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Enhance Your College/Career Readiness Program with “Soft Skills”

Enhance Your College/Career Readiness Program with “Soft Skills”. Dennis Trittin and Arlyn Lawrence LifeSmart Publishing, LLC. Are You Preparing College- and Career-Ready Students?.

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Enhance Your College/Career Readiness Program with “Soft Skills”

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  1. Enhance Your College/Career Readiness Program with “Soft Skills” Dennis Trittin and Arlyn Lawrence LifeSmart Publishing, LLC

  2. Are You Preparing College- and Career-Ready Students? Universities and employers are looking for well-prepared high school graduates who are ready to take on the challenges and responsibilities of higher level academics and the workplace.

  3. Will They Get This?

  4. Or This?

  5. Let’s Look at the Facts Fact #1: Among the top eighteen industrialized nations in the world, the United States ranks ninth in the world in enrollment but dead lastin completion rates.

  6. Fact #2: The teen jobless rate in the U.S. has been over 20% for five years (currently 24.1%). Many employers say, when given a choice, they prefer to hire older applicants due to the lack of work ethic and reliability in young people.

  7. Fact #3: According to colleges and employers, young adults are less than successful at college and in the workplace not for lack of academic knowledge, but for lack of “soft skills” like endurance, self-reliance, communication, resourcefulness, and problem-solving.

  8. What are “soft skills?”They include: • Strategic perspective and focus • Character and ethics • Relationship building and communication • Personal productivity/discipline • Modeling the qualities employers value

  9. Establishing a Personal Leadership Foundation

  10. Strategic Perspective and Focus

  11. Desired Outcomes: • Sense of vision and purpose • Holistic definition of “success” • Positive outlook and attitude • Other-centeredness

  12. Character and Ethics

  13. Desired Outcomes: • Commitment to excellence • Non-negotiable integrity • Modeling qualities of honorable leaders • Demonstrating self-discipline and respect

  14. Relationship Building and Communication

  15. Desired Outcomes: • Building healthy friendships • Being an encouraging team player • Respectful and adaptable communications • Listening to understand

  16. Personal Productivity and Discipline

  17. Desired Outcomes: • Effective goal setting and time management • Objective decision making • Strong learning disciplines • Perseverance through stress and adversity

  18. Modeling the Qualities Employers Value

  19. Desired Outcomes: • Effective goal setting and time management • Objective decision making • Strong learning disciplines • Excellence in everything

  20. The What I Wish I Knew at 18 Life Skills and Leadership Course targets these vital topics with relevant insight, instruction, and application

  21. FinancialLiteracy Speaking to Your Program Needs Collegeand Career Readiness Leadership AchievementGap Life Skills Soft Skills Life Literacy Developmental Assets School culture Graduation Rates

  22. What I Wish I Knew at 18 Comprehensive vision for a successful launch into adulthood Personal leadership and life skills Wisdom for key decisions based on the ways of honorable leaders Conversationally and universally written for young and old alike

  23. About the Course • Generally for upper high school grades but easily adapted to lower grades • 9- or 18-week program • Free downloadable leader’s guide with lesson planning tools and resources • High level of flexibility for facilitators • Invaluable, relevant, and interactive content • Targets key concepts that promote life readiness

  24. Sample Lessons Student Guide • Recognize that First Impressions are Huge – Page 43 • Become a Masterful Decision-Maker – Page 58 • Demonstrate the Qualities Employers Value – Page 88

  25. Versatile Resources to Support Your Objectives • Core curriculum (or supplemental resource) for leadership/life skills, family, college/career readiness, and relationship courses • Resource for student mentoring • Summer reading book for all students • Student Advisory and At-Risk resource • Designed to improve student performance and school culture

  26. Contact Information • Available at dennistrittin.com, Amazon, AtlasBooks, bookstores • Contact: Dennis Trittin, President and CEO: • (920) 319-3169 (mobile) • dtrittin@dennistrittin.com • Bulk pricing and discounts • Weekly newsletter, Facebook, and Twitter

  27. THANK YOU for building the next generation of honorable leaders.We salute you!

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