I was always intrigued by the question: Why are some people successful in life while others just can�t get it right, even if they are from the same background. I have researched this phenomenan over many years, and now I believe I have a fairly accurate� list of the characteristics of successful people. As this book is meant for the man in the street, I have written it in layman�s terms and I used examples and humor to bring the points across. Furthermore, I attempted to show how to learn the characteristics of successful people in order for the reader to internalize the principles and become successful himself.��

I was always intrigued by the question: Why are some people successful in life while others just can�t get it right, even if they are from the same background. I have researched this phenomenan over many years, and now I believe I have a fairly accurate� list of the characteristics of successful people. As this book is meant for the man in the street, I have written it in layman�s terms and I used examples and humor to bring the points across. Furthermore, I attempted to show how to learn the characteristics of successful people in order for the reader to internalize the principles and become successful himself.��

I was always intrigued by the question: Why are some people successful in life while others just can�t get it right, even if they are from the same background. I have researched this phenomenan over many years, and now I believe I have a fairly accurate� list of the characteristics of successful people. As this book is meant for the man in the street, I have written it in layman�s terms and I used examples and humor to bring the points across. Furthermore, I attempted to show how to learn the characteristics of successful people in order for the reader to internalize the principles and become successful himself.��

Teachers today encounter some students in the classroom who are disruptive and disrespectful. These students impede the progress of education; allowing the teachers to teach and the remaining students to learn. The techniques in the book are proven successful in changing the student�s behavior, in addition to the students recognizing they are accountable for their behaviors. The variety of methods are easily learned and implemented. The teachers choose the one(s) they are most comfortable using.

Teachers today encounter some students in the classroom who are disruptive and disrespectful. These students impede the progress of education; allowing the teachers to teach and the remaining students to learn. The techniques in the book are proven successful in changing the student�s behavior, in addition to the students recognizing they are accountable for their behaviors. The variety of methods are easily learned and implemented. The teachers choose the one(s) they are most comfortable using.

Teachers today encounter some students in the classroom who are disruptive and disrespectful. These students impede the progress of education; allowing the teachers to teach and the remaining students to learn. The techniques in the book are proven successful in changing the student�s behavior, in addition to the students recognizing they are accountable for their behaviors. The variety of methods are easily learned and implemented. The teachers choose the one(s) they are most comfortable using.

The issues of concern are the frustrations, violence, educational disappointments and insults to children of the United States. My book begins with the shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 and then takes a look back to the high-lights of recent American history from WWII as an attempt to put into some perspective the major events that seem to have contributed to the devaluation of the professionalism of teachers and educators and public education in general. This, then, leads to a presentation of the need for educational reform with specific recommendations as well as guidance models for the young as an adjunct to societal reform and a final summation of purposes and directions for the future. It also provides teaching points and a guidance manual for those in the fields of counseling, civics, modern U.S. history, psychology and sociology.

The issues of concern are the frustrations, violence, educational disappointments and insults to children of the United States. My book begins with the shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 and then takes a look back to the high-lights of recent American history from WWII as an attempt to put into some perspective the major events that seem to have contributed to the devaluation of the professionalism of teachers and educators and public education in general. This, then, leads to a presentation of the need for educational reform with specific recommendations as well as guidance models for the young as an adjunct to societal reform and a final summation of purposes and directions for the future. It also provides teaching points and a guidance manual for those in the fields of counseling, civics, modern U.S. history, psychology and sociology.

The biggest threat to your business is employees who don’t demonstrate the right behaviors!By the time your traditional employee training program gears up to address the problem, you will have lost customers and potentially be out of business!It’s no secret that hard times place enormous stresses on businesses and governments. However, a more sinister threat has been eating away at the private and public sectors for the more than 30 years – regardless of economic conditions. This threat metastasizes each time an employee fails to do the “right” thing, disregards a customer’s needs or fails to follow standard operating procedures. The result is poor quality, dissatisfied customers, a co-worker lawsuit and/or reduced sales.The worst part of this scenario is that those behaviors are enabled by YOU!You the executive leadership team, you the line supervisor, you the training professional and you the uncomplaining employee who struggles to stay focused during yet another three-day training session, while a pile of work sits waiting for you.In desperation, you will commit to more training, where a larger set of facts will be jammed into a smaller window of time. And at the end of the last training day, as you stagger out of the stale air of an over-crowded training room, perhaps it will dawn on you … it’s not just what employees know, it’s how they behave that will save or strangle your enterprise. We passionately believe the future of any company lies in the heads, hearts and hands of its workers.Effective training is more than just transferring information. There’s simply too much of it out there. Unless it cuts through the clutter and personally grabs us, we tend to tune out and shut down. We are aware of the critical need to move workers to want to use and apply the information that is at their fingertips, so that training is worth your investment.Last year, and for countless years before it, private businesses and governmental units have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in employee training programs.And for good reason … Our nation’s education system is not designed to prepare anyone for the specific behaviors needed to be successful in the workplace. Traditional educators do a slightly better job with “skills” training, but only in a generalized manner, often failing to connect those skills with on-the-job performance.When global economic conditions turn downward, it only furthers these challenges as many “trained” employees are asked to pitch in and perform unfamiliar duties. Likewise, other “displaced” workers find themselves forced to confront completely new workplace settings where day-to-day expectations do not correlate to prior experience.

The biggest threat to your business is employees who don’t demonstrate the right behaviors!By the time your traditional employee training program gears up to address the problem, you will have lost customers and potentially be out of business!It’s no secret that hard times place enormous stresses on businesses and governments. However, a more sinister threat has been eating away at the private and public sectors for the more than 30 years – regardless of economic conditions. This threat metastasizes each time an employee fails to do the “right” thing, disregards a customer’s needs or fails to follow standard operating procedures. The result is poor quality, dissatisfied customers, a co-worker lawsuit and/or reduced sales.The worst part of this scenario is that those behaviors are enabled by YOU!You the executive leadership team, you the line supervisor, you the training professional and you the uncomplaining employee who struggles to stay focused during yet another three-day training session, while a pile of work sits waiting for you.In desperation, you will commit to more training, where a larger set of facts will be jammed into a smaller window of time. And at the end of the last training day, as you stagger out of the stale air of an over-crowded training room, perhaps it will dawn on you … it’s not just what employees know, it’s how they behave that will save or strangle your enterprise. We passionately believe the future of any company lies in the heads, hearts and hands of its workers.Effective training is more than just transferring information. There’s simply too much of it out there. Unless it cuts through the clutter and personally grabs us, we tend to tune out and shut down. We are aware of the critical need to move workers to want to use and apply the information that is at their fingertips, so that training is worth your investment.Last year, and for countless years before it, private businesses and governmental units have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in employee training programs.And for good reason … Our nation’s education system is not designed to prepare anyone for the specific behaviors needed to be successful in the workplace. Traditional educators do a slightly better job with “skills” training, but only in a generalized manner, often failing to connect those skills with on-the-job performance.When global economic conditions turn downward, it only furthers these challenges as many “trained” employees are asked to pitch in and perform unfamiliar duties. Likewise, other “displaced” workers find themselves forced to confront completely new workplace settings where day-to-day expectations do not correlate to prior experience.

In Search of Psyche tells of a psychology professor who doffed his academic robes for a year to sit in on university classes. It gives a view of the fare students get in one of the largest courses in Colleges of Arts and Science at a nationwide sample of distinguished universities. From it come answers to these questions: What is the psychology taught to beginning students? How is it taught? How well? In Search of Psyche is, thus, introductory psychology at Berkeley on a Wednesday in October, Stanford the next Tuesday, Michigan and Ohio State in the same week in February, Harvard and Yale in early spring.

In Search of Psyche tells of a psychology professor who doffed his academic robes for a year to sit in on university classes. It gives a view of the fare students get in one of the largest courses in Colleges of Arts and Science at a nationwide sample of distinguished universities. From it come answers to these questions: What is the psychology taught to beginning students? How is it taught? How well? In Search of Psyche is, thus, introductory psychology at Berkeley on a Wednesday in October, Stanford the next Tuesday, Michigan and Ohio State in the same week in February, Harvard and Yale in early spring.

In Search of Psyche tells of a psychology professor who doffed his academic robes for a year to sit in on university classes. It gives a view of the fare students get in one of the largest courses in Colleges of Arts and Science at a nationwide sample of distinguished universities. From it come answers to these questions: What is the psychology taught to beginning students? How is it taught? How well? In Search of Psyche is, thus, introductory psychology at Berkeley on a Wednesday in October, Stanford the next Tuesday, Michigan and Ohio State in the same week in February, Harvard and Yale in early spring.

Growing Socially and Emotionally is a guide for parents, teachers, and counselors to use with the intermediate grade level child to stimulate discussion.  It is based on the author’s extensive reading in psychology along with her experience as an elementary classroom teacher for twenty-nine years.  It aims to enhance self-esteem by teaching children about self-encouragement and how to handle criticism.  It explains how to become an excellent student by valuing learning and nurturing good work habits like perserverance, taking responsibility, and breaking long assignments into parts.  It opens up a discussion with children about abusive and caring behavior.  It helps children learn how to get along with others by accepting differences and learning how to resolve conflicts.  The guide stimulates discussion about feelings.  It helps children learn what is behind anger and how to deal with it.  It helps children understand fear and how to cope with it.  It talks about sadness and how to deal with it.  It goes into ways of coping with problems by getting more information, using humor, helping others, and accepting what can’t be changed.  It stimulates discussion about growing up, coping with change, getting privacy, and understanding the difference between good touches and bad touches.  It addresses the issue of acceptance and nonacceptance of handicaps.  It explains how our thoughts affect our feelings and how thinking better thoughts helps us to feel better.  It defines values and opens up a discussion of where we learn values and the importance of choosing them.  The discussion guide ends with a discussion of creativity and the creative process.

Growing Socially and Emotionally is a guide for parents, teachers, and counselors to use with the intermediate grade level child to stimulate discussion.  It is based on the author’s extensive reading in psychology along with her experience as an elementary classroom teacher for twenty-nine years.  It aims to enhance self-esteem by teaching children about self-encouragement and how to handle criticism.  It explains how to become an excellent student by valuing learning and nurturing good work habits like perserverance, taking responsibility, and breaking long assignments into parts.  It opens up a discussion with children about abusive and caring behavior.  It helps children learn how to get along with others by accepting differences and learning how to resolve conflicts.  The guide stimulates discussion about feelings.  It helps children learn what is behind anger and how to deal with it.  It helps children understand fear and how to cope with it.  It talks about sadness and how to deal with it.  It goes into ways of coping with problems by getting more information, using humor, helping others, and accepting what can’t be changed.  It stimulates discussion about growing up, coping with change, getting privacy, and understanding the difference between good touches and bad touches.  It addresses the issue of acceptance and nonacceptance of handicaps.  It explains how our thoughts affect our feelings and how thinking better thoughts helps us to feel better.  It defines values and opens up a discussion of where we learn values and the importance of choosing them.  The discussion guide ends with a discussion of creativity and the creative process.