Getting Along With Others: Talking with Customers

Customers are important to every company. That's because companies exist to provide them with goods and services. Communicating effectively with customers is an important skill to have as a professional and will help you create good relationships with them. Here are five tips that will help you talk to customers [...]

By |2018-08-31T10:55:03-05:00August 31st, 2018|Life Skills, Soft Skills, Workplace Readiness|Comments Off on Getting Along With Others: Talking with Customers

Teaching Commitment Ethic: Setting Goals

Everyone spends much of their life seeking certain goals. The parts that drives people toward these goals is called the Goal Seeking Mechanism. This natural method of achievement is wasted when you aren’t clear about your goals. Clear goal-setting allows you to take advantage of your Goal Seeking Mechanism—it harnesses [...]

By |2018-08-27T10:36:05-05:00August 27th, 2018|Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Commitment Ethic: Setting Goals

Teaching Commitment Ethic: Motivation

The word motivation comes from a Latin word meaning "to move". Do you ever wonder why some people achieve lofty goals? It is motivation, pure and simple. Once motivation has been created, commitment takes over to help realize the goal. Here are 3 components to teach your students about motivation: [...]

By |2018-08-20T11:08:20-05:00August 20th, 2018|Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Commitment Ethic: Motivation

Getting Along with Others: Build a Relationship with Your Supervisor

Your relationship with your supervisor, or manager, is a key factor in determining happiness in your job. You will want to put forth effort in this relationship from the beginning of your new job. A great way to do this is to meet with your supervisor or manager sometime during [...]

By |2018-08-17T10:07:21-05:00August 17th, 2018|Soft Skills, Workplace Readiness|Comments Off on Getting Along with Others: Build a Relationship with Your Supervisor

Teaching Commitment: Project Commitments

In addition to commitment regarding interpersonal relationships, you should teach your students to develop project commitments. Project commitments are commitments that are made in relationship to an activity that needs to be completed. They're related to achieving a desired goal, like acing a test or raising one’s grades. Here are [...]

By |2018-08-13T08:59:00-05:00August 13th, 2018|Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Commitment: Project Commitments

Workplace Readiness: Getting Along with Others

We live in a world where teamwork is an essential part of success in the workplace. So in your new position, you will be expected to communicate with others and complete projects as part of a team. As a result, you will regularly be evaluated based upon how well you [...]

By |2018-08-10T11:09:32-05:00August 10th, 2018|Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, Soft Skills, Workplace Readiness|Comments Off on Workplace Readiness: Getting Along with Others

Teaching Commitment to Self

In order to teach commitment ethic to your students, you have to teach them to have commitment to themselves. But people often look elsewhere when trying to improve themselves. Self-help books, support groups and therapy sessions are held out as the path to personal improvement. Yet any reputable self-help provider [...]

By |2018-08-06T10:23:33-05:00August 6th, 2018|Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Commitment to Self
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