Your Strengths

Your Career Paths

Learning Styles

Support Available

Challenge areas

Profile summary and neurodiversity insights




The communication profile implies an aptitude for work and activities that require information to be developed and passed on in a specific way. As well as possessing the skills of understanding and imparting information clearly and concisely, it may be that your ability reaches as far as being able to persuade others to agree.

While it is not uncommon for those within the associated neurodiverse community to be strong at either spoken or written communication, it is much rarer to enjoy and excel at both.

Empathy and patience can be common traits within neurodiversity but for those who can excel at written and spoken communications to also have these traits can make them particularly well suited to projects and work that range from learning and development, through support roles and into management as well.

Your Strengths



Strengths


    • Concise and accurate96%
    • Adaptable and appropriate92%
    • Creative and immersive94%
    • Encouraging and convincing98%
    • Empathetic and understanding94%

Adaptable and appropriate

May be able to utilise different styles of format of delivery dependent on and relevant to the nature of the information or type of audience.

Creative and immersive

May have the capacity to tell engaging stories or revive dry material with the use of combined approaches such as examples, stories, metaphors, and comparisons. Can also most likely switch between emphasis and understatement as required.

Empathetic and understanding

It may be that in addition to being able to feel for a person you may be able to get a sense of what they need and how to present that to them or impart it to others on their behalf. This skill is particularly advantageous as it bridges a gap that can otherwise leave people dissatisfied or unengaged.

Concise and accurate

May have the ability to take a complicated concept or large quantity of information and break it down into a manageable and understandable format or summary without significant effort.

Encouraging and convincing

May possess the ability to inspire others or engage and develop their interest which in turn can lead them in directions they would not have gone or aid them in drawing conclusions they would not have considered.

Career Paths

Your Work Preferences


  • A lot of detail at the beginning of a new assignment that gets explained in order to avoid any breaks in operational efficiency later

  • Although it may not be your top priority in terms of approach having a strong initial grasp of the policy and priority from the off set will be important to you

  • Even if you are working in a shared space you will want to institute a method of keeping your engagements separate from other peoples

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    Types of careers that are good a match to your strengths

    • Journalism / Copywriter
    • Engagement specialist
    • Communications
    • Relationship Management
    • Learning and Development
    • Human Resources
    • Public Relations/Affairs
     

    Learning Styles

    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.

    Challenge Areas

    If you take a person specific approach than you may find it hard to remain focused during support e.g. May become overly empathic and end up offering more than can be provided e.g. reassurances of a positive resolution.
    If your approach is strictly detail oriented i.e. identify the issue and make steps towards a resolution, then you may not react to or know how to handle a distressed service user.
    Although navigating out-process and multi stake-holder situations may be second nature, there will be times when the decision made or resolution reached is not satisfying. This can also occur if you viewed the process to achieve the outcome as over antiquated.
     
    Administrational consistency is vital to any communications related role however at times it may be that the qualitative elements e.g. handling service. users/clients/customers seem to take over and the quantitative requirements go under attended e.g. real-time logging, escalations, numerical targets.
    Overall a balance is particularly important as a communicator and it is important to be honest with yourself if that balance is off either from the administrational side or the interpersonal side so that re calibration can be attempted at the earliest opportunity.
     

    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.