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Executive Skills Coaching

Planning. Organizing. Academic Strategy.

Parents can have a hard time understanding their child’s challenges. Seeing them thrive in some areas and struggle in others. They may apply tools that have worked for them, only to be met with resistance or a lack of results. Accommodations at school, if they are provided at all, are often inconsistent and may not even meet the needs of their child.

What our Clients Struggle With 

  Emotional Disregulation 

  • Panicking and acting out 

  • Overwhelm leading to avoidance 

  • Disconnection or “don’t care” attitude

            Behaviour Challenges

  • Cramming for tests or assignments 

  • Careless mistakes

  • Failure to meet assignment criteria

  • Procrastination 

  • Refusing to use an agenda or planner

  • Explosive bags and binders

  Executive Functioning Skills 

  • Starting and focusing on tasks 

  • Disorganization and forgetfulness 

  • Misunderstanding instructions 

  • Losing important items 

  • Prioritization 

  • Breaking tasks down into steps

How We Help Them

One-on-One virtual coaching sessions with a skilled and trained coach who has compassion, experience and understanding.

Fostering Self-Understanding and Self-Direction 

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  • Help students understand their inner experience and choices better

  • Encourage tools to help them self-direct

  • Combat procrastination by creating a deeper understanding of what causes it

  • Present choices instead of saying "do your work"

  • Describe the likely consequences of decisions

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​Building Foundational Steps for Developing Executive Skills

 

  • Identify goals and set intentions

  • Manage assignments in three steps: planning, scheduling, and time management

  • Prioritize assignments 

  • Find an agenda system that works for them

  • Organize binders and bags 

  • Understanding and clarifying instructions

  • Understanding their learning process improves self-management strategies.

  • Making organization fun and relevant helps students locate important items, which reduces stress

  • Connecting the effort of work and daily life with personal goals builds intrinsic motivation

  • Motivation promotes action, which aids in overcoming procrastination which reduces stress and preserves relationships

  • Students strengthen their executive skills to improve their academic performance

  • Preparing for tasks reduces overwhelm, reducing avoidance

Why it works:

“Students with underdeveloped executive skills struggle to connect actions taken today with goals for tomorrow. They have trouble starting and focusing on tasks. They are disorganized and forgetful. Their academic performance suffers. They cram last minute, they make careless mistakes, they panic, and they act out. But it needn’t be this way.”

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What Students need to know about Executive Skills Training

Do you have a bag stuffed full of worksheets? Do your assignments, tests, and quizzes pop up out of nowhere?! Do you like learning but dread tests? Me too. But I have tricks for dealing with schoolwork—let me show you.

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