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Executive Functioning Issues

Luftmentsch

Does anyone have any tips for struggling with executive functioning issues?  At work I often have to enter data on multiple databases or spreadsheets at the same time and I often end up forgetting to enter some data on one or other of these.  I've tried writing notes for myself and double-checking everything and I still struggle with it.  I'm just not good at having to do multiple things at once and forget things.  So far my boss has been OK with it (I've been in the job for about fifteen months), but I worry he'll expect me to improve sooner or later.  If anyone has any advice, I would be grateful.

  • in reply to Clumsywitch

    Thanks, I'll bear it in mind, although I'm not sure how easy it would be given the size of my desk (very small) and the layout of the office (also small, so I can't really ask for a bigger desk).

    I do use the find option, yes, although usually to find data already in the system rather than to check if I've entered it.

  • Hi. I have to do some of this type of thing and having an extra screen has made a huge difference, especially for copying and pasting. If I have data from hard copy to enter I sometimes just take a photograph of it and convert it to a PDF, then have that showing on the 2nd screen so I can see it side-by-side with the document I’m working on and can copy it over. If it won’t copy I can strike it through when I’ve entered it. If it doesn‘t capture properly then I’ll do like mentioned below and use a ruler for each line then cross it off when it’s entered. It doesn’t always work if I’m getting stressed about it all and have to spend ages checking it but it works most of the time. 

    If you were worried you’d missed some data you could use the find option and check it’s been entered? I do that sometimes and it helps me.

  • Like others have said a checklist may work best for you, I do this for some tasks, it is also good to see a full list so that I know I have achieved something that day.

  • in reply to Luftmentsch

    There is scan to data technology that can be implemented to make your job easier. its just and ordinary scanner or photos from phone and it automatically makes a Microsoft document . 

  • in reply to Blue

    Interesting, thank you.  I do copy data on Excel.  I will think about whether an additional screen would help, although some of the data I'm entering is from hard copy.

  • Their are EXCEL or ACCESS shortcuts that can literally copy and place information and data. Their is also adaptive software that can be used to store information shortly. a reasonable adjustment may mean that you need an additional computer screen which makes the world of different when analysing and scripting information oe coding. 

    Access to work need to be contacted and a meeting scheduled with your employer to help get funding and make reasonable adaptions. just be careful some of the people working for the DWP are As*holes.  

  • I struggle with new things on the computer. For example our system has recently been updated. When someone tells me what to do I write it down in the minutest detail and keep a book for this.

    It does help that I now work from home as I then read out loud each stage as I do it.

  • in reply to Luis

    I'm doing something similar already, but maybe I could make it more systematic.

  • I don’t know what your job is so maybe this is not applicable but, have you tried checklists?

    For example if data type A needs to be entered in DBs 1,3 and 5, and data type B in 4,5 and 6, maybe make checklists for each type of data, and once you identify which type of data it is, go methodically through the checklist until you finish and move on to the next.