Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop
A hands-on workshop that builds on the Aware webinar to embed lasting change around neurodiversity in your team. Managers leave able to confidently articulate their organisation’s commitment to an inclusive workplace, whatever sector they work in.
Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop
This neurodiversity training for managers goes beyond theory. It gives managers practical tools for effective management, clearer communication, reducing team conflict and creating more inclusive working environments.
Delivered by Changing Minds Training, the workshop is practical, supportive and grounded in real workplace experiences. It helps managers feel more confident supporting neurodivergent colleagues while also recognising the value of respect, reasonable adjustments and kind, consistent management.
What is the Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop?
The Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop is a hands-on training course that helps managers understand neurodiversity in the workplace and apply that understanding in everyday management situations.
Neurodivergent colleagues may experience work, communication, expectations, sensory environments and team dynamics differently. Managers can play an important role in reducing barriers, supporting confidence and creating working environments where people are better able to contribute.
This workshop helps managers explore practical ways to support neurodivergent staff, including how to observe behaviour without unconscious bias, understand hidden workplace rules and use the Triangle of Support as a respectful framework for managing neurodivergent individuals in line with the Equality Act.
The course does not ask managers to become clinicians or experts. Instead, it helps them build awareness, use clearer communication, respond with curiosity rather than judgement and take practical steps towards better inclusion.
The Neurodiversity: Aware Webinar is a mandatory prerequisite for this workshop, helping learners arrive with a shared foundation in key terminology, common neurodivergent conditions and the positive impact of reasonable adjustments.
Who Is This Course For?
This course goes beyond theory to give practical tools for effective management and reducing team conflict. This course suitable across a wide range of sectors and settings, including:
The workshop is particularly useful for managers who want practical tools for supporting neurodivergent team members more effectively.
It may also be helpful for organisations that want to reduce misunderstanding, improve communication and give managers a clearer, kinder and more consistent approach to neurodiversity at work.
What Will Learners Gain From The Course?
By the end of the Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop, learners will have developed a stronger understanding of neurodiversity and how to support neurodivergent colleagues in practical management situations.
Learners will explore how to:
- Recap of neurodiversity terminology and the main conditions
- Strengths common to each condition, and how they may present at work
- Executive functioning: a basic understanding, its role in daily life, and a hands-on activity to experience an executive functioning challenge
- Why neurodiverse inclusion matters to diversity and inclusion work
- Clear communication, including an activity on how complex communication can be
- Sensory overload, and how meltdowns and shutdowns occur and affect people
- School trauma and its impact on learning new skills
- Ways to build a more inclusive, sensory-safe working environment
- How anxiety can be triggered by external factors, and how to recognise and regulate it in yourself and others
- Practical tools for a mental health and wellbeing toolbox to support yourself and others in crisis
- Understanding all behaviour as communication – responding with support, not judgment
- Why communication breakdowns are rarely one-sided, and how to prevent low morale
- Supporting self-identified neurodivergent colleagues, from both a kindness and legal perspective
- The positive impact of reasonable adjustments, and where to start implementing them
- Reviewing how managers currently approach neurodiversity
- Observing behaviour without unconscious bias
- The impact of hidden workplace rules on productivity and performance
- The Triangle of Support: a framework for managing neurodivergent individuals with respect and kindness, in line with the Equality Act
The workshop is designed to help managers move from awareness into action. It gives learners space to reflect on their own management style, consider where barriers may exist and explore practical ways to support colleagues more effectively.
The Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop is delivered over one full day.
The course includes extensive hands-on learning, helping managers apply their understanding to realistic workplace situations.
The workshop is practical and interactive, with space for reflection, group discussion and activities that help managers understand neurodivergent experiences more clearly.
Changing Minds Training creates a warm and respectful learning space where managers can ask questions, explore uncertainty and build confidence without judgement. The focus is on practical understanding, better communication and thoughtful management.
What does the workshop cover?
The Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop explores the key areas managers need when supporting neurodivergent colleagues at work.
Understanding neurodiversity
Learners begin by recapping key neurodiversity terminology and the main neurodivergent conditions.
This helps managers develop a shared language and a clearer understanding of how different neurodivergent profiles may show up in workplace settings.
The workshop also explores strengths commonly associated with different conditions, helping managers move away from deficit-based thinking and recognise the value neurodivergent colleagues can bring to a team.
Executive functioning
Managers explore executive functioning and its role in daily life.
This includes how executive functioning can affect planning, organisation, prioritising, time management, working memory, emotional regulation and task completion.
A hands-on activity helps learners experience an executive functioning challenge, supporting greater empathy and understanding.
Inclusion and workplace culture
The workshop explores why neurodiversity inclusion matters within wider diversity and inclusion work.
Managers consider how workplace systems, expectations and assumptions can create barriers for neurodivergent staff. They also explore how hidden workplace rules can affect productivity and performance.
This helps managers reflect on what is expected, what is communicated clearly and what may be assumed without being explained.
Communication
Clear communication is a core part of effective neuroinclusive management.
Learners explore how complex communication can be and why communication breakdowns are rarely one-sided. This encourages managers to think carefully about instructions, feedback, expectations, meetings and team conversations.
The focus is on reducing uncertainty, preventing low morale and helping teams communicate more clearly.
Sensory overload and sensory-safe environments
The workshop explores sensory overload and how meltdowns and shutdowns can happen and affect people.
Managers consider ways to build more inclusive, sensory-safe working environments, including practical changes that may reduce unnecessary stress or overwhelm.
Anxiety and wellbeing
Learners explore how anxiety can be triggered by external factors and how to recognise and regulate it in themselves and others.
The workshop also introduces practical tools for a mental health and wellbeing toolbox, supporting managers to respond with care when someone may be distressed or struggling.
Behaviour as communication
Managers are encouraged to understand behaviour as communication.
This helps shift the focus away from judgement and towards curiosity, support and problem-solving. Rather than asking what is wrong with someone, managers are supported to consider what may be happening, what barriers may exist and what support could help.
Reasonable adjustments
The workshop explores the positive impact of reasonable adjustments and where to start implementing them.
Managers consider how adjustments can support confidence, productivity and wellbeing, and how to approach conversations with respect and kindness.
Managing with respect and kindness
A key part of the workshop is the Triangle of Support, a framework for managing neurodivergent individuals with respect and kindness, in line with the Equality Act.
This gives managers a practical structure to support clearer, fairer and more compassionate management.
What Will Learners Receive?
Learners will receive a practical full-day workshop that helps them build the confidence and skills to manage neurodivergent colleagues more effectively.
The provided course breakdown does not confirm specific takeaways such as a workbook, certificate or post-course resources for this workshop. If you would like to confirm what materials are included for your chosen booking, please get in touch with Changing Minds Training.
Why Choose Changing Minds Training?
Changing Minds Training delivers accredited mental health, suicide prevention and wellbeing training built around compassion, lived experience and practical skills.
Based in Redhill, Surrey and delivering training nationwide, we support organisations, individuals and community groups to build confidence around mental health, wellbeing and inclusion.
We understand that managers can sometimes feel unsure how to support neurodivergent colleagues well. They may worry about saying the wrong thing, making assumptions, missing important needs or not knowing where reasonable adjustments should begin.
This workshop helps managers build confidence in a clear, practical and compassionate way.
Our approach is:
- Warm, human and reassuring
- Practical and confidence-building
- Inclusive and accessible
- Focused on real workplace experiences
- Designed to support better management conversations
- Clear about communication, sensory needs and reasonable adjustments
- Supportive of respectful, kind and consistent leadership
- Suitable for corporate, clinical, care and social care settings
The aim is not to make managers experts in one day. Instead, they leave with a clearer understanding of neurodiversity, more confidence in supportive conversations and practical tools they can apply in their teams.
Public and private Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop options
Public Courses
Public courses may be suitable for individual managers or small groups who want to develop practical confidence in supporting neurodivergent staff.
Private Courses
Private courses are delivered for one organisation. This can be a helpful option if you want to train a group of managers together and create a shared approach to neurodiversity inclusion across your workplace, service or team.
The Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop is available for groups of up to 16 learners.
Individual Rate
Group Rate
Is this the right course for your team?
The Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop is a strong option if you want managers to feel more confident supporting neurodivergent colleagues in everyday workplace situations.
It may be particularly useful if you want to:
- Support line managers and team leaders managing neurodivergent staff
- Move beyond awareness into practical management tools
- Improve communication between managers and team members
- Reduce misunderstanding, conflict and low morale
- Help managers understand sensory needs and executive functioning
- Review how managers currently approach neurodiversity
- Support reasonable adjustments with greater confidence
- Build more inclusive, respectful and productive teams
- Strengthen your wider wellbeing, inclusion or diversity strategy
This workshop works well after the Neurodiversity: Aware Webinar and can form part of a wider neurodiversity training pathway.
If you are unsure whether the Managers Workshop is the right fit, Changing Minds Training can help you compare options and choose the most suitable training for your team.
Enquire about the Neurodiversity: Managers Workshop
If you are looking for practical neurodiversity training for managers, we would be happy to help.
Get in touch to discuss public course options, private delivery or the most suitable neurodiversity training pathway for your workplace.
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