Enhance Your College/Career

Readiness Program with “Soft Skills”

Dennis Trittin and Arlyn Lawrence

LifeSmart Publishing, LLC

Are You Preparing College- and Career-

Ready Students?Universities and employers are looking for well-prepared high school graduates who are ready to take on the challenges and responsibilities of higher level academics and the workplace.

Will They Get This?

Or This?

Let’s Look at the Facts

Fact #1: Among the top eighteen industrialized nations in the world, the United States ranks ninth in the world in enrollment but dead last in completion rates.

Fact #2: The teen jobless rate in the U.S. has been over 20% for five years (currently 24.1%). Many employers say, when given a choice, they prefer to hire older applicants due to the lack of work ethic and reliability in young people.

Fact #3: According to colleges and employers, young adults are less than successful at college and in the workplace not for lack of academic knowledge, but for lack of “soft skills” like endurance, self-reliance, communication, resourcefulness, and problem-solving.

What are “soft skills?”They include:

Strategic perspective and focus Character and ethics Relationship building and

communication Personal productivity/discipline Modeling the qualities employers

value

Establishing a Personal Leadership Foundation

Strategic Perspective and Focus

Desired Outcomes:

Sense of vision and purpose Holistic definition of “success” Positive outlook and attitude Other-centeredness

Character and Ethics

Desired Outcomes: Commitment to excellence Non-negotiable integrity Modeling qualities of honorable

leaders Demonstrating self-discipline and

respect

Relationship Building and Communication

Desired Outcomes: Building healthy friendships Being an encouraging team player Respectful and adaptable

communications Listening to understand

Personal Productivity and Discipline

Desired Outcomes: Effective goal setting and time

management Objective decision making Strong learning disciplines Perseverance through stress and

adversity

Modeling the Qualities Employers Value

Desired Outcomes: Effective goal setting and time

management Objective decision making Strong learning disciplines Excellence in everything

The What I Wish I Knew at 18 Life Skills and Leadership Course

targets these vital topics with relevant insight, instruction, and

application

Speaking to Your Program Needs

College and Career ReadinessFinancial Literacy

Life LiteracySoft Skills

Developmental Assets

LeadershipLife Skills

Achievement Gap

School cultureGraduation Rates

What I Wish I Knew at 18 Comprehensive vision for a

successful launch into adulthood Personal leadership and life skills Wisdom for key decisions based on

the ways of honorable leaders Conversationally and universally written for young and old alike

About the Course Generally for upper high school grades but

easily adapted to lower grades 9- or 18-week program Free downloadable leader’s guide with

lesson planning tools and resources High level of flexibility for facilitators Invaluable, relevant, and interactive

content Targets key concepts that promote life

readiness

Sample LessonsStudent Guide

Recognize that First Impressions are Huge – Page 43

Become a Masterful Decision-Maker – Page 58

Demonstrate the Qualities Employers Value – Page 88

Versatile Resources to Support Your Objectives

Core curriculum (or supplemental resource) for leadership/life skills, family, college/career readiness, and relationship courses

Resource for student mentoring Summer reading book for all students Student Advisory and At-Risk resource Designed to improve student performance

and school culture

Contact Information Available at dennistrittin.com,

Amazon, AtlasBooks, bookstores Contact: Dennis Trittin, President and

CEO: (920) 319-3169 (mobile) dtrittin@dennistrittin.com

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THANK YOU for building the next

generation of honorable leaders.

We salute you!