About Terry Schmitz

Terry Schmitz is the founder and owner of The Conover Company. Terry has been involved in the development of assessments for both education and corporations for over 30 years. He has developed hundreds of job-specific assessment systems that link to skill building systems.

Teaching Interpersonal Awareness: Listening

In order to teach your students interpersonal awareness, you have to teach them how to listen. Listening is a primary communication activity used by all people and is central to the personal, social and educational and workplace success of every person. One of the best ways to improve interpersonal awareness [...]

By |2019-04-03T14:18:25-05:00April 1st, 2019|Education, Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Interpersonal Awareness: Listening

Anxiety Management: The Impact of Self-Control

Increasing your level of self-control will bring positive change to your life and help you manage your anxiety. But, how exactly will your life change? In this post, you will discover the impact that greater self-control will have on your life. Let's look at the following topics related to the [...]

By |2024-12-05T13:34:19-06:00March 8th, 2019|Anxiety Management, Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Anxiety Management: The Impact of Self-Control

Teaching Assertion: Steps for Success

Help your students take the first steps toward becoming assertive. The following steps are small, but important, things to help them succeed in adapting a new, assertive communication style: Decide to change Decide what you want Be fair Know how to say “no” Learn how to listen Take risks Be [...]

By |2019-02-18T13:17:31-06:00February 11th, 2019|Education, Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Assertion: Steps for Success

Teaching Assertion: Overcoming Obstacles to Change

“An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion….unless acted upon by an outside force.” That’s Newton’s First Law of Motion. Basic science tells us that resistance is a common response to change, whether we’re talking about the movement of an object, or human [...]

By |2019-02-04T10:51:07-06:00January 28th, 2019|Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, SEL|Comments Off on Teaching Assertion: Overcoming Obstacles to Change

Performance Reviews: Making Continuous Improvements

Part of being a great employee is evaluating yourself and making continuous improvements. The key to improving yourself is to have a positive attitude. Instead of thinking, “I’m never good enough!”,  think, “I have achieved a lot, but how can I improve myself?” Your performance review will give you answers [...]

By |2019-01-21T10:03:42-06:00January 11th, 2019|Emotional Intelligence, Life Skills, Soft Skills, Workplace Readiness|Comments Off on Performance Reviews: Making Continuous Improvements

Performance Reviews: Respond to Compliments

We all love to hear compliments when we do something worth noticing. You’re sure to hear some compliments in your performance review. Typically it is easier to hear compliments than constructive criticism, but you may not have considered the appropriate way to respond to compliments that you receive from your [...]

By |2019-09-30T15:28:10-05:00December 21st, 2018|Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills, Workplace Readiness|Comments Off on Performance Reviews: Respond to Compliments

Teaching Drive Strength: Goal Setting

Drive Strength or personal motivation is attained through goal setting. Goal setting is a major ingredient for success. The author Mark Twain once said, "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it."  Twain might have said the same thing about success in life. Everyone talks about it, [...]

By |2019-09-30T14:40:35-05:00November 18th, 2018|Life Skills, SEL, Soft Skills|Comments Off on Teaching Drive Strength: Goal Setting
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