Neurodiversity for Line Managers – 90 min Webinar

Confidence in the conversations that count. For every people manager.

Most managers avoid neurodiversity conversations for one reason: they are afraid of saying the wrong thing. So the disclosure gets a nervous nod, the adjustment request drifts, the feedback gets saved up for the appraisal, and the employee learns that the safest option is silence.

This webinar gives line managers the confidence and the concrete words for the conversations that count: disclosure, adjustments, feedback, and holding standards warmly when things are genuinely hard.

Duration: 1.5 hours (60 minutes training, 30 minutes Q&A)

Format: Virtual (unless otherwise arranged)

Price: £500 (no VAT). For audiences over 40, contact us for pricing.

Scheduling: UK time; lunchtime and twilight sessions available

The challenge

Neurodiversity outcomes are decided in 1:1s, meeting invites and feedback conversations, which means they are decided by line managers, not policies. Yet managers are the group least likely to have been trained, and manager handling is the thread running through the sharp rise in neurodiversity-related tribunal claims.

The fix is not clinical knowledge. Managers don’t need to diagnose anyone, and shouldn’t. They need a small set of habits and scripts that lower threat without lowering a single expectation, and that work whether or not anyone on the team has disclosed.

What you’ll learn

Why managers go quiet, and what the silence costs. The confidence gap named honestly, and why avoidance is the risky option, not the safe one.
The foundations that matter. Spiky profiles, masking, and why ambiguity is the enemy: the minimum understanding a manager actually needs.
The disclosure conversation. A five-step script: thank, ask, agree, record, follow through, and the failure modes to avoid.
Feedback and the day to day. Language swaps and six habits that make every conversation easier, for every direct report.
The adjustments conversation. Small, by need not diagnosis, recorded once and honoured everywhere.
Holding standards, warmly. Performance, conflict and knowing when to escalate: neuro-affirmative management with the bar intact.

Who this training is for

Line managers at every level, from first-time team leads to senior leadership. Designed to roll out across whole management populations, and to pair with Feedback Without Fear and Getting Adjustments Right.

All of our training is neuro-affirmative, practical, and delivered by neurodivergent trainers with lived experience. And because autistic girls network is a charity, your training fees directly fund free support for families of neurodivergent young people.

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