We all move through, experience and process the world differently due to our unique sensory responses at bottom brain level.

Working with teams in large organizations, we are always surprised by the many diverse individual ways of work.

From a sensory neuroscientific perspective, this is absolutely accurate and to be expected. We are all wired differently and are sensory neurodiverse.

We all process information differently – what I see and hear looks different from my colleague’s processing of visual and auditory stimuli. But what if we are a team of forensic auditors required to work with absolute precision and accuracy?

We all process people and proximity different. How I experience group work, offsites, openplan offices, and team builds, is vastly different to my team mates’ experience. These differences directly impact energy levels, social interaction, behaviour, and capacity for team work and therefore are crucial to understand and learn to embrace.

We all process environments differently. What I may find overloading and overwhelming may be ‘just right’ or even under-stimulating to my colleagues.

Lastly, we all have different movement needs to stay on task, regulated, motivated, and calm-alert during a workday for optimal performance and productivity.

As an individual, but even more so as a team leader, unpacking these differences and making the unconscious conscious – according to Carl Jung an inevitable and worthwhile exercise – we are empowered to get down to the business of business, and lead effectively, empowered with the knowledge that we are all uniquely human, yet vastly different, individuals.