Oct 16, 2019
In this episode, Tracy talks to ICF and board-certified ADHD coach, Certified Career Development Coach and Life Coach, Lynn Miner-Rosen. Lynn works with high school seniors, college students and young adults with ADHD, EF deficits and learning differences. Previous to coaching Lynn was a Special Education Teacher for 12 years. She was also an IEP coordinator. Lynn Miner-Rosen has a BS in business administration and two Masters Degrees in Education and Special Education. She lives in Boca Raton, Florida and will be speaking at CHADD in November.
Lynn spoke to us about ADHD and the workplace. We discuss:
- If you should disclose your ADHD to your boss, work colleagues, human resources etc?
- What the positives and negatives of disclosure are?
- If you do choose to disclose, how do you go about doing so?
- How to make your strengths clear so you’re not just focusing on everything you struggle with?
- If tardiness can be overlooked in the ADHD workplace?
- How to ask for help without disclosing your ADHD?
- If you’re going to disclose who should you disclose to first?
- How
to create a descriptive and reasonable list if you are going to ask
or accommodations.
- The Top 10 challenges of ADHD employees and how to manage themTime Management
- Long-term projects
- Paperwork
- Procrastination
- Poor Memory
- Distractibility
- Impulsivity
- Boredom
- Hyperactivity
- Social Skills
You can find more about Lynn Miner-Rosen at www.lmrcoaching.com or follow her on Instagram @adhdcoachlynn. Lynn also prepared a FREE downloadable checklist for us. You can find it here.