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Tips for Managing ADD Employees (below)

Quotes from famous people who may have had ADD

Job Seeking Tips: Selling Yourself in 90 Seconds or Less

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Tips for Managing ADD Employees

Employees with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) are often high energy, well educated, bright, creative, intuitive, sensitive, talkative and engaging people who do well in sales and other professions requiring good networking, empathizing and influencing skills. They can also be quiet and successful in structured or technical positions that require hyper focus, creative problem solving, or troubleshooting.

Because diagnosis of ADD is a fairly recent scientific development, many adults don’t learn that they have ADD until their children are diagnosed. Additionally, scientists have recently concluded that ADD is an inherited brain-wiring trait—not a deficiency. People with ADD tend to have more creative, right brain strengths than linear, detail-oriented, left-brain strengths. As one of my bosses used to say, people with ADD are “right brained people in a left brained world”.

Employees with ADD may do very well in a job until they are moved or promoted to a position that is unstructured, unsupervised or undirected. In this new environment, they suddenly begin missing deadlines, letting details fall through the cracks, and failing to follow through with projects. Their paperwork becomes a chaotic mess, and they feel overwhelmed and stressed.

There are several types of ADD, and can range from mild to sever; some cases require medication to help the person stay calm and focused. Regardless of severity, though, as a boss, you can help employees with ADD to be more productive by using the tips below.

Since employees with ADD may be sensitive to pressure, asking them to finish a specific task will work better than ordering them to do it. Show respect and appreciation for their efforts and accomplishments.

They often over commit, so helping them to look at their current work load and teaching them how to say no or negotiate priorities will help them to stay on track and get the most important things done.

Present information in an orderly way and clearly express the format required and time table for expected results. Help them to break down assignments into small steps.

People with ADD learn best by doing rather than by listening or reading instructions. In training, “show and do” is most effective. When assigning tasks, show a sample of how the end product should look. Ask employees to review with you their action plan for getting the task accomplished.

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Quotes from famous people who may have had ADD

“ If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
Henry Ford

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Sir Winston Churchill

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Pablo Picasso

Job Seeking Tips:
Selling Your Self in 90 Seconds Or Less

Whether you are looking for a job or wanting to develop new business, the following steps and examples will help you create your own priceless 90-second sales pitch.

The first step is to define your ideal job/customer. The second is to create a resume or sales brochure and business card tuned to that ideal customer. The next step is to get out there and start meeting and talking with people.

But what to say? That’s where the 90-second presentation comes in. 90 seconds is actually longer that you will usually have to speak in a networking meeting or in a social conversation. However, by crafting a compelling 90-second statement about yourself and what you can do for your prospective employer/customer, you will have the foundation for an excellent shorter or longer conversation. Click here to read on:

If you want to power up your resume, job search and interview skills, give me a call at 281-293-8864 or email me at joan@bolmer.com for a free consultation.

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