ADD Coaching and ADD Planner - A Great Combination!

ADD Planner is the only software planner specifically designed to address the challenges of ADD. ADD Planner can also help ADD Coaches be more effective, and create noticeable improvement for their clients. Here's how:

Making Clients Accountable And Encouraging Compliance With Emailable Planner Files

No matter how well your weekly calls with clients go, what really matters is what happens after they hang up the phone. And, until now, there hasn't been a convenient, accurate way to really tell what your clients have been up to during the week.

With ADD Planner, your clients can give you a picture of what they've been doing that week, and what they are planning to do, by emailing you their planner files. Unlike other planners that are tied to a "One User - One File" architecture, ADD Planner is designed specifically to allow planner files to shared. Asking clients to email you their ADD Planner file before their meeting helps make them accountable, and encourages them to follow through on their commitments.

Working with client's planner files must be done sensitively and supportively. But when you get clients on board with reporting everything that's on their plate, you and they gain three important leverage points. First, you know how your client's life is going, week to week, and with that depth of information you'll be more able to create real change in their life. Second, your clients know that you're following along with what they're doing, and that knowledge creates a sense of contact with you throughout the week. Third, and maybe most more important, you get your clients into the habit of consistently using a planner!

Improving Client Self-Reporting With Task Notes

People with ADD can be notoriously poor self-reporters. In the moment, they may know that they find a particular activity grueling, but let a few days go by, and their irrepressibly optimistic natures will conveniently erase all memory of that unfortunate unpleasantness from their minds!

ADD Planner's notes field can be used for self-reporting on the ease or difficulty of a task, and when you review your client's week, you can easily see where your client's challenges lie.

Helping Clients Learn How To Plan By Breaking Down Projects Into Manageable Pieces

People with ADD are primarily right-brained, lateral thinkers who can find planning large projects difficult. One major reason for this is simply because their minds don't work the same way that a non-ADD person's. The ADD brain doesn't think from A to B to C - it thinks from A to Z to 42, and everywhere in between!

ADD Planner supports this lateral, holistic way of conceiving projects through a graphical tree project planner called the Project View. Using this non-linear tool, your clients can work in a "round-robin" fashion to break big projects down into managable pieces. Even better, you can collaboratively work on breaking down a project while both of you look at your client's project on your separate computers!

Sharing Strategies For Success With Portable Planner Templates

Those of us with ADD who are "high functioning" don't necessarily have a less severe form of ADD, we just have better coping strategies. But all of us can put better systems and strategies in place that will help us function better and be happier.

ADD Planner can be a real help in this area. You can develop a strategy to help one of your clients, and transfer it right to their planner, with everything your client needs to be successful. Not only that, but you can save this strategy as a "Template Task", so you can use it over and over with future clients!

Enabling Clients To Stay On Track, Get Places On Time, And Manage Focus And Transitions

ADD Planner was conceived specifically to help people with ADD address their ADD issues, such as distractability, inconsistent time sense, variable focus, and difficulty making transitions. To learn more about how ADD Planner helps people with ADD, click the What It Can Do link.