Understand What Helps Someone Work at Their Best
A structured workplace assessment bringing together the employee’s experience, the demands of their role and the wider working environment.
The aim is to develop a clear understanding of what may help in practice, with practical, role-specific recommendations for the employee and organisation.
Online in the UK and internationally, with selected in-person appointments available.
Employees & organisations
Where a clearer understanding of the person, role and workplace context would help identify appropriate support.
Employee + manager/HR input
Both perspectives are considered so recommendations reflect the individual and the realities of the role.
A full Workplace Needs Assessment report
With practical, role-specific recommendations and clear next steps.
Understanding the Fit Between Person, Role & Workplace
A Workplace Needs Assessment can be useful when an employee or organisation wants a clearer understanding of how someone works best and what practical changes may support them in their role.
Organisation & workload
Understanding approaches that may help with prioritising, planning, managing competing demands or structuring work.
Communication
Exploring how information, expectations, feedback or workplace communication can be made clearer and more effective.
Environment & sensory needs
Considering how the working environment may interact with concentration, comfort and day-to-day working.
Ways of working
Identifying practical strategies, adjustments or tools that fit the employee’s strengths, role and responsibilities.
Looking at the Whole Workplace Picture
The assessment considers the employee’s experience alongside the demands and context of the role, rather than looking at either in isolation.
How the employee works best
Strengths, ways of processing information, organisation, communication, sensory experiences and strategies already in use.
What the job actually requires
Core responsibilities, workload, communication demands, working patterns, systems and expectations.
The wider workplace context
Factors such as workspace, team structure, management processes, hybrid working and organisational systems where relevant.
What may help in practice
Practical adjustments, strategies and ways of working that are relevant to the employee and realistic within the role.
Employee & Workplace Perspectives
Both perspectives form an important part of the assessment, helping ensure recommendations connect to the employee’s experience and the practical realities of the role.
Employee consultation
Around one hour exploring the employee’s role, strengths, working preferences, current strategies and areas where support may help.
Manager / HR consultation
Around one hour exploring the role, workplace context, current support and what may realistically be implemented.
Bringing it together
The information is considered together to understand the interaction between the person, role and working environment.
Your report
A full written Workplace Needs Assessment report is provided within 8 working days, with practical recommendations and next steps.
Practical Recommendations for the Real Role
Recommendations are shaped around the employee and what they actually need to do at work, rather than relying on generic lists of adjustments.
A clearer picture of workplace needs
An explanation of how the employee’s strengths, working style and needs interact with the demands of their role.
Practical, role-specific support
Recommendations may consider adjustments, technology, communication, workload, organisation, working practices or other relevant support.
A full written WPNA report
The report brings the assessment together clearly so the employee and organisation can understand the rationale for the recommendations.
It can then be shared with the manager, HR or another organisational contact with the employee’s consent.
Arrange a Workplace Needs Assessment
A structured assessment with employee and manager/HR input, practical recommendations and a full written report.
WPNA or Complex Workplace Support?
Understanding what support may help now
A WPNA is designed to understand the employee, role and workplace context and identify practical adjustments or support.
“What does this employee need in this role, and what may help?”When support has already been considered or tried
Complex Workplace Support is designed for situations where assessment, Occupational Health advice, adjustments or other support are already in place or have been tried, but questions remain.
“What has happened so far, why has support only partly helped, and what should happen next?” Explore Complex Workplace SupportBefore You Arrange a WPNA
Does the employee need a diagnosis?
No. A Workplace Needs Assessment focuses on the employee’s functional needs within their role. A formal neurodivergent diagnosis is not required.
Why do you speak with the manager or HR?
Their input helps clarify the role, workplace demands and what can realistically be implemented. This allows recommendations to reflect both the employee’s experience and the actual working context.
Can the assessment be completed online?
Yes. Workplace Needs Assessments can be completed online in the UK and internationally. Selected in-person appointments are also available.
Who receives the report?
The employee receives the report first. It can then be shared with the manager, HR or another organisational contact with the employee’s consent.
How quickly is the report provided?
The full written Workplace Needs Assessment report is provided within 8 working days.
What if adjustments have already been tried?
Where substantial assessment, advice or workplace support has already been considered or tried and questions remain, Complex Neurodivergent Workplace Support may be a more appropriate route.
Ready to Discuss Workplace Support?
Arrange a Workplace Needs Assessment or get in touch if you would like to check whether this is the right workplace service.