You need the executive functioning skills. There are 12 of them and we will dive in to explain what each means and how you can identify your strengths and weaknesses at the same time.
What the Executive Functionint Skills?
- Time Management-The capacity to estimate how much time one has, how to allocate it, and how to stay within time limits and deadlines. It also involves a sense that time is important.
- Flexibility-The ability to revise plans in the face of obstacles, setbacks, new information, or mistakes. It relates to an adaptability to changing conditions.
- Metacognition-The ability to stand back and view yourself in a situation. It is an ability to observe how you solve problems. It includes self-monitoring and self-evaluative skills.
- Goal Directed Persistence-The capacity to have a goal, folllow through the completion of the goal, and not be put off by or distracted by competing interest.
- Stress Tolerance- The ability to thrive in stressful situations and to cope with uncertainty, change, and performance demands.
- Response Inhibition-
- Working Memory-The ability to hold information in memory while performing complex tasks. It incorporates the ability to draw on past learning or experioence to apply to the situation at hand or to project into the future.
- Emotional Control-The ability to manage emotionsto achieve goals, complete tasks, or control and direct behavior.
- Task Initiation-The ability to begin projects without undue procrastinations, in an efficient or timely fasion.
- Sustained Attention- The capacity to keep attention on a situation or task in spite of distractability, fatugue or boredom.
- Planning/Prioritizing-The ability to create a road mapto reach a goal or to complete a task. It also invloves being able to make a decision about what's important to focus on and what's not important.
- Organization-The ability to create and maintain systems to keep track of informaiton or materials.
What are the skills that you are good at?
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