Leadership and Translating ADHD

If someone had key information regarding an important business decision you would want to know what that was, right? If you identified an obstacle that stood in the way of implementing positive changes you would do all in your power to identify the obstacle and assemble resources to overcome that too, right?

A couple of facts - If you are a leader with ADHD, your ADHD is impacting your work and your team in positive and negative ways. Secondly, you are not aware of all of that impact because that is the true nature of living with ADHD. Learning about your ADHD will help you and your team to make better informed choices going forward.

We all strive to make better informed choices. Recently, I’ve been focusing my efforts on creating a reliable resource to help people understand what is it like to live and work with ADHD and in turn make better informed choices. Translating ADHD is a concept that my podcast partner Shelly Collins and I developed in the early planning stages of the podcast of the same name. Twenty episodes in and we are astonished at the stamina of this concept. Translating ADHD is basically a process of understanding a unique element of one’s ADHD in order to leverage a situation or an opportunity. It is designed for anyone who wants to be more successful at work but I think there is an additional opportunity for those in a leadership position to listen in. ADHD impacts in interesting and dynamic ways but often a leader is not thinking about their ADHD when faced with a challenge. They are thinking about the challenge and how to overcome it. Leaders and entrepreneurs are well aware of utilizing valuable information to leverage it into an opportunity but few leaders view their ADHD in this manner. Your brain is your best resource. Your attention or bandwidth is the advance scout team that the main column will follow.

Having ADHD is a paradoxical experience, because having ADHD inhibits our ability to understand our ADHD experiences. For leaders this can be compounded in many ways since our actions affect more than just those immediately around us. One would consider it reckless and risky to move forward with out available and valuable information. Listening to this podcast will provide insight into how your brain works so you can understand and own it and eventually translate it into better decisions.