About Mike Schmitz

Mike is the President of the Conover Company, an assessment company that focuses on transition, social/emotional learning, and independent living skills.

How to Make the Most Out Of Professional Networking Opportunities

  Networking opportunities arise pretty often in the professional sphere. While you may think your business card says more than enough about who you are and what you do, preparing to introduce yourself with your professional information is a great way to make a lasting impression. In this [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:23-05:00February 3rd, 2016|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|Comments Off on How to Make the Most Out Of Professional Networking Opportunities

Controlling Your Emotions & Keeping Your Cool at Work

Controlling your emotions means you’re keeping emotions in check in the workplace. That includes not losing your temper! Learning how to control your emotions takes time, but once you learn it, you’ll experience a better workplace.   In this video, listen to what the manager says. How did [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:23-05:00January 25th, 2016|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Controlling Your Emotions & Keeping Your Cool at Work

How Active Listening Improves Job Performance

Active listening means you’re concentrating on what the other person is saying and asking follow-up questions if you don’t understand. Learning how to actively listen to someone may take time. However, practicing how to listen and respond is an important soft skill for the workplace.   In this [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:23-05:00January 21st, 2016|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|Comments Off on How Active Listening Improves Job Performance

What Good Flexibility Looks Like At Work

  Flexibility is a willingness to change or compromise. In many cases, it means adjusting your own plans for your time to accommodate a need or opportunity to assist project coworker. It is not a skill that comes naturally to many people as it requires putting aside your [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:23-05:00January 12th, 2016|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|Comments Off on What Good Flexibility Looks Like At Work

6 Media Rules You Should Never Break at Work

Technology allows us to do things more easily and faster than ever before. For businesses, that means employees can do their jobs more easily, which saves time and money.  On the other hand, with this new technology comes new guidelines, or rules, on how to use it properly in the [...]

By |2017-04-30T16:18:23-05:00January 11th, 2016|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|Comments Off on 6 Media Rules You Should Never Break at Work

6 Types of Communication

Perhaps no hard or soft skill gets as much blame when social situations break down as communication. It’s pretty common to hear disagreements end with “You’re just not communicating well,” or “It must have been a miscommunication.” Understanding communication For its apparent necessity, communication doesn’t always include a huge margin [...]

By |2018-03-13T12:51:09-05:00November 30th, 2015|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|Comments Off on 6 Types of Communication

How J.K Rowling Succeeded with Soft Skills

Primary Soft Skills: Resiliency, Drive Strength / Motivation “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.” - JK Rowling The creator of Harry Potter didn’t even have a [...]

By |2020-09-10T11:29:50-05:00October 21st, 2015|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|Comments Off on How J.K Rowling Succeeded with Soft Skills

How Martin Luther King Jr. Succeeded with Soft Skills

Known For: minister, humanitarian, activist, and leader of the Civil Rights Movement Primary Soft Skills: Empathy, Resiliency, Communication Skills, Attitude, Drive Strength/Motivation The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. [...]

By |2021-04-20T11:24:01-05:00September 17th, 2015|Corporate, Education, Soft Skills|Comments Off on How Martin Luther King Jr. Succeeded with Soft Skills
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