Your Strengths

Your Career Paths

Learning Styles

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Challenge areas

Profile summary and neurodiversity insights




The Numerical profile is fitting for those that have a natural talent for the manipulation of numbers. This does not automatically imply a mathematics or finance background but is more about the ability to think numerically and apply related logic.

Numerical is among the rarest profiles to unlock as often during the educational period mathematics was taught in a single style that was not always best suited to the associated neurodiverse learning styles. As such, even those who would have enjoyed or naturally acclimatized to manipulating numbers were left to their own devices too early to pick it up.

While numerical ability is not simply about mathematics, the early experiences and underdevelopment experienced by some, restrict other natural talents, such as pattern recognition, from being applied or adapted to numbers.

Those among this neurodiverse community with higher numerical ability have the privilege of being among a rare sub group. These people can apply creativity and computational ability to problems and solutions in equal measure. They are capable of providing both technical and operations services and working independently or as part of a team.

Those with neurodivergence that excel in numerical ability are often fundamentally important employees who either provide a specific service that allows others to do what they do or assists in the achievement of their aims. They can significantly impact critical business decision making. As a rare sub-group within the Neurodiverse spectrums, you have the opportunity to apply your unique brand of creativity and unorthodox approach to a range of work scenarios and jobs that others are unable to achieve.

Your Strengths



Strengths


  • Encouragement and mentoring 96%
  • Explaining systems and processes 92%
  • Statistical foresight 94%
  • Calculation and understanding 98%
  • Calculational competence 94%
  • Pattern recognition 94%
  • Reasoning 94%

Encouragement and mentoring

People living with neurodiversity who have a high numerical ability can often encourage and guide those who are afraid of numbers or calculations to engage and appreciate them. One way that this can occur is by introducing people to activities that they had previously avoided such as finances or computer programming. Do not assume that just because you do not have a background in it does not mean that you are not capable of picking it up. You will try different ways to encourage and implement this.

Explaining systems and processes

Narrative is often one of the main weapons in the arsenal of someone with a learning difference that can make them predisposed to verbal communication, however, with the numerical aptitude thrown in it can be easier and clearer to explain complex systems or relationships to varied audiences.

Reasoning

The ability to handle, interoperate, and apply numerical data and draw accurate and useful conclusions. Work that requires numerical ability in order to succeed but is not purely numbers based. May appreciate or function well in periods of seclusion but also likes being part of a team. Positions in which their input is appreciated and taken on board

Calculation and understanding

The ability to weigh and alter figures accurately. Those with a numerical profile can typically see what numbers and related formulas are for and can therefore sense if a result is likely to be correct or not.

Calculational competence

The ability to learn computational methods and apply them accurately without significant support or revision.

Statistical foresight

May be able to foresee potential issues or opportunity before those around them from examining target or estimate based information.

Pattern recognition

The ability to identify and relate numbers that have a connection or can be compared or combined.

Career Paths




Your Work Preferences


  • Work with statistical or analytical elements

  • Varied work that has many moving parts usually with a pattern or rhythm from an operational standpoint

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    Types of careers that are good a match to your strengths

    • Statistical analytics
    • Forensic accounting
    • Business engineering
    • Data stewardship
    • Operational research
     

    Learning Styles

    You will likely be a visual learner that uses reading and written to aid in learning. With the ability to pick up information effectively in several forms, but perhaps best from written. With the ability to handle numbers , but may not have a financial focus. You can function well as part of a team but may require periods of solitude in order to focus on and produce particular work. Communication is likely best in specific forms for both outgoing and incoming information and anything expressed verbally should be recorded and confirmed in writing.
    Audio

    Audial / Vocal

    Speech in particular will form a large part of how you receive and convey information. You may adapt the style depending on the audience to ensure that the information is appropriately conveyed. You are aware of any limitations of speech or difficulties in conveying through speech and will at times have to rely on additional approaches.

     

     

    Visual

    You may be very visually oriented in your approach to receiving and giving information. This means that even when you are dealing with purely textual information your vision of it is more three-dimensional. You are able to remember text by visualising the page or list, similar to someone with a photographic memory. You may be able to remember facts by their colour, size, or even by their position on the page.

    tactile learner

    Tactile / Kinaesthetic

    You may prefer to touch the components and actively try and test the processes in a practical manner rather than simply being told or shown. Even in a case when you are just dealing with paperwork you may find yourself spreading out across the desk as if you were handling machine parts.



    Read / Write

    Similar to analytical skills, the information that you can understand and utilize does not necessarily have to be in a qualitative or narrative format which gives you an advantage in various situations and can allow you to progress on particular work and projects without significant instruction or oversight.

    Challenge Areas

     
    May struggle with projects with no oversight or feedback in which work value can be determined, or reached/delivered.
    May spot something that they determine is of importance or worth working on but can struggle to convince others of the fact.
     
    May struggle with roles / projects which are specifically and entirely numbers based.
    May not always appreciate esoteric or global thinking i.e. ideas without a clear basis or direction.
    May struggle with projects or work environments with no formulated structure or operational balance. Similarly with repetitive work with no challenge or deviation.

    Support Available

    Workplace needs assessments

    Workplace Needs Assessments provide the opportunity for an employee to express their experiences of work related barriers. A report is then produced to inform and educate Management and HR providing clear recommendations of reasonable adjustments.

    You can book one here

    Interim support

    There are many occasions when a one-off intervention or support arrangement may be required. This can include scribing or supporting during an assessment or interview for specific candidates. It may be necessary to provide a workshop or seminar for colleagues in order to inform them of specific traits or behaviours that may be present and how best to assist the individual to reach their potential.

    You can book one here

    Assistive technology and training

    There is a host of technology specifically designed to handle difficulties such as:

    • Speech-to-text to allow people to express themselves more fluidly and scribe easily.
    • Text-to-speech to assist with reading and comprehension and to aid with retention.
    • Automated spelling correction to assist with speed of scribing and help with proof-reading.
    • Mind Mapping for information to be presented in a more visual and readable manner.
    • Smart devices for the digitising and transcription of notes which can improve organisation and planning.
    • Recording devices to help capture innovative ideas and to assist memory.

    You can book one here

    Personal mentoring for the improvement of fundamental skills.

    We all have strengths and weaknesses. It can be very beneficial to chat things through with a mentor. Personal coaching or mentoring can assist with developing more robust strategies for addressing those less developed skill areas. Roche has a mentoring scheme available to all employees and Occupational Health experts for specific work-place improvements/adjustments. These employees are trained to support individuals with their individual needs, ranging from how to talk to colleagues and line managers through to time management and scheduling

    You can book one here
    Mentor helping neurodiverse individual
    Disclosure and Advice

    Disclosure and self-advocacy

    Disclosing to your HR department can be a key step in order to ensure that you have access to support and services. Even if you did not disclose face-to-face or explain on any initial Occupational Health documentation, it is never too late to inform HR of Neurodiversity just so that they are already aware if it becomes relevant in the future.

    Disclosing to line management is highly recommended because it will allow you to candid in scheduled catch-ups. It will no longer be so out of place to express an issue or as embarrassing to request an unscheduled chat. This approach is just as helpful to line managers because it gives them the opportunity to appropriately address some issues that may otherwise be handled indelicately.

    Disclosing to colleagues often occurs naturally over time but if a critical issue occurs before that point, the disclosure process can feel forced or negative. Even if your specific Neurodiversity is not shared, it can be a great help to inform others of any issues so that they can learn or understand any differences.