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.
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Goal-Setting: Assisting with setting goals that are realistic and attainable – this sets the target of what we would work towards together!
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Metacognition: Learning more about how your brain works, so that strategies developed work for you
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Teaching and Development of Strategies: Explicitly teaching skills and strategies, while also helping you learn to develop your own
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Problem Solving: Through our RISE model, we help you work through the use of strategies, adapting them until it is working
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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:
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Inhibitory Controls
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Working Memory
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Cognitive Flexibility
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Planning and Prioritizing
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Organization
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Self-Monitoring
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Goal Setting
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Goal-Directed Persistence
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Task Initiation
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Time Management
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Proven Approaches: Our RASP and RISE models focus on individual challenges to promote growth
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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?
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Seasoned professionals who bring a wide variety of experience to the table. Coaches have graduate school educational backgrounds, and specific skill areas of expertise
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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
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Coaches are flexible and are happy to work around a client's busy schedule
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