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What Makes a Great Brains Trust?
Reading Ben Thomas's opinion piece in The Press this weekend got me thinking.
By Chris Cole
Cognitively diverse teams drive
Peppr adapts your team's workflows to how every person thinks. No diagnosis, no disclosure, no one singled out.
# product-teamSlack
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PepprAPP9:12
No agenda for the 10am. Draft one?
Works inside the tools your team already uses
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Calendar
- Outlook
Neurodivergent people are the most undetected strength in every workforce
The talent is already on payroll. Most workplaces are simply not built to see it.
1 in 5
have dyslexia
20% of your entire org. Most don't know yet.
95%
never find out
One in five adults process information differently, and no one's built for them.
52%
won't tell you
When people can't work the way they think best, everyone pays for it.
In a team of 100, that's 20 people. Most of them don't know it yet.
Peppr unlocks the
that's been there all along
Your team already has the talent. Peppr makes sure the environment matches. Three steps, no forms for HR.
Step 1: Connect your tools
Slack or Teams, plus your calendar. Peppr reads how your team actually works and starts shaping it.
WorkspaceAcme Co- SlackConnected
- Google CalendarConnected
- Peppr is learning how your team works
Step 2: Everyone answers a few questions
How do you like to prep, focus, take in information? That's it. No diagnosis. No labels. Nothing shared with the boss.
Sam's answersPrivateOnly Sam sees thisHow do you prep for meetings?
Read firstRead firstTalk firstTalk firstWhere do you do your best work?
Solo focusSolo focusGroup energyGroup energyHow do you take in information?
VisualVisualWrittenWrittenStep 3: Peppr does the rest
Nudges in the right place at the right time. Clearer structure, fewer blockers. Your team just works better.
#product-teamSlackPepprAPPTue 9:12Long doc dropping for Thursday's review. Sending it now so people can read at their own pace.Sent two days early. 6 people read it.
An empty calendar doesn't mean a team has room.
Energy, capacity and clarity lean on each other, and trust shapes all three. Drag a bar and watch the others change.
Energy
Capacity
Clarity
Trust
Pulls land fast and fade slowly, the way tiredness does.
Taking the most right now
Low clarity costs 23 points of energy
People burn energy guessing what matters.
Example values only. In Peppr, every reading is team-level and needs five or more people.
Meetings are half of it. The rest happens on the board.
Every person gets a private board to sort their day into piles. Every meeting gets a shared one, so everyone has the same surface to put their ideas on. Peppr shapes each board to the people on it: more structure for some, more room for others. This one is real. Try it, it stays in your browser.
Untitled boardPeppr
Four workshops. One hour to start.
Understand dyslexic thinking first, then apply it to leadership, communication and hiring. From the Unlock Innovation team, now part of Peppr.
Book a pilot
90 days. One flat price for your whole org. A contained pilot with a representative group, starting from each person's working-style profile.
- Runs alongside your existing tools
- Nobody has to disclose anything
- Hands-on workshops, run inside your org
- Weekly check-ins, so we learn and adjust as we go
- Day 90: we review the evidence together and decide what scaling looks like
Prefer email? hey [at] peppr [dot] io
What the 90 days look like
DiscoverWeeks 0 to 1
Understand different thinking
ProfileWeeks 1 to 2
Everyone answers a few questions
ExperienceWeeks 2 to 4
Peppr shapes meetings and messages
EmbedWeeks 3 to 10
It becomes how the team works
MeasureThroughout
Check-ins and team-level signals
ReviewWeeks 11 to 12
Look at the evidence, decide on scale