Strengths-in-Context
Reflection

ADHD Executive Function Tools

Explore possible strengths through specific examples
and plan how to use them with intention.

Where This Tool Helps

Start with specific examples of work, relationships, learning, or problem-solving that went well. The suggested categories are hypotheses to consider, not ADHD traits and not a promise that any category applies to you.

Keep only strengths supported by your own examples. Use the leverage column to identify a condition or support that may help you use one strength deliberately.

The structure below surfaces where your possible strengths actually show up — not in theory, but in your real work and life — and then asks the harder question: are you in roles and environments where those strengths are actually deployed?

How to Use This Worksheet

  1. Read each suggested category as a hypothesis. These are not ADHD traits or promises that a category applies. Keep only categories supported by your own examples.
  2. Use specific examples in “How this shows up for me.” Not “I’m creative” — but “I consistently generate three angles on a problem where colleagues generate one.” Specificity is what makes the strength usable in coaching.
  3. The leverage column is where the real work is. A strength without a deployment strategy is just a fact about yourself. The leverage question turns it into something actionable.
  4. Do not dismiss a strength because it is inconsistent. Record the circumstances in which it appeared and the supports that may help you use it again.
  5. Bring this to your next session. The leverage column is where your coach can help most — identifying structures, roles, or environments where your specific strengths are reliably called upon.
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Strengths-in-Context Reflection

Creativity & Lateral Thinking

The ability to generate novel ideas, make unexpected connections, and see angles that others miss.

How this shows up for me
How I can leverage this
Focus When Engaged

A time when sustained attention came more easily, and the conditions that were present.

How this shows up for me
How I can leverage this
Momentum & Initiative

A time when you initiated or sustained useful momentum on something that mattered to you.

How this shows up for me
How I can leverage this
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Strengths-in-Context Reflection (continued)

Recovery After Setbacks

A time when you recovered, adjusted, or continued after a setback.

How this shows up for me
How I can leverage this
Problem-Solving in Context

A time when you found a workable option in a demanding or changing situation.

How this shows up for me
How I can leverage this
Attention to People & Relationships

A time when noticing another person or the relationship helped you respond usefully.

How this shows up for me
How I can leverage this
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Strengths-in-Context Reflection (continued)

Adaptability in Context

A time when changing course or working with uncertainty was useful.

How this shows up for me
How I can leverage this

Before Your Next Session

1. Underutilized strengths. Which two or three strengths in this worksheet are most underused in your current role or environment? What is the cost of that mismatch?

2. Your last best performance. Think about the last time you performed at your best. Which of the strengths in this worksheet were in play? What conditions made that possible?

3. What would need to change. What would need to shift — in your role, your structure, or your environment — for your top two strengths to show up reliably, not just occasionally?

Notes & Observations
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