In this podcast, we are focusing on training neuro-diverse employees that have different challenges with executive function regulation. This is affecting our workplace because research shows that a large population of our current and future workforce has challenges with executive functions. College graduates are reporting a disability at a rate of nearly 20 percent, with ADHD disabilitiy forming part of these conditions.
Employees with neurodiversity struggle with different challenges including time management, emotional regulations, procrastination, organization, and motivation. This can not only affect their performance but also lead to anxiety and depression, leaving them frustrated with little motivation.
Just as weaknesses can pose challenges and derail ambitions of long-term employment, strengths may be developed through their disability and can have a positive effect and outcome. Employees with these challenges have a laser-like focus, attention span, and drive like no other. With the right strategies, tools, and mentoring, they can be the shining star of a company. Often, they are just the very person capable of turning a failing business around with fresh ideas, well-thought-out visions, and the drive to make it happen!
Companies can take advantage of this by offering apprenticeships, mentoring, and training programs to retain all of their employees, even those with executive function challenges, and empower them to perform with the company’s best interests in mind.
A sound employee apprenticeship or intern mentoring program can foster the positive attributes of all employees by establishing a best practice training plan with boundaries, routines, and clear expectations with high accountability. It will also foster a work environment that promotes community and self-empowerment. The result is a win-win for company productivity, lowering overall training costs and developing strong skillsets for future employees.
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Michelle Raz, is a career specialist & coach, owner of Razcoaching.com, author of Happiness+Passion+Purpose and Co-founder of Thrivister.com, an academic coaching company for high school and college students. As a Board-Certified Coach, she uses her expertise with executive functioning challenges to help people find their purpose and success in the workplace through the lens of ADHD. She has been contributing her knowledge and expertise in this field since 2010.
In this episode Academic Coach Michelle Raz shares a story of an ADHD student who came close to failing out of college, Through grit and hard work, she managed to pull it together and pass her classes. It is a true story of how one student was on the verge of shutting down, but through coaching and self-determination, she pushed through.
Do you ever feel like you need to survive every day? Do you sometimes think of just getting through a day?
If you have ADHD, it can be easy to feel this way daily. Putting too much pressure on yourself can cause trouble to organize things, create mistakes, lack focus, unfinished tasks, and emotional turmoil. So instead of getting yourself into survival mode, try thriving.
Thriving and surviving are often being mistaken as the same words. These two words are the total opposite of each other. Surviving is stressing yourself out on how to get through the day. Thriving is doing things according to plan, with the flow, and with a positive outlook. Be the person you want to be without pressuring yourself, allow yourself to grow and make progress, and the most important thing is to always don a happy heart. Thriving is a process of planning for the future, being the best version of yourself, creating experiences, and doing the most significant work that you should do.
Having ADHD can sometimes keep you away from the will to live life fully, but you can always make a change. You just have to start.
Thrive More with ADHD
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Michelle Raz is the founder of Raz Coaching & Thrivister and specializes in helping people thrive with executive function challenges. Read more at www.razcoaching.com OR www.thrivister.com She is also the author of the book Happiness+Passion+Purpose.
We are in some really challenging times. The way we go about our life is changing minute by minute.
Are you finding yourself in new roles?
You might have just become a teacher or an academic coach and a home health care provider. Things that you didn’t typically think that would be in your repertoire but now are forced upon you by these new changes. the 5 remote learning survival tips can help.
You might be feeling overwhelmed, confused and frustrated.
I want to ease some of that frustration and fear of what you are now being strapped with. If you are having to help a college student or a public school student at home, I will be able to offer you some advice in this episode of The ADHD Strategist.
I hope that these tips helped you.
Advocate for yourself
Resources: make sure you’ve got them in place
Goals: Set them each week
Read the syllabus: make sure you understand what the instructors want (rubric)
Take charge of your time and get organized with accountability.
If you do these five things, you will set yourself up during these challenging times for success. You might just help your student become an independent learner by doing the work on his or her own.
Once you follow this for a few weeks, they will get into a routine and it will begin to flow.
It’s going to be a different home environment but you can get into this flow and be successful. This is a time when we really need to embrace our duties. Things are changing day by day but you can put into place a routine at home that your students can adjust to quickly.
Dark Side of Remote Learning for Students with Disabilities
COVID 19 has caused a pandemic that brought a lot of changes to our way of living. One of the most affected areas is education, especially for students with disabilities. The pandemic has resulted in schools shut all across the world and as a result, education has changed drastically with the rise of remote learning where lectures will take place remotely on digital platforms.
While schools are having a transition from traditional face to face classes to online education, there are several issues that must be given attention to. A big portion of that is the disadvantages of remote learning to students with ADHD.
The following are the potential Dark side of remote learning. Barriers to education through remote-learning practices that students with disabilities may encounter along the process discussed in this podcast episode:
Need for one on one instructional support challenges.
Behavior Modification and intervention needs.
Mental Health issues: Depression, Anxiety, and Isolation.
Students with disabilities are at higher risk due to the needs and impacts for remote learning mentioned above. Amid the challenges and risks, the most important thing to keep in mind is the education and safety of students and teachers must be balanced. Education is important but enjoying and learning through the process is what makes it more valuable.
Can you think of other challenges that might get in the way during remote learning sessions?
College time may be fun and exciting. But it also has a fair share of challenges especially now that Covid-19 has affected everything including education
Becoming a college freshman is a big step to young adulthood. It is the most awaited time for students to finally have their freedom, freedom from home, freedom from their parents’ rules, and freedom from high school. Entering college is a new era of making friends and opening up themselves to the excitement and fear that goes along with it.
Adapting to the new normal things has never been easy. Let’s discuss some of the possible challenges that you may encounter along your college journey. What possible solutions can you do to still create memories?
Now that the COVID 19 has turned the world upside down and schools have transitioned to online learning, you might feel that you’re still stuck to where you are before, you still live in the same house as your parents and you still have to follow their rules. You can think of it that way, but you can make it the best time to learn more about what you can improve and develop in yourself. Leaving home can be pretty exciting but being ready before leaving is another level.
Can you cite other examples of Covid and College Challenges you might encounter in your first year as college students that are not listed above? I’m here to listen, Ask Raz! Leave me a message. Just click the link: https://www.razcoaching.com/ask_raz/ or visit my instagram www.instagram.com/razcoaching
