Goals of Training

This initiative, to bring MegaSkills directly into secondary school and workplace settings, is designed to teach what it takes to succeed in today's world. Career MegaSkills provides answers to these major questions:

• What do we need to know, and be able to do, for success on the job?
• What do we do to learn this?
• How do we show that we know it?
• How do we link MegaSkills for jobs in the workplace and parenting work at home?

Plus content is keyed to state academic standards and objectives.

Training Activities use Real-School/Real Life Situations … how-to's for instructors to use Career MegaSkills to teach students required competencies for modern day job successes.

• Anticipate issues before they become problems
• Assume greater responsibility
• Communicate more effectively in speech and writing
• Determine resource needs
• Exercise leadership and more reasonable decisions
• Identify problems and solutions
• Know how to obtain and use information
• Learn new skills and new technology
• Motivate themselves and others
• Plan projects and establish priorities
• Understand more about their individual role in larger systems
• Work more cooperatively with others

Time Frames

Half day and whole day sessions. Career MegaSkills can be integrated with MegaSkills for Parent Involvement, ideal for Compensatory Education Programs. Longer time frame allows for demonstrations, role playing and experiential activities.

Career MegaSkills Training focuses on building student abilities to identify resources, work well with others, use information effectively, build thinking and basic skills, enhance personal habits associated with school and work success.

Developed by Dr. Dorothy Rich, Author of MegaSkills