“Carl, this new version 3.0 is fabulous. I really think you outdid yourself this time.” Marcie Swift, M.Ed., NCSP, West Suffield, CT
Career Coaching for Students™ is the program that students in high school or college can use to gain clarity around their talent and learn about career choices that are a good fit to their talent.
The program is offered for one-on-one and group workshops (see Upcoming Events for future workshop offerings), indivdual home use by parents with their son or daughter (see “Buy it Now” above right) and by school administrators, guidance counselors and teachers as part of a class curriculum. A facilitator’s guide and certification training is available for those wanting to deliver the content in a class or workshop setting. Career Coaching for Students™ was introduced to address the growing need in society for our students to find passion in life. With half of today’s workers unsatisfied in their career and college students changing majors an average of twice before graduating, the financial and emotional impact on students has become a national concern. There are a number of programs geared towards helping students “qualify” for college with a little “career direction” sprinkled in. Career Coaching for Students™ goes much deeper by inspiring students to find their passion, establish goals and create action plans to achieve success.
College Graduation Rates of 53%? Is there a systemic problem here?
USA Today offers an excellent article about college graduation rates. To read the full article go here.
PARENTS - You need to read this. Help students find their passion!
Success Discoveries is putting together a Career Coaching for Students™ tele-webinar workshop for students - no geographic boundaries. We’ll be using Maestro for group tele-conferences and http://www.beyond.net for viewing the facilitator’s screen. All you need is a phone, a computer with Internet connection and registration. Online registration form coming soon. or to be notified of upcoming dates of tele-webinars.
Now that version 3.0 of the student guidebook is out the door we are receiving many requests for the Train-the-Trainer workshop. I am very pleased to announce a program that is designed to create a fast-start for anyone just beginning with the Career Coaching for Students™ program. We’re timing the Train-the-Trainer program to give everyone a head start for this coming Fall.
What’s Included
Free 24-hour interactive distance learning workshop (equivelant of three full days of intensive training)
Facilitator Guide (1 per order of 25 guidebooks)
One Sample Student Guidebook
Discounted price on initial order of student guidebooks (minimum purchase of 25 student guidebooks required)
What you’ll learn
To effectively deliver all steps presented in student guidebook
How to customize the curriculum to meet your needs
The DISC assessment and behavioral model
The PIAV motivators assessment and model
How to debrief the assessment results to create student engagement and self-wisdom
How to motivate the non-motivated student
When and How to integrate RoadTrip Nation video segments
How to market the program, use the marketing collateral and leverage the Success Discoveres website
How to coach instead of teach
How to coach parents
How to leverage all of the resources on the Career Coaching for Students™ Resources website
How to help students find people in the career of interest or obtain job shadowing opportunities
How to support students beyond the scope of the program
How to leverage referrals
Carl Nielson, the creator of the Career Coaching for Students™ program will be conducting all training. Carl is a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst and Certified Professional Values Analyst and is also certified to provide DISC and PIAV certification training. Carl will make it easy to pass the exams for those wanting to become certified in the use of the two assessments used in the Career Coaching for Students™ program.
What is distance learning?
Distance learning is similar to webinars. We’ll be using Maestro for the tele-conferencing and Glance.net for desktop screen sharing. These two technologies work in tandem to deliver the ideal distance learning environment. The experience will be as good as or better than the traditional hotel-based workshop format without the cost.
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas Bring Career Coaching for Students to Youth
LOS ANGELES, May 20 Lopez-joins-BGCA-ads
EXTRA Host Unveils New “BE A STAR” Billboard on Sunset; Encourages Youth to “BE GREAT.”
Also Debuts the Campaign in Spanish
LOS ANGELES, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/—As part of Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s (BGCA) new advocacy campaign - BE GREAT - longtime TV star and Boys & Girls Club alum Mario Lopez today unveiled a new billboard on Sunset Boulevard featuring his childhood picture and the aspirational message - BE A STAR. Lopez joins some 25 prominent alumni in the new advocacy campaign to help increase public awareness and understanding about the key issues facing America’s youth, and the positive impact of Clubs.
From academic failure and gang violence to poverty, drugs and obesity, America’s young people face a daunting array of problems - with serious consequences and fewer safety nets at home and in the community.
According to a 2007 BGCA alumni survey conducted by Harris Interactive, 57 percent of alumni reported, “The Club saved my life,” while another 28 percent credited Boys & Girls Clubs with keeping them in school.
“Growing up in the Club gave me the opportunity to explore many interests and talents, including wrestling and dancing, that have profoundly influenced my life,” said Lopez. “The staff at the Club kept us focused, and instilled virtues and traits in us that remain to this day. I am excited to get this message out about the impact Boys & Girls Clubs have on young people, because I’m one of them.”
I am always asking parents what there experience has been to this point with their son or daughter and the career exploration process. Here is what one parent told me just yesterday in an e-mail. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
High School guidance counselors spend less than 30% of time helping students plan for college
This post is inspired by a posting from The Plain Dealer Metro on cleveland.com (see link to article at end of this post)
Ask Lori Gill Hughes about what she does as the lone guidance counselor at Cardinal High School, and she will barely take time for a breath as she runs through the list:
Get out the word about scholarships and make sure applicants meet the deadlines.
Send out transcripts and recommendations for college applications.
Look into tutoring and summer school for failing students.
Schedule students for next year’s classes.
Oversee state testing.
Coordinate orientation at the beginning of the year and an awards ceremony at the end.
Deal with any problems kids bring to her office . . .
”I just jump from one thing to another all day long,” Hughes said. “I’m the only counselor for 440 students and I don’t even have secretarial help.”
Hughes is hardly alone in her frustration, according to a report released today by the Michigan-based Joyce Ivy Foundation. After surveying almost a third of Ohio’s 1,500-plus high school counselors, the report concluded they handle so many duties and so many students that they can’t focus on guiding their charges toward college or career training after graduation. [see link to full article at end of this post]
St. Paul, Minn. — Gov. Pawlenty’s Workforce Development Council says one way to improve the state’s economy is to have high school students choose their career path in the ninth grade. How early to start career planning? Minnesota’s Public Radio Broadcast: Midmorning with Kerri Miller, 02/06/2009, 9:06 a.m. discusses the pros and cons of early career planning. Educators weigh in on the merits of the proposal.
Here’s the wording of the proposed Minnosota policy.
“Every Minnesota learner will, from no later than ninth grade, have a plan, reviewed at least annually, to guide him/her through high school and beyond into competitive employment and postsecondary education. The plan will be implemented gradually, becoming a graduation requirement with the graduating class of 2014.”
Guests
Jim Bierma: Lead counselor of Minneapolis public schools.
Randall Hansen: Founder of Quintessential Careers, a career development Web site, and has taught at the college level for more than 15 years.
Marc Scheer: Researcher, educational consultant, and career counselor with a Ph.D. in counseling psychology. His book is called “No Sucker Left Behind: Avoiding the Great College Rip-off.”
By Carl Nielson, developer of Career Coaching for Students™
A Personal Blog Entry By College Student Ashley Hoornstra
Hello and welcome to Success Discoveries and more specifically, Career Coaching for Students™.
So many high school and college students have the perception that finding one’s self/career has to be completely left to chance. The assessment tests used by schools are very suspect.
Bill Gates on Life: 11 Things You Don’t Learn in School
From the Internet
According to e-mail broadcasts, Bill Gates gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. We at Success Discoveries don’t have a direct connection to Bill Gates, but we are betting he didn’t say these things quite the way it is reported. So we are listing the list here with our “more likely interpretation” in italics.
Mentors A Key Factor For Students Interested In Tech Careers
A recent study from MIT finds that contrary to popular belief, many high school students actually are interested in studying for careers in technology and other related fields.
According to the Journal of New England Technology, the survey found that 85 percent of teenagers surveyed were interested in science, engineering and mathematics – all of which are fields where critical shortages are expected nationwide in the coming years.
Are you in touch with the future? If you are a parent or teacher, you need to know. If you are a student, this presentation is all about your future.
Watch the video (be sure your sound is on to enjoy the music):
“Did You Know?” is a POWERFUL 5-minute presentation about how the world is flattening. Take a few minutes and listen and watch this fabulous presentation, created in 2006 by Karl Fisch, Director of Technology at Arapahoe High School in Colorado and updated in 2008. Those of us in the corporate world have seen it coming for at least 10 years. The time has arrived…
Direct from the NFL Players Association, outstanding leaders on the football field aren’t defined by football. See and hear these athletes define themselves differently.
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The Frugal Teenager, October 10, 2008, The New York Times Go to this link to see full article and a video interview with kids about the economy. Elisabeth Irwin High School in New York City offers a snapshot of how the nation’s financial crisis is trickling down to teenagers.
A Different Kind of Career Coaching - A Different Kind of Assessment
...Fun Video
Career Coaching for Students™ is a powerful and sophisticated program based on extensive scientific research that uses highly validated assessments as the center piece to meeting the goals of the program. Have fun watching this short video on what we think about many of the “career advice and assessment products” that are on the market. You might be able to relate but we hope not.
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Testimonials
From a Mom
Just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed the Career Coaching for Students seminar yesterday with my daughter. I think it had a lot of valuable tools she will be able to use in the years to come.
I wanted to let you know how impressed I was with the guest interviewee who…
The assessment results were very helpful and fun to read about myself. I’ve got some work to do to choose the best career option for me but I feel much better about how to do the research and the career options that were suggested through the assessment results really helped narrow my interests. I was kinda scared before but now I’m excited about the future. The connection between majors, college choice and career choices makes more sense now.
I just wanted to drop you a quick note about the Career Coaching for Students program last Saturday that my son and I attended. With [my son] being a freshman, it was my hope that [he] would just come away from this program with enough information to begin thinking about his future and become more motivated about his high school studies. The results…
I felt like there were so many options and interests for me that I couldn’t focus on career direction or make a decision about a college major or even what school to attend. This workshop really helped me narrow my options in a good way. I’m much less worried about my future plans - mainly because I now have plans for my future.
Career Coaching for Students™ is an industry-leading product that aligns with legislative programs at the state and federal level, and may qualify for purchase with a wide variety of funds.
To see an Editor’s Pick of websites that are helpful go here.
To learn about grant programs from the Department of Education in general go here.
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