For Employees

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If you feel that Aspiedent can support you in your current employment please get in touch for an initial discovery conversation.

You want people to understand you, but how much do you understand yourself?

Not being understood by others and/or not fully understanding yourself can make your work environment very difficult. Perhaps you feel like you are judged by the way you communicate or respond, or perhaps you misunderstand people without even realising it, which causes confusing conflict. Maybe you feel discriminated against by the way you are treated or when applying for a promotion or during the performance appraisal processes.

Imagine if your employers were equipped to support you in a way that works for you. Removing your barriers to success and helping you to become much more productive.

We take the time to understand how you tick. Whether it is Autism, ADHD or Dyspraxia etc, causing issues at work, it is worth getting in touch to see if we can help with your situation.

Note that Aspiedent is an impartial service and we do not take sides. Instead, we analyse what is causing the problems and recommend solutions. Often you have a part to play in implementing the solutions.

Our Integrative Cognitive Profiling framework is key to this process. The first stage is alway to start with a workplace assessment and then too see if any of our other services would help you. There is no need for you to have any diagnosis for this and we don't have to talk about any possible diagnoses if you don't want us to.

Detailed Understanding

A more detailed understanding of how you tick and why you are finding your working environment difficult, so that you can ask for the right support in the workplace. If you have one or more diagnoses, we explain these to you in more depth.

Strengths and Weaknesses

An understanding of both your strengths and weaknesses and how everything interacts to create the unique person that is you, will help you better understand what you bring to the workplace. This can help you plan your career.

Employed!

The right working environment and an understanding of what specific support you need, will help you to thrive at work and ultimately ensure you keep your job! If it turns out you are not a good fit for your current role, it will help you understand what will suit you.

Social Chit Chat

An understanding of the purpose (and pleasures) of social chit chat can potentially reduce misinterpretations and misunderstandings, improve understanding of others and help you develop friendships.

Coping Strategies

Recognising your underlying issues means we can help you develop effective coping strategies to help you to be successful or even excel at what you do.

Job Role

Knowing your strengths and weaknesses supports recognition of what you are good at. This can improve job satisfaction and provide opportunity for more varied content in your job role.

Understood

You will be better understood by your managers and colleagues and therefore better able to build good working relationships.

Other People

You will gain a better understanding of other people as your understanding of cognitive diversity, and how this impacts on communication, increases.

Communication

A better understanding of cognitive diversity and how this impacts on communication will result in improved interactions with managers, colleagues - and often your family.

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Training and Mentoring

A series of 8 workshops designed to help autistic individuals to better understand themselves, their autism and the world around them. The aim is to enable participants to problem solve their own strategies from understanding their specific version of autism. This will enable participants to form coping strategies that lead to better outcomes and less anxiety.

Created and delivered by an Dr Elizabeth Guest (BSc, PhD, PGCHE) who is autistic herself, the course consists of 8 x 1.5 hour online sessions in a group of up to 8 people covering the following topics:
- What social chit chat is all about and why people enjoy it
- Sensory issues
- Processing issues
- Different ways of thinking and learning
- Executive Functioning
- Using strengths to overcome weaknesses
- Intelligence and autism (spoiler: IQ tests are often unreliable for autism)
- Barriers to social interaction and strategies
- Exposure Anxiety
- The Uncanny Valley and the World Reject Hole
- Reasonable adjustments
- Constructive criticism
- Networking made possible
Feedback from previous participants has included the following:
- Better understanding of themselves
- Insight into how non-autistic people communicate
- Insight into “Social Chit Chat” and why most people enjoy it.
- Understanding their own strengths and difficulties
- Understanding strengths and difficulties in employment
- Learn how to use strengths to compensate for weaknesses
- Enable independent problem solving
Both individual and corporate packages available.

Contact j.lovatt@aspiedent.com to sign up today.
Employment can be extremely challenging for individuals with autism, ADHD and other related conditions and it is very difficult to find people within the business who fully understand your challenges and how to help you succeed in your employment.

The Integrative Cognitive Diversity Framework is designed to understand the unique cognitive makeup of the individual, this explains WHY you are struggling without needing to reference any diagnosis. Although if you would like us to describe the underlying issues behind your particular condition, we an do.

Through identifying WHY an individual’s difficulties occur, it enables us to be much more precise in understanding how to overcome challenges using both targeted adjustments and your own individual strengths that may not be recognised or being used in the best possible way.

This means Aspiedent can tailor training and coaching around you.

Areas in which Aspiedent can support you include:
- Understanding social interaction and communication
- Leadership
- Identifying strengths and overcoming weaknesses
- Managing Sensory Issues
- Assertiveness
- Career Development and interviewing skills
- Accessing Continued Professional Development

Workplace Assessment

Our Workplace Assessments are designed to help managers and staff in the workplace understand each other better and/or resolve their differences. A workplace assessment makes it much more likely that an employee will keep their job.

The key differences in our approach are:

We are able to analyse beyond the symptoms and identify the underlying issues that cause them.
We analyse the interactions between the various underlying issues.
We are just as interested in strengths as we are in weaknesses because we build a complete picture of the cognitive make-up of an individual.

Similar symptoms can be caused by different underlying issues and this often leads to ineffective recommended reasonable adjustments. An in depth analysis of your cognitive make up is required to get to the bottom of the issues, that you are experiencing. Aspiedent’s reasonable adjustments are tailored to your specific difficulties and not to symptoms nor to any diagnosis, if there is one.

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A workplace assessment is often life-changing because you understand yourself better and how you tick differently from those around you. This can be further explored via 1-1 training and mentoring sessions.

During a workplace assessment the aim will be to develop a deep understanding of the following:

Any sensory issues
How you think and learn
How you process information
Interests along with focus and attention
How you tick emotionally
Executive functioning

We don’t just write about each of these categories, we also work out what is causing what and how they interact with each other. Sometimes the interactions create excellence and sometimes they create problems. Like everyone else, you have strengths and weaknesses and the combination makes you the unique person you are.

By taking this in depth approach, Aspiedent provides a report that will not only explain what is happening and recommend reasonable adjustments but will also tell you ‘WHY’ issues are occurring and ‘WHY’ the reasonable adjustments will work.

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