Executive function is the cognitive function that enables individuals to plan and organize activities, sustain attention, and persist and complete tasks. These skills are critical not just for school success, but also needed to manage everyday living. Often, people have used the metaphor that executive function is like traffic control where one has to remember, plan, direct, manage, regulate, and act. In other words, we use these skills to help us regulate our behavior.
Coaching is a continuous and collaborative process that encourages the individual to make his/her own decisions and choices.
We use a holistic approach to building executive function capacity to help students develop life skills and not just homework skills. Coaches help students not only develop routines and schedules, but also learn strategies to manage time, priorities, organization, and reaching goals. We help students develop actions to meet short-term goals and steps to achieve long-term growth in academic and life skills.
Our coaches work on improving the performance and wellbeing of an individual through goal-setting, exploring values, and creating an actionable plan. Coaching focuses on performance improvement, visioning, the present, and moving into the future. It is, however, not about resolving emotional issues or dealing with personal healing and trauma recovery.