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What is Executive Function Coaching?

Developing the "CEO of your Brain"

Executive Functions are a set of cognitive abilities that help manage, control, and regulate your brain. They are known as goal-directed behaviors that help you navigate towards, adapt, and achieve your goals.

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How can coaching impact executive functions?

Coaching combines both teaching and applied practice to help individuals develop strategies and approaches that can help them achieve their goals. 

  • Goal-Setting: Assisting with setting goals that are realistic and attainable – this sets the target of what we would work towards together!

  • Metacognition: Learning more about how your brain works, so that strategies developed work for you

  • Teaching and Development of Strategies: Explicitly teaching skills and strategies, while also helping you learn to develop your own

  • Problem Solving: Through our RISE model, we help you work through the use of strategies, adapting them until it is working

  • Accountability: Once strategies are found that work, we then help you maintain them – knowing what to do is only half the battle, actually using them is the other half

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Executive Functions: 

  • Inhibitory Controls

  • Working Memory

  • Cognitive Flexibility

  • Planning and Prioritizing

  • Organization

  • Self-Monitoring

  • Goal Setting

  • Goal-Directed Persistence

  • Task Initiation

  • Time Management

  • Shifting

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How can executive function coaching help me specifically?

We follow a proven process to make sure that coaching is designed to meet your wants and needs:

  • Consultation Process: We have a consultation where we help identify individual goals and challenges. During this consult, our team helps you identify which executive functions are impacting your ability to succeed.

  • Coach Matching: We match you with a coach based on the coaching plan. This matching takes into account factors like: who you will work best with, who has the best experience to support you, and who will be able to meet all your other needs and wants.

  • Real World Applications: Our supports are adapted to your current responsibilities. Since your responsibilities change, we assist in prioritizing what is most important to be working on at each coaching session.

  • Accountability and Maintenance: While we respond to your changing needs, we also assist in keeping you on task: not giving up on goals just because they are too hard.

  • Personally Designed Coaching Schedules: New Frontiers offers individualized coaching schedules. We run sessions in 15 minute intervals, meaning you can have three 15-minute sessions, or one 30-minute and one 15-minute spread throughout a week. We also provide texting check ins depending on the individual needs. Each individual’s schedule is unique and adapts to the individual’s needs.

  • Proven Approaches: Our RASP and RISE models focus on individual challenges to promote growth

  • Pedagogy: Use of Explicit Instruction and Cognitive Modeling to assist in the growth and development of skills and strategies that work for you.

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Who are the coaches?

  • Seasoned professionals who bring a wide variety of experience to the table. Coaches have  graduate school educational backgrounds, and specific skill areas of expertise

  • Clients come to us with very specific needs and goals. We put special care in matching clients with the ideal coach who can meet those specific needs

  • Coaches are flexible and are happy to work around a client's busy schedule

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Interested in learning more?  Schedule a complimentary discovery call.

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