ADHD Business Coaching is becoming increasingly important.
Most of our clients come to us because:
• they are having difficulties parenting their ADHD children
• their teens are battling in high school or university
• their marriages are in trouble
Many ADDers become entrepreneurs because they don’t fit into the corporate environment. Having to submit time sheets and do admin feels like a waste of productive time.
Informing employers about your ADHD can be risky. No matter how enlightened the employer there is the possibility of being discriminated against.
Even when you go into business on your own and start employing staff, you still need to do your admin and taxes and the buck stops with you.
Running your own business is lonely. Finding the right person to bounce ideas off is hard.
Dave worked with the owners of two midsized companies who were merging to form a new entity.
What do you do if you are going into a partnership, and you have ADHD? It is wise to get it out in the open.
In this case, both guys have ADHD, so it wasn’t an issue. It certainly made the coaching easier, even though one of them has the Inattentive Type, and the other the Combined/Hyperactive Type - complementary skills.
One of the significant points raised in a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis I did, was that the impacts of ADHD and the personal baggage the two of them were dragging into the new business were both
a Weakness and Threat.
While ADHD was also in the Strengths column, it was overshadowed.
I realised that the chances of the merger working, were less than 40%. BUT, the positives were potentially so powerful that they could easily wipe out the negatives if built on.
And so, it proved. Lifting the focus away from the detail, away from the past hurts, away from “me,” provided the breakthrough.
We created a “fuzzy” shape of what the company could look like, set out definite and agreed goals, defined their roles, and focused their egos onto their own strengths, not the other’s weaknesses.
These two brave men took a giant leap of faith, and agreed to do what they do best, for the greater good of the company and all its employees.
The odds of success have now improved to better than 70%. There is lots of hard work to do, and much debate about who is right and what is best.
But they have the tools now. These are the same tools that ADDers don’t learn as children.