Why Are Executive Functions Important?
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CALL (310) 896-8510
Master Your Time Management Skills With Executive Functions Skills Coaching.
Executive functions skills can be critical in today’s virtual learning environment.
At EFC, our programs help students and adults hone their time management skills.
In a virtual learning world, there is an ever increasing number of tabs to keep track. Training executive functions skills will ensure that the brain is able to keep track of projects and stay on track!
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At EFC, our programs help students and adults hone their time management skills.
In a virtual learning world, there is an ever increasing number of tabs to keep track. Training executive functions skills will ensure that the brain is able to keep track of projects and stay on track!
What Are Executive Functions Skills?
Executive Functions are the skills that we use to set a goal, make a plan, and then do the steps needed to complete the plan and meet the goal.
Here are the Three Main Areas of Executive Functions.
How Do Executive Functions Skills Work In A Virtual Learning Environment?
Executive functions skills are part of everything we do, especially in today’s virtual learning world.
How Do Executive Functions Skills Work In A Virtual Learning Environment?
Executive functions skills are part of everything we do, especially in today’s virtual learning world.
Executive Functions Skills Challenges And How Are They Amplified In A Virtual Learning World?
For a person with executive functions skills challenges, each note taking step is an opportunity to go off track.
Our Executive Functions Skills Game Plan
Building executive functions skills in the brain is a lot like working out. We work with each family through our virtual learning academy to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Here is the step by step breakdown of our virtual learning academy for building executive functions skills.
Executive Functions Introductory Session
In this comprehensive first session, our coaches will work with the family to understand the areas that need improvement, provide some strategies, and come up with a game plan that works.
Executive Functioning Strategies Session
Our coaches work with each student for 1 to 1.5 hours to review their week, talk about strategies that could work and come up with a plan to implement.
Executive Functions Check-in
Our coaches work with each student twice a week for 15 minutes to see how implementation is during the week.
After each executive functions strategy and check-in session…
our coaches will provide an email, updating parents on progress and how to best provide support at home.
Our Executive Functions Skills Game Plan
Building executive functions skills in the brain is a lot like working out. We work with each family through our virtual learning academy to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Here is the step by step breakdown of our virtual learning academy for building executive functions skills.
In this comprehensive first session, our coaches will work with the family to understand the areas that need improvement, provide some strategies, and come up with a game plan that works.
Our coaches work with each student for 1 to 1.5 hours to review their week, talk about strategies that could work and come up with a plan to implement.
Our coaches work with each student twice a week for 15 minutes to see how implementation is during the week.
And check in session, our coaches will provide an email, updating parents on progress and how to best provide support at home.
Our Executive Functions Skills Team
" If you're not being given the tools you need to excel, go and get them. "
After a brief stint in the legal profession, Luis Limon found his calling as a teacher and since then has spent most of his professional life in some one area of education or another. As a teacher and executive functions coach, Luis Limon believes in the Three P’s: Persistence, Positivity, and Patience. Luis finds the most satisfaction in helping students with executive functions challenges find the tools that enable them to survive and thrive in systems that were not created with them in mind. Luis is least satisfied when being made to write about himself in the Third Person.
— LUIS L. Executive Functions Coach’s Director of Learning —
" Sessions with my executive functions skills coach was the one activity I didn’t dread growing up. "
Being diagnosed with ADD from a very young age, he immediately connected with the vision of building a virtual learning academy for executive functions training. It was because of his strong foundation with executive functions skills and the coaches he had that he was able to excel at UCLA. Today, he serves as the individual that makes Executive Functions Coach run in the background. In addition, Dan is also an EF Coach and a STEM Teacher at EFC.
— DAN W., Executive Functions Coach’s Director of Operations —
Our Executive Functions Skills Team
" If you're not being given the tools you need to excel, go and get them. "
— LUIS L. Executive Functions Coach’s Director of Learning —
After a brief stint in the legal profession, Luis Limon found his calling as a teacher and since then has spent most of his professional life in some one area of education or another.
" Sessions with my executive functions skills coach was the one activity I didn’t dread growing up. "
— DAN W., Executive Functions Coach’s Director of Operations —
Being diagnosed with ADD from a very young age, he immediately connected with the vision of building a virtual learning academy for executive functions training.
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Why are Executive Functions Important?
Executive functions are critical in everyday functioning and help each individual organize, prioritize, plan, complete daily tasks, think critically, and make decisions. These tasks can be something as simple as cleaning your room to something as complex as planning a big project.
What are the 7 executive functions?
The 7 executive functions are remembering information, keeping our lives organized, planning and breaking down tasks, controlling our emotions, initiating and transitioning tasks, controlling our impulses, and setting goals and monitoring our progress.
What are executive function skills?
Executive functioning skills are our ability to perform purposeful, goal-orientated behaviors in an unstructured environment. Read our blog “What Are Executive Functioning Skills?”
What are signs of poor executive functioning?
Common signs of poor executive functioning in students and adults are having a hard time initiating a task, completing a task by a deadline, turning in a task, expressing emotions, shifting between tasks, difficulties with problem solving and critical thinking, and impulse control.
Can Executive Functions be Improved?
Of course! Improving executive functions is all about finding the right tools that work for you and then just practicing them over and over again until you have mastered them. Having a coach along the way will help guide you through each step and keep you accountable.
What Improves Executive Functions?
The key to improving your executive functions is motivation, tools, and accountability. We have to have motivation to improve our lives in order to use the tools that will help our executive functions. If we want to continually improve, we have to have an accountability factor put in place.
How do Executive Functions Develop?
Executive functions develop over time with the right learning environment. Some learn them in high school, while others learn them in college or at their first job. Developing them takes commitment and is hard. Having friends, family and maybe even a coach to keep you accountable throughout the process is very important.
What Are Considered Executive Functions?
Understanding executive functions can be confusing. Some very common and hopefully relatable examples of executive functions include understanding and breaking down the main idea of a project, assignment or task, starting that task, making decisions, and controlling impulses.
Can You Develop Executive Functions?
Yes! Some of us naturally develop these neurological pathways and have learning environments that allow them to flourish. However, for some, these skills are just dormant and need to be booted up and trained.
How are Executive Functions Learned?
The first step to learning about Executive Functions is to understand where your strengths and weaknesses lie with these skills. Then from there, having a coach that can help you build specific strategies towards tackling each weakness using your strength will be critical to learning how to master your executive functions.
What are Executive Functions in Psychology?
In Psychology, executive functions are often defined as one’s ability to plan and execute tasks, make decisions, control their impulses, regulate their emotions, shift from one task to another, and understand and communicate instructions.
Can Executive Functions be Improved in Adults?
Absolutely! If there is strong intrinsic motivation for change and a willingness to stick to a daily, weekly routine then anyone can improve their executive functions.
What are Executive Functions ADHD?
Executive functions that have to do with ADHD are generally pinpointed to impulse control, mental and spatial planning, shifting from one task to another, and working memory.
Can Executive Functions be Limited by Toxic Stress?
Our executive functions are called into action the most during stressful situations, good or bad. However, when a situation becomes toxic, our ability to perform executive functions is limited, and we tend to shut down. This is oftentimes equated to feeling like you are in a foggy-blinded state.
How Executive Functions Contribute to Reading Comprehension?
There are a few components to this, but the two main components are working memory and shifting. Working memory helps us take in information, understand it, and break it down. Shifting helps us go from one topic to the next fluidly and cohesively. Both of these play a critical role in reading comprehension.
What Executive Functions Are the Frontal Cortex Responsible For?
Our executive functions are housed in the prefrontal cortex of our brain, so in short our frontal cortex plays a role in all of our executive functions from working memory to critical thinking.
What does an executive functions coach do?
An executive functions coach (EFC) works with a student to establish structure in their personal and academic lives for long-term independence.
What age group does Executive Functions Coach serve?
Individuals find an executive functions coach to be helpful at all stages of their life. Many of us can remember a time where we are overwhelmed and our brains just stopped working. Executive function skills training can help you prevent that.
How do executive functioning sessions work?
Every student of ours comes from a different background, so we always start with a 15 minute consultation to answer any general questions about executive functioning coaching. After that, we will schedule a session to run through some simple executive functioning strategies and end it with feedback and our suggested gameplan. From there, we like to structure one strategy session and either 1-3 check in sessions. This usually results in 1.5-2.5 hours a week with an executive functions coach.
Do executive functions coaches hold group sessions?
At EFC, we believe in an individualized approach to training executive function skills, but we also understand that group sessions are more budget-friendly. To that note, EFC’s coaches will take on group programs as long as each student is struggling with similar challenges and work well together.
Where do executive functions sessions take place?
Due to stay-at-home restrictions, all executive functions skills sessions take place through Zoom, Google Meet, or Ding Talk. We work with students all over the country and world and found that online meetings offer flexibility in an increasingly busy virtual learning environment.
Who is a good fit for executive functions coaching?
At EFC, individuals of all backgrounds. Whether you have obstacles in school, your daily life, professional life, or anything else, executive functions skills training can help you.
How can college students improve executive functioning?
Much like students in middle or high school, an executive functions coach would work with a college student on strategies that establish more concise structure in their college curriculum and personal life. This means adapting tools like calendaring, alarms, reminders, to-do list, post-it notes, journalling, meditation, etc.
Can executive functions sessions take place in person?
Executive Functions Coach will have a home office set up starting March 2021 and will be welcoming students to come for in-person sessions.
Will Executive Functions Coach make home visits?
Executive functions coaching sessions can take place at your home. Pricing for home visits depends on the location of the visit. Additional cost can range anywhere between $25-$75 per session.
How long does an executive functions skills program take?
Our suggested monthly programs are 6 hours a month. Typically students that work with an executive functions coach will see results in the first 2 months and will have retained results after the first 6 months. Independence and autonomy over your executive functions skills take time and effort but is achievable when the work is put in.
How do adults learn executive functioning?
Adults learn executive functioning skills much like students. When a coach works with a student, we usually use the preset structure of school to help them learn and adapt tools for long-term independence. With adults, we use goal-orientated coaching strategies to develop goals, structure around those goals, and adapt strategies to accomplish those goals. We use goals to help adults struggling with executive functions to learn the strategies they need for long-term independence and continued growth.
How much does an executive function coach cost?
Generally at EFC, we would recommend 2 hours a week with an executive function coach. This will compose one 1 hour strategy session focused on skills that can help improve structure in the students studies and personal life followed by two 30 minute check-ins to hold the students accountable for the strategies being taught. Our hourly rate is $175 an hour. We encourage longer term commitments from our families as EF coaching is a process that takes time. We incentivize these commitments by offering discounts (15% for 3 months and 20% for 6 months).
How much does an ADHD coach cost?
Although executive functions coaches are not limited to just helping students and adults with ADHD, clients with attention deficits do make up a large part of our client population. Cost for ADHD coaching is the same as executive functions coaching.
Is executive functions coaching covered by insurance?
Unfortunately all of our services are self-paid and not covered by insurance.
Have Questions About Executive Functions Skills?
View our FAQ below!
What are the 7 executive functions?
The 7 executive functions are remembering information, keeping our lives organized, planning and breaking down tasks, controlling our emotions, initiating and transitioning tasks, controlling our impulses, and setting goals and monitoring our progress.
What are executive function skills?
Executive functioning skills are our ability to perform purposeful, goal-orientated behaviors in an unstructured environment. Read our blog “What Are Executive Functioning Skills?”
What are signs of poor executive functioning?
Common signs of poor executive functioning in students and adults are having a hard time initiating a task, completing a task by a deadline, turning in a task, expressing emotions, shifting between tasks, difficulties with problem solving and critical thinking, and impulse control.
Who is a good fit for executive functions coaching?
At EFC, individuals of all backgrounds. Whether you have obstacles in school, your daily life, professional life, or anything else, executive functions skills training can help you.
How can college students improve executive functioning?
Much like students in middle or high school, an executive functions coach would work with a college student on strategies that establish more concise structure in their college curriculum and personal life. This means adapting tools like calendaring, alarms, reminders, to-do list, post-it notes, journalling, meditation, etc.
How do adults learn executive functioning?
Adults learn executive functioning skills much like students. When a coach works with a student, we usually use the preset structure of school to help them learn and adapt tools for long-term independence. With adults, we use goal-orientated coaching strategies to develop goals, structure around those goals, and adapt strategies to accomplish those goals. We use goals to help adults struggling with executive functions to learn the strategies they need for long-term independence and continued growth.
What does an executive functions coach do?
An executive functions coach (EFC) works with a student to establish structure in their personal and academic lives for long-term independence.
What age group does Executive Functions Coach serve?
Individuals find an executive functions coach to be helpful at all stages of their life. Many of us can remember a time where we are overwhelmed and our brains just stopped working. Executive function skills training can help you prevent that.
How do executive functioning sessions work?
Every student of ours comes from a different background, so we always start with a 15 minute consultation to answer any general questions about executive functioning coaching. After that, we will schedule a session to run through some simple executive functioning strategies and end it with feedback and our suggested gameplan. From there, we like to structure one strategy session and either 1-3 check in sessions. This usually results in 1.5-2.5 hours a week with an executive functions coach.
Do executive functions coaches hold group sessions?
At EFC, we believe in an individualized approach to training executive function skills, but we also understand that group sessions are more budget-friendly. To that note, EFC’s coaches will take on group programs as long as each student is struggling with similar challenges and work well together.
Where do executive functions sessions take place?
Due to stay-at-home restrictions, all executive functions skills sessions take place through Zoom, Google Meet, or Ding Talk. We work with students all over the country and world and found that online meetings offer flexibility in an increasingly busy virtual learning environment.
Can executive functions sessions take place in person?
Executive Functions Coach will have a home office set up starting March 2021 and will be welcoming students to come for in-person sessions.
Will Executive Functions Coach make home visits?
Executive functions coaching sessions can take place at your home. Pricing for home visits depends on the location of the visit. Additional cost can range anywhere between $25-$75 per session.
How long does an executive functions skills program take?
Our suggested monthly programs are 6 hours a month. Typically students that work with an executive functions coach will see results in the first 2 months and will have retained results after the first 6 months. Independence and autonomy over your executive functions skills take time and effort but is achievable when the work is put in.
How much does an executive functions coach cost?
Generally at EFC, we would recommend 2 hours a week with an executive function coach. This will compose one 1 hour strategy session focused on skills that can help improve structure in the students studies and personal life followed by two 30 minute check-ins to hold the students accountable for the strategies being taught. Our hourly rate is $150 an hour. We encourage longer term commitments from our families as EF coaching is a process. We incentivize these commitments by offering discounts (15% for a month, 20% for 3 months, and 30% for 6 months).
How much does an ADHD coach cost?
Although executive functions coaches are not limited to just helping students and adults with ADHD, clients with attention deficits do make up a large part of our client population. Cost for ADHD coaching is the same as executive functions coaching.
Is executive functions coaching covered by insurance?
Unfortunately all of our services are self-paid and not covered by insurance.
