Training "ADHD at Work: Recognize and Support": Program, Content, and Who It Is For
At work, ADHD is rarely named. It appears disguised in annual reviews and hallway discussions: "he has real potential but never finishes what he starts," "she produces brilliant work, except she misses every other deadline," "he interrupts in meetings, it annoys everyone." Three often accurate observations, three interpretations almost always off the mark.
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The associated training
This page details the ADHD at Work training from DYNSEO, "ADHD at Work: Recognize and Support": its content module by module, the professions and roles it addresses, its actual duration, its price, its deployment methods in companies, schools, or institutions — and the scope it does not cover. The goal is not to make you a caregiver, but to provide you with reliable benchmarks to observe accurately and support without awkwardness.
The Essentials in 30 Seconds
100% online training of 6 modules and 20 lessons (approximately 4 hours), followed by a final quiz, aimed at professionals who supervise or support adults affected by ADHD: managers, HR, disability referents, teachers, health professionals. Price: 150 €. Immediate and unlimited access.
- For whom — managers, HR managers, disability referents, teachers and trainers, occupational health professionals, small business leaders.
- Objective — to know how to recognize the manifestations of ADHD at work, adapt your posture, and implement simple and legal adjustments.
- What is covered — understanding adult ADHD, manager tools, team relationships, career and evaluation, burnout prevention.
- What is not covered — diagnosis, which remains the exclusive domain of a health professional.
- Organization — DYNSEO, certified Qualiopi (N° 11757351875), certificate of completion issued.
The problem it solves at work
The attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity does not disappear in adulthood. The High Authority of Health reminds us that it often persists after childhood and remains largely underdiagnosed in adults. At work, this translates into situations that the professional environment misinterprets, due to a lack of reference points. The result: tensions, underestimations, and sometimes departures that could have been avoided.
The starting point of the training is simple: most behaviors attributed to a lack of motivation, seriousness, or respect actually stem from attentional and executive mechanisms. Moving from observation to correct interpretation, then to adjustment, changes everything — for the person concerned as well as for the team.
| What is observed at work | Frequent interpretation | What it often is |
|---|---|---|
| Submits a report late despite being competent | Lack of seriousness, carelessness | Difficulty in initiation and planning (executive functions) |
| Gets distracted, opens ten tasks without finishing one | Disorganization, unwillingness | Attention and inhibition disorder |
| Interrupts, responds before the question is finished | Arrogance, rudeness | Verbal impulsivity, unintentional |
| Exhausted at the end of the day, less present in the afternoon | Complacency fatigue | Cognitive cost of masking and sustained attentional effort |
| Forgets an instruction given orally the day before | Doesn't listen, doesn't care | Fragile working memory |
| Reacts strongly to a comment in a meeting | Susceptibility, difficult character | Emotional sensitivity and frequent dysregulation in ADHD |
Each line of this table represents, in practice, a posture adjustment that costs a manager a few seconds and can transform a collaboration. This is precisely the aim of the training: to learn to distinguish behavior from judgment, and then to concretely adapt the work environment.
Who the ADHD training at work is for
This ADHD training at work is not primarily aimed at the individuals concerned themselves, but at those who supervise, support, or decide on their paths. This is a deliberate choice: it is often on the side of the professional environment that the difference between a talent that flourishes and a talent that exhausts itself is played out.
Managers and team leaders
Those who manage on a daily basis, set priorities, give instructions, and conduct interviews. They are the ones who benefit the most from the concrete tools in modules 2 and 4.
HR managers and disability referents
To structure an accommodation policy, secure the legal framework, and support an employee without ever diagnosing in place of the doctor.
Occupational health professionals
Occupational doctors and nurses, psychologists, who link the needs of the person with the possibilities of the organization.
Teachers and trainers
In training centers, in apprenticeships, in higher education: supporting adults and young adults with ADHD in a demanding educational framework.
Leaders of small and medium enterprises
Without a dedicated HR service, often alone facing the issue. Training provides a clear framework and applicable reflexes right away.
Colleagues and mentors
Those who work in direct contact, train a newcomer or lead a pair, and seek to better understand without stigmatizing.
Made for you / not made for you
| Your situation | This training… |
|---|---|
| You supervise a person whose behaviors confuse you without knowing how to read them | ✔ Perfectly suitable |
| You want to implement simple and legal accommodations in your team | ✔ Suitable — this is the most common use |
| You are looking to raise awareness in a team without betraying confidentiality | ✔ Suitable — dedicated module 3 |
| You are looking to obtain or to diagnose ADHD | ✘ No — diagnosis is exclusively the responsibility of a health professional |
| You are personally affected and looking for therapeutic follow-up | ✘ Rather see a specialized health professional |
| You are looking for a state diploma or a regulated qualification | ✘ No — this is a certificate of completion |
The program: 6 modules, 20 lessons
The course consists of six modules: five content modules (twenty short video lessons, including a situational exercise per module) and a final quiz that validates the acquired knowledge. The progression goes from understanding adult ADHD to preventing burnout and developing potential, through the tools for managers, team life, and career.
Understanding ADHD in adults
- Adult ADHD — what it really is
- The 3 profiles — inattentive, hyperactive, mixed — how it shows at work
- What ADHD costs the person — fatigue, shame, masking
- Situational exercises — Module 1
Concrete tools for the manager
- Simple accommodations that change everything
- Giving clear instructions — the method that works
- Giving feedback and managing difficult episodes
- Situational exercises — Module 2
ADHD and relationships in the team
- What colleagues see — and how they interpret it
- Raising awareness in the team without betraying confidentiality
- The strengths of the ADHD profile in a team — and how to mobilize them
- Situational exercises — Module 3
ADHD and Career
- Assessments — what skews everything without us seeing it
- Promotions and advancements — the invisible ceiling
- Building a sustainable support plan
- Situational exercises — Module 4
Burnout and Prevention
- Burnout and prevention — recognizing warning signs
- Transition to remote work — adapting tools and support
- Crisis and emergency management — ADHD under pressure
- ADHD leadership development — preparing an employee to manage
Final Quiz
- Quiz — ADHD at work: recognizing and supporting
“ What ADHD costs the person — fatigue, shame, masking ” (module 1), which explains why a talented employee may collapse in silence ; and “ Give clear instructions ” (module 2), which alone resolves a large part of daily misunderstandings. These are two immediate levers, applicable from the next day.
The logic of the program deserves to be highlighted : we do not start with solutions, but with understanding. As long as a manager reads a delay as a lack of respect, no adjustments will hold. That is why module 1 first establishes a framework for understanding, before the following modules provide tools. Each module ends with situational exercises : we do not learn definitions there, we repeat professional gestures.
Give your managers the right reflexes in the face of ADHD
6 modules, 20 lessons, about 4 hours, unlimited access and personalized certificate. Tools applicable from the next day, without ever encroaching on the role of the doctor.
Discover the training — 150 €Format and Organization
| Criterion | Detail |
|---|---|
| Format | 100% online, short video lessons |
| Content | 6 modules · 20 lessons · final quiz |
| Duration | About 4 hours in total |
| Rhythm | Free, with no imposed end date |
| Support | Computer, tablet, smartphone |
| Access | Immediate after registration, unlimited over time |
| Required Level | All levels, no prerequisites |
| Languages | 8 languages, including French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese |
| Validation | Final quiz and certificate of completion |
| Price | 150 € per learner |
The asynchronous format addresses a constraint specific to organizations : you cannot immobilize an entire team for a full day. The four hours are divided into sequences of ten to twenty minutes, taken during available times, without disrupting a schedule. The video lessons alternate explanations and situational exercises, and unlimited access allows you to revisit a specific sequence when the situation actually arises at the office.
The training teaches to observe and support, never to diagnose. No lesson allows you to tell an employee “ you have ADHD ”. The role of the supervising professional stops at the observation of concrete difficulties and, if the person wishes, the orientation towards a health professional.
What you will be able to do at the end
Recognize the manifestations
Distinguish the three profiles (inattentive, hyperactive, mixed, according to the reference classification of psychiatry) and identify how they manifest concretely at work.
Implement adjustments
Choose simple adjustments that really change daily life: organization of instructions, time frame, sound environment, digital tools.
Give clear instructions
Formulate an instruction that can be utilized by a person whose working memory is fragile, and provide feedback that refocuses without hurting.
Manage team dynamics
Raise awareness among colleagues without revealing confidential information, defuse misunderstandings, and highlight the strengths of the profile.
Secure evaluation and career
Identify biases that distort an annual evaluation and build a sustainable support plan rather than a temporary fix.
Prevent burnout
Recognize the warning signs of burnout, adapt support in remote work, and know when to refer to a health professional.
An example of what the training makes concrete. Faced with a colleague who has not started a task assigned orally the day before, the old reflex is to blame: “I told you yesterday, you never listen to me.” The new reflex, worked through role-playing, is different. One says: “I confirm the priority in writing: file X for Thursday at 4 PM. Tell me the first step you plan to take today.” We secure the instruction, we anchor a starting point, we transform a reproach into support.
Never say “make an effort,” “focus a little,” or “everyone can do it, why not you.” These phrases attribute the difficulty to a lack of will and fuel shame and masking. Never disclose to the team that a person is affected by ADHD without their explicit consent: it is health information, protected by confidentiality.
Qualiopi, certificate and funding
DYNSEO is a certified training organization Qualiopi, registered under the activity declaration number 11757351875. The certification focuses on the quality of the process: defined educational objectives, adaptation to the audience, qualification of the trainers, collection of feedback, and continuous improvement. It is a guarantee of seriousness for an HR service that must justify its training choices.
Each learner receives a certificate of completion in their name, to be added to the individual file and usable within the quality approach of the organization. It is neither a state diploma nor a regulated qualification: it is a certificate of participation in a training action, issued after following the lessons and passing the final quiz.
On the financing side, the Qualiopi certification is the condition that allows an employer to consider coverage under the skills development plan or by their skills operator. The rules, ceilings, and procedures vary by country, sector, and operators: the only reliable approach is to have the quote and program validated by the HR service or the funding organization before the purchase. Never present coverage as guaranteed before this validation.
Deploying training in an organization
The online format facilitates collective deployment — in a company, a school, or an institution — provided that you do not just send a link.
- Set an observable objective. For example: reduce misunderstandings around instructions and harmonize the conduct of interviews within three months. Without an objective, training remains just a box checked.
- Block out time. Two slots of twenty minutes per week scheduled are better than a directive of “do it when you can.”
- Designate a referent. Often the disability referent or an informed manager, who advances a module in advance and leads five minutes of recap in the team meeting.
- Ground each module in reality. After module 2, revisit a recent instruction that was misunderstood. After module 4, review the annual interview grid together to remove biases.
- Archive certificates as you go, in the training file, with the date of quiz completion.
- Plan a follow-up in three months. What has really changed in practices? This is what distinguishes useful training from consumed training.
One principle runs through this entire deployment: confidentiality. The training equips supervisors to improve a work environment for the benefit of all, without ever naming or “policing” anyone. The adjustments that help a person with ADHD — written instructions, clear priorities, structured meetings — actually benefit the whole team.
Pricing and registration
The training is offered at 150 € per learner. The price is displayed in the visitor's currency according to their country of connection.
- Open the training page and add it to the cart.
- Create the learner account, or log in, then confirm the payment.
- Access is immediate: the training appears in the learner's space and the first lesson starts right away.
For deployment across multiple positions or a quote at the scale of a company or institution, the contact page allows you to obtain a tailored proposal. The complete catalog of courses is available on the our training page.
What this training is not
- It does not make any diagnosis. Recognizing manifestations is not diagnosing: the diagnosis of ADHD is exclusively the responsibility of a healthcare professional trained for this purpose.
- It does not replace therapeutic follow-up. The medical, psychological, or medication support for a concerned person remains the responsibility of healthcare professionals.
- It does not provide any medical competence. It teaches how to adjust a work environment, not to evaluate or treat a disorder.
- It is not a diploma. The certificate attests to participation, not to a regulated qualification.
- It is not an in-person training. There is no live trainer or group exchanges: it is an asynchronous video course.
If a colleague expresses significant suffering, severe exhaustion, or dark thoughts, do not stay alone with the situation: refer to the occupational physician, a healthcare professional, or in case of vital emergency, to the emergency services in your country. Your role is to listen and guide, not to provide medical care.
To go further
Everyday SituationsADHD at work: 10 difficult situations and how to respond
ToolboxADHD at work: activities, resources, and concrete adjustments to implement
Professional AttitudeADHD at work: posture, teamwork, and skills development
Several free DYNSEO tools directly complement this training: the attention refocusing cards and the attention strategy cards to support concentration, the impulsivity management sheet and the ADHD emotional regulation sheet for moments of tension, and the behavioral tracking chart to objectify observations. The complete catalog is freely accessible, the cognitive tests allow for an initial non-medical identification, and the application CLINT serves as a training support for attention for adults.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take to complete the training ?
About four hours in total for the 6 modules and the 20 lessons, including the final quiz. Since the lessons are short, most professionals spread the course over two to four weeks, with two slots of twenty minutes per week. Access remains open afterwards : you can return to a specific lesson when the situation arises in the field, before an annual review for example, or when a new colleague joins the team. The pace is entirely free, with no imposed end date.
Does this training allow for the diagnosis of ADHD ?
No, and this is a crucial point. The training teaches how to recognize manifestations of ADHD at work and how to adapt your posture, but it does not provide any diagnostic skills. The diagnosis of ADHD is exclusively the responsibility of a healthcare professional trained for this purpose. Your role as a supervisor stops at observing concrete difficulties and, if the person wishes, directing them to a healthcare professional. The training also emphasizes the phrases that should never be spoken and the importance of confidentiality.
Can the training be funded by the employer ?
This is possible : DYNSEO is a certified Qualiopi training organization, which is generally a requirement for funding under the skills development plan or by a skills operator. The rules, limits, and procedures vary by country, sector, and funders. The reliable approach is to have the program and the quote validated by your HR department or your funding organization before the purchase. Never consider funding as guaranteed until it has been confirmed in writing.
Can an entire team or organization be registered ?
Yes. Each professional has their own learner account and personal certificate, which allows for the submission of documents to individual files and supports the quality approach. For deployment across multiple positions or a quote for a company, school, or institution, go through the contact page of the site : a proposal tailored to the number of learners can be established. Collective deployment benefits from being accompanied by an internal referent and team follow-up time.
Are prior knowledge of ADHD required ?
No. The training is classified at all levels and starts with an understanding of adult ADHD, explained simply, before moving on to management tools and professional situations. It is suitable for both a manager discovering the topic and a disability referent or an occupational health professional wishing to structure and update their practices. The situational exercises present in each module help anchor the concepts in concrete cases, without unnecessary jargon or theoretical prerequisites.
This page describes the content of a training action. Funding conditions and training obligations vary by country and employers : check with your HR department or your funding organization. This content does not constitute medical advice and does not replace the evaluation of a healthcare professional.
Make your management an asset against ADHD at work
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