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I have a method to teach you how to be successful at work. It deals with become good at using life-skills in work and the community. I need you to help me prove the concept and make it work for others.

You and I need to agree upon what you want to gain out of this ... Your end game (need). We will work in a learning team, like a sports team to develop and practice our game plan. Our learning these life-skills will occur as we form our team and solve a community problem or find a position.

You take ownership
I help, when you ask for it or I see an unhealthy attitude
We set an end goal or a problem to solve

. “Employers just want someone who will get up, dress up, show up, (shut up?) and never give up,” Tom Friedman NYT

Instructions:

This learning process starts with a group of between 5-8 individuals, who will work together starting with an ice-breaker, then forming a learning team, followed by selecting a problem, working on solving the problem and finishing up with a testing and reporting activity to the community. During these tasks, life-skills will be infused in the process.

The expected outcomes are as follows:

Uses questioning, why, what and how while doing activities.

Developing an engineering & team mind-set. (Teams build character, culture and community.)

Internalize the problem-solving process & Thinking skills

Connection to various life skills used in the community, business and schools.

Begin a path for lifelong learning.

General Tenants

1. Will change careers equally as jobs.

2. Life-skills are transferable between careers/jobs

3. Think of yourself as in your own business. … Your boss is your customer.

4. Problems are opportunities … the bigger the problem the bigger the opportunity. Vinod Khosla

5. Use the engineering mind-set to focus on all the activities around your normal position.

6. Learn from your errors … They are learning tools

7. Be a lifelong learner … Have fun at it.

Short Learning Projects (PDF Documents) ...Background/setup

Practicing the Interview process	Understand a charter use in project management

Soft-Skill web sites

SkillsUSA	Applied Education
Monster	Pinterest
Build Your Brand	Glass-Door
Feel Good sites: Sayings
Pre-employment documents
Learning-life-goals	Need for an engineering mind-set
Research on the need-life-skills	Skill-gap is serious
Skills make you more employable	XO learning outcomes

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