Neurodiversity Training for Managers
Manage better. Lead smarter. Support every mind on your team.
Give your managers the tools to support neurodivergent colleagues with confidence, through practical strategies, lived experience insight, and real-world inclusion skills.
Managing with Confidence: Practical Neurodiversity Skills for People Leaders
Neurodivergent people are already in your workplace, and often working harder than anyone just to stay afloat.
Great managers don’t need to be experts in every diagnosis. But they do need to know how to support colleagues with neurodifferences to thrive, not just survive.
This session gives managers the clarity, tools, and confidence to lead neurodivergent team members without overstepping, underreacting, or burning people out.
This Is For Managers Who Want To:
Spot where someone’s needing support (even when they don’t say it)
Make meaningful, individual adjustments, not awkward exceptions
Give feedback without causing shutdown
Build trust with neurodivergent team members
Balance fairness with flexibility, without compromising standards
What You’ll Learn:
Practical, real-world skills to be a better, more neuroinclusive manager.
1. Understanding Neurodiversity at Work
How autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other neurotypes show up in the workplace
Why masking, overload, and executive dysfunction often go unseen
Challenging myths and biases about intelligence, capability, behaviour, and communication
2. How to Spot Barriers Before They Become Problems
Recognising signs of burnout, anxiety, and unmet need
Supporting without pressuring disclosure
Creating day-to-day psychological safety
3. Reasonable Adjustments That Actually Help
Low-cost, high-impact support strategies
Adapting communication, expectations, and feedback styles
Making flexible working work, even in fixed roles or structured teams
Hybrid, remote, and on-site considerations
4. Managing Tasks, Time and Performance Differently
Reframing productivity, outcome over hours
Helping team members plan, prioritise and follow through in ways that suit their own neurotype
Avoiding common traps that demotivate or overwhelm neurodivergent colleagues
Giving direction and feedback without triggering shame or shutdown
5. What to Do If Someone Discloses
How to respond with clarity, care and professionalism
What to say (and what not to say)
Where your responsibility starts, and stops
Learning Outcomes
Confidence to support neurodivergent team members day to day
Clear, simple strategies to adapt how you manage tasks and people
A stronger, more trusting team culture
Tools to handle sensitive conversations without fear of “getting it wrong”
Session Logistics
Duration: 2 hours (including Q&A)
Delivery: Virtual (your platform or ours) or in-person talk or workshop
Tailored: Content available for team leaders, middle managers, and senior supervisors. Always tailored to goals and business focus.
Pair training with line manager support and Q&A.
Training gives managers the ‘what’, ‘why’ and how. Add ongoing line manager support, practical toolkits, and drop-in Q&A sessions to help them turn learning into action and build neuroinclusive leadership day-to-day.
Looking for more training options?
This is just one of the ways we help organisations build truly inclusive workplaces. Explore our full training menu to find the sessions that fit your people and your goals.
Ready to manage with more impact and less stress?
We don’t just teach neuroinclusion, we’ve lived what works, and what doesn’t. Our trainers are neurodivergent professionals who’ve led teams, faced burnout, and built solutions that work for real workplaces.
Let’s explore together.
Start with a conversation. Lead with intention.
At least 65% of managers haven’t received any training in supporting neurodivergent team members (CIPD Neuroinclusion At Work Report 2025)
This leaves neurodivergent staff under-supported and increases the risk of burnout or disengagement.
Here at Neuro Tide, we specialise in equipping your managers with the skills, confidence, and practical tools to meet the needs of neurodivergent colleagues.
Our training builds understanding of communication styles, reasonable adjustments, and strengths-focused leadership. The outcome? Managers who lead confidently, teams who feel seen, and inclusion embedded into your everyday practice.
