Executive functioning is responsible for many skills, including:

• Paying attention
• Organizing, planning, and prioritizing
• Starting and finishing the assigned tasks
• Understanding different points of view
• Regulating emotions
• Self-monitoring (keeping track of what you’re doing)

Executive function skills are what we call self-management abilities that help people achieve goals. These skills are crucial to meet the challenges of ever-increasing school, work, and life demands in a timely and effective manner. People must manage their emotions and attention, organize, plan, critique their work, and revise their strategies as circumstances change.

The goal of executive functioning coaching is to teach adults and professionals these skills, develop them effectively, and apply them to navigate their career and personal responsibilities successfully. Executive functioning coaches will use real-life situations typically encountered at home, at work, and in other professional or social settings as vehicles to build these executive function skills.

Themba Tutors’ executive function coaching is designed to help adults and professionals, who are struggling to manage daily life demands due to ADHD, diagnosed executive functioning deficits, or other learning differences. We also coach adults and professionals who did not receive a formal diagnosis. For many of these individuals, executive functioning struggles often lead to frustration and feeling discouraged or inadequate. This is especially true when their challenges are perceived as laziness.

Most of the clients we work with are very bright but haven’t been taught the tools and strategies required to succeed. Our executive function coaching provides the encouragement, strategies, and insight they need to become more effective and confident in their daily personal and professional lives.

Our Coaches and Tutors Can Help Overcome These Challenges:

• Trouble starting and/or completing tasks
• Difficulty prioritizing tasks
• Forgetting what was just heard or read
• Trouble following directions or a sequence of steps given to them
• Panicking when rules or routines change
• Trouble changing and shifting focus from one task to another
• Getting overly emotional and fixated on things
• Trouble organizing their thoughts into words and ideas
• Trouble keeping track of their belongings
• Trouble managing their time

Clients themselves are not the only ones getting the benefits of executive function coaching. Partners and family members often tell us that household friction is reduced with coaching in place. Teachers and colleagues also report positive shifts in individuals who receive our coaching service.