Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

The Culture of Disclosure in the Workplace #adhd #neurodivergentsupport #workplace

4 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, the speakers discuss why employees often hesitate to disclose disabilities at work, highlighting that a lack of perceived safety stems from workplace culture. They stress the importance of fostering an open, supportive environment where managers, especially those in upper leadership, actively listen when neurodivergent staff raise concerns about unsafe interactions or management practices.

And that leads into whether people feel comfortable disclosing their disabilities or not. They don't have to, but the reason people don't feel comfortable disclosing their, their disabilities is because they don't feel like it's safe to do that. And that is a culture issue in your place of work.
Always have an open culture. And when people express that, hey, we don't feel safe with XYZ person, if you have neurodivergence coming to you as an upper management person, about their manager or whatever, you need to listen.