging from leaders to salespeople perform 30-35 percent better on average. Importantly, they also report being far happier and less stressed.   

The breakthrough tools and techniques in this book have been refined over years of coaching hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. Shirzad tells many of their remarkable stories, showing you how you too can take concrete steps to unleash the vast, untapped powers of your mind.

DISCOVER HOW TO: 
<ul>
 	<li>Identify and conquer your top mental Saboteurs. Common Saboteurs include the Judge, Controller, Victim, Avoider, and Pleaser. </li>
 	<li>Measure the Positive Intelligence score (PQ) for yourself or your team--see how close you come to the critical tipping point required for peak performance.</li>
 	<li>Increase PQ dramatically in as little as 21 days.</li>
 	<li>Develop new brain "muscles," and access 5 untapped powers with energizing mental "power games."</li>
 	<li>Apply PQ tools and techniques to increase both performance and fulfillment. </li>
</ul>
Applications include team building, mastering workload, working with "difficult" people, improving work/life balance, reducing stress, and selling and persuading.

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