Executive Function Insights & Ideas
A Parents’ Guide to Managing Social Media
As parents, it's crucial to be proactive about monitoring and limiting our children's digital habits. Unrestricted access to apps, games, and social networks can quickly lead to unhealthy behavioral patterns. Here are some effective strategies to help reduce your child's screen time.
Celebrating Innovation: The How Skills Recognized in the 2024 Microsoft Supplier Prestige Awards
In the technology landscape that shapes inclusivity and redefines boundaries, the 2024 Microsoft Supplier Prestige Awards spotlights organizations driving transformative change. The How Skills was honored as a finalist for “Showstopper of the Year: Amplifying Accessibility.”
How to Prioritize Inclusion in Job Seeking
When searching for a new job, it can be difficult to determine if the role and company is a good fit based on the job posting. Here are some tips to help you find clarity and the information you need in navigating your job search.
Make Space for Success: Optimize Your Environment, Achieve Your Goals
If you've been struggling with getting things done, it might be time to take a look at your workspace. Your environment has a significant impact on how you feel and there are little changes you can make that will have a big impact.
Executive Function Skills for the New Semester
If classes started back up last week or a couple of weeks ago, now is your chance to start the semester off right with executive function skills. If last semester didn’t go as planned, it is not too late to reset your academic year.
A SMARTer Approach to Your Resolutions
If you are tired of setting resolutions that you don’t end up achieving, consider using the SMART goal model.
Holiday Harmony: Craft a Seamless Transition with a Year-End Wrap-Up System
As you try to wrap up projects, tasks, and communications going into the holiday season, make sure you have a system to remember where you left off when coming back in the new year.
Summer Reading List 2023
Summer is a great time to pick up a book to learn more about how we can better understand ourselves and others to build a more inclusive world. Here's a few great books within the field of disability studies, accessibility, and inclusion that our coaches can't put down this summer.
How to Stop Procrastinating When "I Just Need to Do It" Isn't Working
Stop trying to “just do it”. Unfortunately, people with ADHD, autism, and other neurodiversity are often told they need to "have a better work ethic" or "just do it." This usually doesn't work. Research has shown that having systems and strategies to stop procrastination can be a critical piece of the puzzle that is often missing. Here are some strategies that work well for many people:
How to Create Structure to Help Your Kids Learn at Home
Bring school structures home. With the increased number of states announcing no return to school this year, many parents are facing the reality that they will be at home with their students until at least the fall. With this being the “new normal” for now, it is more important than ever that we build systems that support our students learning and wellbeing, as well as our ability to continue working and maintaining our sanity.
How to Be Productive While You Work from Home
As the initial excitement that some felt about working from home wears off and some of the complications of working from home set in, it is more important than ever to invest in how to make it productive and sustainable. Here are some strategies that work well for many professionals.
Dealing with Change: Structures and Strategies
Structure and consistency. Life for all of us just took a dramatic shift – a shift that most of us weren’t expecting and didn’t have time to prepare for. In this time of chaos and uncertainty, we need intentional routines. Here are some strategies that work well for many people:.