Communication – The Human connection – Is the Key to Personal and Career Success Paul J. Meyer Communication is a two-way street. This means that both the person communicating and the person being communicated to have to participate. Communication happens when information is shared between two people. Since communication [...]
Download our Infographic on Soft Skills! 2/ 3 of Success in the Workplace is Soft Skills Why are soft skills and soft skill assessments important for business? Read the facts below and see for yourself. Understanding soft skills (or emotional intelligence) and how it contributes to any work organization [...]
Resiliency is the tenth in our twelve-part series on our Personal Responsibility Map®, which is a core assessment in our Personal Responsibility—Achieving Academic and Career Goals™ program. Resiliency is the ability to work through activities and cause bottom-line results to happen. Resiliency to many is the ability to bounce back [...]
The focus of this blog is on the use of our Personal Responsibility Map® and skill intervention system in helping at-risk students to identify and develop key emotional intelligence skills for success in school and life. Personal Responsibility—Achieving Academic and Career Goals™ is a research-based assessment and skill intervention system [...]
The US Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced that only two out of ten individuals with a disability are able to find and keep a job. I ask myself, “Why is this?” This simple question has no simple answer. There are many reasons that can cause a 20% employment rate [...]
Self-management is the amount to which people manage their own time, talents and abilities and use these on clear, achievable goals. MTSS and Self-Management Multi-Tiered System of Supports, or MTSS, is a term used to describe an evidence-based model of schooling that uses data-based problem solving to integrate academic and [...]
The focus of this blog is on the all-important social/emotional learning skill of self-control, which is the seventh scale of twelve in the Personal Responsibility Map®, a core assessment in our Personal Responsibility—Achieving Academic and Career Goals program. Self-control is the ability to handle personal feelings and emotions in difficult [...]
Student retention is a primary concern for all post-secondary institutions. In a study conducted by the Research Department of the Minnesota House of Representatives on community college retention, 55% of new, entering students drop out of college by their second year of enrollment (Finc & Lehnertz, 1991). To address this [...]
A computer is made up of two main components: Hardware and software. Both are necessary for the computer to operate successfully. Without hardware your computer would not exist and software would have nothing to run on, and without software, you would simply have a machine, incapable of performing any kind of [...]
Supportive Environment is the amount to which friends, family, teachers and others around us value high achievement and positively encourage people in their goals. A supportive environment is a critical factor in the MTSS process. Multi-Tiered System of Supports, or MTSS, is a term used to describe an evidence-based model [...]