Here's How We Help

What do we do?
WorkSmart Coaching offers Executive Function coaching to help adults improve their lives and achieve daily goals at work and at home through one-on-one, virtual coaching.

How do we do it?
Our evidence-based coaching methods have flourished from the nearly 20 years of insights gained from successful client coaching to help adults learn and apply Executive Function skills.

What are Executive Function skills?
Executive Functions are life management skills that we all need in order to be effective in planning, initiating, and achieving daily goals at home and in the workplace. They are trainable and coachable with time and the right tools.

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Common problems we solve

At WorkSmart Coaching, we support struggling adults, providing them with tools and strategies for lifelong success. Here are some of the common problems we help solve:

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Coaches help to identify and customize tools for you, depending on your preferences and specific challenges. From making a specific plan to use new strategies and tools to following up with you to increase accountability for the improvements you want to see, our coaches will reflect with you to identify wins, understand roadblocks, and revise plans to help you move toward success. For time management support, our coaches can collaborate with you on: 
  • Utilizing specific apps and tools to increase time awareness and improve project planning 
  • Improving estimation of time needed for tasks 
  • Developing methods for handling unexpected scenarios which compromise available time 
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Coaches help to identify and customize tools for you, depending on your preferences and specific challenges. From making a specific plan to use new strategies and tools to following up with you to increase accountability for the improvements you want to see, our coaches will reflect with you to identify wins, understand roadblocks, and revise plans to help you move toward success. To prioritize getting -- and staying! -- organized, our coaches can support you in:
  • Exploring and identifying effective organizational systems that work for you, personally
  • Evaluating the consequences of disorganization and developing new organizational habits 
  • Determining when you can problem-solve an organizational issue and when you need to call upon support from others to help you manage
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Coaches help to identify and customize tools for you, depending on your preferences and specific challenges. From making a specific plan to use new strategies and tools to following up with you to increase accountability for the improvements you want to see, our coaches will reflect with you to identify wins, understand roadblocks, and revise plans to help you move toward success. To optimize your productivity and combat procrastination, our coaches can support you in:
  • Analyzing the root causes of procrastination -- such as perfectionism -- in order to develop appropriate strategies for productivity
  • Exploration and support with tools and techniques to improve focus, manage challenging tasks, and avoid reliance on ineffective coping mechanisms
  • Identifying procrastination triggers to enable to you be proactive in response to them
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Coaches help to identify and customize tools for you, depending on your preferences and challenges. We help you make a specific plan to use new strategies and follow up with you to help you be accountable for the improvements you want to see. Your coach will reflect with you to identify where you had won and why you had roadblocks. You see your progress alongside your coach, who is deeply invested in your success. Your coach will work with you to:
  • Identify your optimal focus environment and times
  • Establish a toolkit of focus-enhancing apps that you can apply in different circumstances
  • Distinguish between internal and external distractions and make a plan to minimize their effects on your productivity
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Coaches help to identify and customize tools for you, depending upon your preferences and specific challenges. From making a specific plan on how to deal with stressful coworkers to using new strategies and tools and following up with you to increase accountability for the improvements you want to see, our coaches will reflect with you to identify wins, understand roadblocks, and revise plans to help you move towards success. Our coaches can collaborate with you to develop and support effective stress management techniques by: 
  • Developing perspective-taking and communication techniques to improve interpersonal skills
  • Identifying and practicing a variety of calming techniques
  • Creating a hierarchy of support to enable effective problem-solving and improve self-advocacy when you need assistance
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Coaches help to identify and customize tools for you, depending on your preferences and specific challenges. From making a specific plan to use new strategies and tools to following up with you to increase accountability for the improvements you want to see, our coaches will reflect with you to identify wins, understand roadblocks, and revise plans to help you move toward success. Our coaches can support you in developing strategies for planning and prioritizing by:
  • Developing methods for prioritizing among competing tasks 
  • Implementing appropriate strategies for planning that fit your working style and habits
  • Exploring techniques for tracking productivity to help you stick to the plan once you’ve set it in motion
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Failure to launch refers to an extended pause in the typical developmental process of a young adult. Someone who has "failed to launch" could be someone who is approaching adulthood and does not yet have a career or the education and training needed to pursue a desired path.

Executive dysfunction can be one of the biggest contributors to failure to launch. Learn more about failure to launch.

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Coaches help to identify and customize tools for you, depending on your preferences and specific challenges. From making a specific plan to use new strategies and tools to following up with you to increase accountability for the improvements you want to see, our coaches will reflect with you to identify wins, understand roadblocks, and revise plans to help you move toward success. To push through on followthrough, our coaches can support you in:
  • Understanding and capitalizing on your motivational style 
  • Introduce and explore tools and apps that can help monitor success and progress
  • Identifying and utilizing accountability partners and other support systems when appropriate
  • Breaking down tasks into manageable pieces and building in positive rewards/thinking habits to increase productivity
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Coaches help to identify and customize tools for you, depending on your preferences and specific challenges. From making a specific plan to use new strategies and tools to following up with you to increase accountability for the improvements you want to see, our coaches will reflect with you to identify wins, understand roadblocks, and revise plans to help you move toward success. For boundary-setting support, our coaches can support you in:
  • Creating physical and mental boundaries to improve focus and maintain positive relationships with coworkers and housemates 
  • Advocating for your needs to both improve communication with others at work and home and access resources to support effective functioning 
  • Implementing meaningful incentives to help you stick to your plans
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Coaches help to identify and customize tools for you, depending on your preferences and specific challenges. From making a specific plan to use new strategies and tools to following up with you to increase accountability for the improvements you want to see, our coaches will reflect with you to identify wins, understand roadblocks, and revise plans to help you move toward success. Our coaches can support you in managing your technology fatigue by:
  • Evaluating the consequences of technology aversion to develop new mindsets and approaches toward habit-changing 
  • Assessing the cost of technology fatigue to prioritize which new technologies are essential to learn (and which you can still avoid) 
  • Developing ways of advocating your boss or colleagues for the support you need to effectively learn new technologies to effectively do your job

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