About Terry Schmitz

Terry Schmitz is the founder and owner of The Conover Company. Terry has been involved in the development of assessments for both education and corporations for over 30 years. He has developed hundreds of job-specific assessment systems that link to skill building systems.

Social Skills: Helping Customers

Many jobs require employees to work with customers or clients. Your students need to start developing their communication skills so they can successfully interact with customers when required to do so. The quality of customer service is an important factor clients consider when making decisions about where to shop or [...]

By |2019-10-01T09:25:20-05:00September 6th, 2019|Emotional Intelligence, Soft Skills, Workplace Readiness|Comments Off on Social Skills: Helping Customers

Social Skills: Why Your Students Need Them

Success in the workplace is not just determined by who works the hardest or does the "best job". Technical skills and knowledge are useful, but being able to build relationships with people is critical to succeeding in the workplace. Social skills are what enable people to talk to and connect [...]

By |2019-10-01T08:40:10-05:00July 22nd, 2019|Soft Skills, Workplace Readiness|Comments Off on Social Skills: Why Your Students Need Them

Teaching Time Management: Tools

Successful time management requires planning. Knowing your goals and priorities is important, but knowing the steps between setting your goal and reaching it is absolutely essential. Time management experts have developed many tools for helping people plan and reach their goals.  Here are three tools you can use to teach [...]

By |2019-05-24T11:36:29-05:00May 24th, 2019|Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Time Management: Tools

Teaching Time Management: Planning

Nothing beats the satisfaction of coming to the end of the day and feeling like it was successful. Planning and managing your time makes this possible. Planning ahead is one of the most important things your students can do in time management. Successful people always plan ahead. If you want [...]

By |2019-05-06T15:44:10-05:00May 6th, 2019|Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Time Management: Planning

Teaching Interpersonal Awareness: Listening

In order to teach your students interpersonal awareness, you have to teach them how to listen. Listening is a primary communication activity used by all people and is central to the personal, social and educational and workplace success of every person. One of the best ways to improve interpersonal awareness [...]

By |2019-04-03T14:18:25-05:00April 1st, 2019|Education, Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Interpersonal Awareness: Listening

Anxiety Management: The Impact of Self-Control

Increasing your level of self-control will bring positive change to your life and help you manage your anxiety. But, how exactly will your life change? In this post, you will discover the impact that greater self-control will have on your life. Let's look at the following topics related to the impact [...]

By |2019-03-15T10:51:14-05:00March 8th, 2019|Anxiety Management, Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Anxiety Management: The Impact of Self-Control
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