- Frame: Understand the positional advantages to developing a longer-term view
- Filter: Understand the social and economic conditions that can pose a threat to your choice, and those that boost you
- Focus: Determine you optimal direction
- Better informed: Create a list of signals that you will watch that indicate you should pivot – these give you situational advantage
- Better prepared: Know where your emergency exits are before lift-off (Option B, C and …. X)
- Jump: Choose one. Understand the science of decision.
- Create a timeplan, tasklist that you can work on today to move you in the direction of your goal
- Rinse/Repeat: Deploy, Review, Revise. Deploy, Review, Revise.
Skills developed:
- Strategy – reading signs & signals
- Critical thinking & Complex decision making
- Communication & Collaboration
- Cyclical re-evaluation
Typical Audience: GenZ, Millennials transitioning into business, Parents, School groups, Scouts & Guides, Religious groups, Athletic programs, Gap Year programs, Adults in transition
It is a great concept and fits well with the philosophy we are trying to impart.
CHANGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHANGE
- Define stability and define change
- Understand that transition is between two periods of relative stability
- Learn “bridging” – how to create coping strategies for maneuvering this interim phase effectively and be able to rebound faster (understand resilience)
- Learn to trust in your foundational skills, which you can use at all stages of life’s transitions
Skills developed:
- Coping strategies
- Critical decision making
- Self-confidence and self-reliance
- Framework of consistent habits as launch points
Audience: GenZ, Millennials transitioning out of academia, Parents, Education & School groups, Scouts & Guides, Religious groups, Athletic programs, Gap Year programs, Adults in transition, Corporations in transition
You set up the thinking-about-change process really well.
Mini-Course
Earning their Wings
6 strategies to use within the home to prepare your teen for university:
- Situational advantage: Create fictitious situations to discuss the various strategies that a teen would use to address an uncomfortable situation – drunkenness, drugs, sexual assault
- Tactical advantage: Can they do laundry, manage a doctor’s visit, self-advocate in an academic meeting, cook a meal.
- Give them responsibilities and watch them stretch and achieve.
Audience: GenZ parents of high school students
Mini-Course
Planning for Admissions Essays
- Understand the strategy behind a robust university application.
- Spread the load – extra-curricular, references, campus tours, leadership opportunities can all be gathered throughout your high school journey.
- Do your career research – how to use LinkedIn, networks and other tools
- Discover how to gain confidence and a situational advantage by planning ahead.
Audience: High School GenZ and GenZ parents, careers class