The ADHD guide to career success
Subtitle: harness your strengths, manage your challenges
By: Kathleen Nadeau
Edition: Second edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781138843660
Subjects: Employment; Attention-deficit-disordered adults; Career development
Description: The workplace is the arena where adults with ADHD face their greatest challenges. It is possible to cultivate a work environment that enables them to thrive and uses the strengths of this unique condition to their advantage. In a book designed with the ADHD reader in mind, Nadeau offers an easy-to-follow progression of useful information interwoven with practical strategies for career success.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Harness your strengths, manage your challenges: an overview; title: Strengths-focused ADHD career assessments; title: Guided self-assessments to address on-the-job challenges; title: Problem solving when you need a change at work; title: ADHD and personality type at work; title: ADHD and learning challenges; title: Putting the positive side of ADHD to work; title: Taking charge of your ADHD at work; title: Building positive relationships at work; title: An ADHD-friendly work environment; title: What to look for in a boss; title: ADHD and the Americans with Disabilities Act; title: Strategies and accommodations to function better at work; title: Alternatives to the "9 to 5"; title: Workplace issues for women with ADHD; title: Using technology to manage workplace challenges; title: Becoming your own ADHD success story; title: Putting it all together to achieve your career goals; title: ADHD workplace questionnaire.