Coaching Benefits: The Before and After of a Neurodiversity Coaching Client
**Client name and identifying details have been anonymised for confidentiality.**
Needing to learn some new strategies for work?
Want a thinking partner to deepen your self-awareness and self-management?
When you’re looking for balance, have not achieved it on your own and need an accountability partner to blow the whistle on unhelpful coping strategies…
then you’ll benefit from some neurodiversity coaching.
Neurodiversity Coaching: Before and After
For clients considering workplace strategy coaching, one of the most important questions is often: what does coaching actually involve, and what difference can it make?
The experience of one coachee, Gavin*, provides a useful example of how personalised neurodiversity coaching can support someone through challenges at work and at home.
Gavin Before Coaching
Manager in public sector organisation
ADHD/autism/Tics – waiting for assessment
Burnout cycle
Difficulties with worklife balance
Lack of awareness around what’s good working practice
Communication challenges with co-parenting teenage son with ASC/Tourette’s
Little knowledge of neurodiversity: challenges and strengths
Not able to share neurodivergence with others
Gavin After Coaching
Context on what difference means (without diagnosis)
Importance of sharing to help manage himself and others’ expectations
Strategies for breaks managing himself through the working day
Learning about executive function and neurodivergence
Effective communication strategies for improving teamwork and co-parenting
Appreciation of the strengths of neurodivergence
Learning how to disclose neurodivergence with confidence
What Difference Can Neurodiversity Coaching Make?
I’ve been meaning to do this type of piece for a long time.
Because clients starting workplace strategy coaching want to know what coaching involves and what’s the impact. Executive clients prospecting for the right fit coach also want evidence of likely ROI.
So those pics tell pretty much the whole story.
They may not always be translatable to figures for the bottom line and quantitative data, but they are still results.
With a capital R.
If you're considering neurodiversity coaching and want to understand what personalised support could look like for you, get in touch with Neurodiversity Specialists.
Visit https://www.neurodiversity-specialists.co.uk/ or speak to our team on 020 3808 0806.
The Impact of Coaching
It’s been a really emotional time for Gavin in coaching sessions at times.
The information and reflections we’ve been covering in our conversations have helped shed a very different light on his life because he’s been able to think about what’s been going on and what needs to change.
With coaching support, accountability and challenge, he has been able to learn from the past, change his present and plan the future.
We’ve just recently passed the halfway point in the programme and he was starting to make noises as though he’d learned all that he needed to…
but now redundancies are looming on the horizon, so we’re spacing the remaining sessions to intervals that will help him have some continuity in the face of transition giving him space to talk through and deal with the changes with me as a thinking partner.
Hear It From Gavin Himself
‘It’s been personalised for me. I was asked what do you want to get out of this? I mean, I’ve done other stuff in the past but nothing personal; all very generic. We started with ‘What are your needs and what do you need to get out of it and have been working through it. I wanted practical solutions that I wanted to take away cos so much stuff that I listen to that is fuzzy and generalised in my head and I can’t process it.
But here… are things that I can practically implement and it’s been amazing… My coach has been amazing – fantastic, super open, approachable, kind. She kind of reads my mind and understands where I’m at and can adapt to my needs on that day, like if something’s kicked off.
My coach has changed my life… I can’t thank her enough.’
And What Am I Doing as His Coach to Make It Work?
Listening; first, last and always:
For finding out about his strengths so that we can use those as resources throughout.
For asking questions to get a full picture of his experiences.
For summarising what he is trying to say to check for my understanding.
For asking him for strategies that have worked before, and for instances when he’s noticed things work well.
For challenging when I feel that some of his thinking and conclusions were not serving him in getting better outcomes.
Good coaches listen to understand.
They don’t listen because they are waiting for their next chance to talk.
Looking for a coaching approach that starts with listening?
Neurodiversity coaching is not about applying a generic set of strategies to everyone. It's about understanding the individual, identifying what works for them and creating practical approaches that can be used in everyday life.
If you're wondering whether coaching could help you or someone within your organisation, we're always happy to have a conversation.
Call us on 020 3808 0806 or email info@neurodiversity-specialists.co.uk.
Good Coaches Can Be Hard to Find
Good coaches can be hard to find.
But, if you’re wondering about whether to take the step, to invest in you, your work, or your personal life, get in touch.
It’s not only you that’ll benefit – it’ll also be the people you live with and the places where you work, rest and play.
Believe us, tomorrow you will thank the you in coaching today.
Could Neurodiversity Coaching Help You?
Gavin's experience is just one example of what personalised coaching can achieve.
The right coaching relationship can provide a space to reflect, understand yourself better, develop practical strategies, challenge unhelpful thinking and build confidence in managing both work and personal life.
If you're considering neurodiversity coaching, workplace strategy coaching or specialist support, we'd love to hear from you.
Start the Conversation
Explore our website:https://www.neurodiversity-specialists.co.uk/
Call our team:020 3808 0806
You don't need to know exactly what you need before you contact us. We're happy to have an informal conversation and explore whether coaching could be the right fit for you.
Client name and identifying details have been anonymised for confidentiality.
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