The coaches listed below offer a wide range of age support, from students to adults. These skills are essential for managing learning, thoughts, actions, and emotions to achieve long-term goals. Here’s a closer look at how our coaches tailor their approach:
Enhance Working Memory
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Students: Our coaches use interactive and enjoyable videos and activities designed to help students develop fun and engaging memory strategies to encode, retrieve, and apply information efficiently, thus enhancing their memory and information management skills.
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Adults: The approach for adults focuses on practical techniques, including mnemonic devices, visualization, and chunking information for better retention. Adults are also introduced to tools and strategies that help organize and manage professional and personal responsibilities.
Master Inhibitory Control
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Students: Students learn techniques that boost focus, metacognition skills, and self-regulation. In addition, fun, structured instruction and activities offer direct application to learning. Coaches help students develop patience to think before acting and the discipline to maintain focus on tasks.
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Adults: Adults learn to enhance their inhibitory control through exercises that promote reflective thinking, stress management, and the development of self-discipline. Strategies may involve time-blocking, the use of productivity apps, and methods to combat procrastination, enabling greater self-control and discipline in both their work and personal lives.
Cultivate Cognitive Flexibility
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Students: Through creative problem-solving exercises, students learn to adjust their thinking and strategies in response to new challenges and obstacles, fostering adaptability and resilience.
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Adults: For adults, cognitive flexibility is developed through scenario planning and engaging in reflective practices that challenge existing thought patterns so they are more adept at navigating change, new situations, and daily routines.
Refine Advanced Executive Functions
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Students: Advanced skills such as planning, time management, and critical reasoning are taught through age-appropriate methods like visual schedules, defining microtasks, spaced repetition, and discussions that promote reflective thinking and reasoning.
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Adults: Adults work on refining these skills through more complex tasks and scenarios, focusing on enhancing their ability to plan effectively, manage time efficiently, and engage in critical reasoning. Coaches offer strategies for setting long-term goals, prioritizing tasks, and utilizing analytical skills for problem-solving, laying the foundation for academic and professional excellence.
Build Effective Study Skills
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Students: Developing strong study habits begins with teaching students how to organize their study space, use agendas to track homework and tests, and employ active learning strategies like summarizing and teaching back the material. These techniques ensure they can absorb and retain information more effectively, leading to improved learning outcomes.
