Attitude is a feeling or way of thinking that affects your behavior. You can choose to have a positive or a negative attitude. The key word here is choose. We all choose our attitudes every day. Here’s a spotlight on attitude and 5 tips for improving your attitude. Martin Luther [...]
Known for: entrepreneur, innovator, humanitarian, futurist, founder of SpaceX, Co-founder of Paypal, Zip2 and Tesla Motors Primary soft skills: Critical thinking, Goal Setting, Resiliency Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. It’s easy to believe that the age of grand invention [...]
Known for: Athlete, Entrepreneur, Team Owner, Billionaire, GOAT? Primary Soft Skills: Goal Setting, Resiliency, Drive Strength / Motivation Even if you’ve never watched basketball, you’ve heard of Michael Jordan. You can see him driving to the basket, leaping in the air with his tongue hanging out, and dunking the ball [...]
Here at Conover, we are passionate about emotional intelligence and soft skills. This is the first of what will be a recurring series where we take a look at some interesting articles that highlight soft skills or their absence in news, media, etc... For the final month of Summer, we'll [...]
We have been receiving a lot of inquiries about our Functional Skills System apps over the last few days. Many people have noticed that our 42 Functional Skills System apps are no longer available in the Apple App Store. In fact, it was no less than 30 minutes after we took them [...]
You probably were not able to go to every session, keynote, or presentation that you wanted to during the Bridge to the Future II conference in San Diego last week. It was great getting some heat and sun compared to Wisconsin (it was a high of 3 degrees that day). [...]
In our previous post, we discussed the new WIOA law and what that means for federal and youth programs. With the new law, federal programs now serve more youth with disabilities and must ensure they are prepared for the workforce. Youth programs have only served 20% of youth with disabilities, [...]
Assessing independent living skills is a crucial process in our educational system because it can help prepare individuals with disabilities for their post-secondary settings. Rather than just hoping to place them in the community when they turn 22 years of age (in some states, 26), you can better prepare individuals [...]
Everyone thinks they know what they want, but if you really think about it, we only know what we don’t want, based on what we don’t like. This can be dangerous, because if we don't know what we want, we don't have an end goal and we end up losing [...]
Product failure happens more often than not, when people get frustrated with the process involved in using the program rather than the program itself. We've eliminated all of the barriers and simplified the process so Conover Online works - period.
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