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Our pre-employment program is designed to give young adults, who dropped out of school or have graduated HS but have little direction, the life skills and attitude to become part of the community. The program is designed to include the community and business partners to insure success for the individual. Needs of the young adult will be assessed; such as transportation, family commitments, legal and others to make the training possible and successful.

· We look for young adults that have:

o a positive Attitude:

o a good Aptitudes for doing certain kinds of things easily and quickly.

“I didn’t value experience as much as character, creativity, and common sense, which I suppose was related to my having started Bridgewater two years out of school myself, and my belief that having an ability to figure things out is more important than having specific knowledge of how to do something” … Dalio, Ray. Principles: Life and Work

Are we creating another category of worker? Thinking tech. (Thinking Tools)?

Mindset thinker ... customer, engineering
Process designer
Business thinker... How is business structured & roles
leadership
Team work
Problem solver
Decision maker
Change management
Use of business thinking tools; Info.-mapping, math ( algebra, tables), Balanced scorecard, Flow diagrams.
Technology future direction ... AI, Robots, Internet of things & Analytics

We are creating a new kind of employee… with Ownership mindset

· Customer focus & process design
· End to end design
· Inter-personal skills/ team player/ problem solver
· Ably to handle constructive criticism
· Focus on hard work and results
· Desire to learn and excel
· Team-work and thinking outside the box
· Good communications and non-verbal skills
· Eager to work out issues
· Thinking skills ( Critical & Creative thinking, Questioning and System thinking)
· The bigger the problem the bigger the opportunity

From our experiences in business & education, we have created a curriculum and training program that sifted out the manual part of work and created thinking employees with unique mindset thinking and life-skills to be productive in your organization. These are the people that AI & Robotics will last replace.

Title

World Problem Activity

Description

Pre-employment training for individuals to join the workforce with needed life-skills

LEARNING OUTCOMES / OBJECTIVES

Life- long learner skills

Join the work force with a positive attitude.
Ownership and engineering mind-set.

Weekly Schedule

16 weeks; 5 days/week; 7 hours/day Classes,

4 weeks is solving a community problem

Course Rubrics Standards, learning targets

Three areas of learning targets

· Knowledge … Content

· Skills … Processes, trainability assessment

Reasoning Thinking skills, character development

Course Expectations

Students will develop skills to be part of a work-force with a positive attitude of seeing problems as opportunities creating a joyful work environment

The right kind of people

· Will be focused not on the boss but on the customer;

· Not on individual performance but on team performance;

Not on the task Not on the task but on the outcome

Converting workers into professionals

Self-directed workers

self-directe

This is what we mean when we talk about, a hybrid breed of employee who not only does the work but manages the work as well, with all the requisite decision-making authority, responsibility, and accountability that implies.

Faster, Cheaper, Better

Attitude and Aptitude

A process-centric organization doesn’t worry a lot about skills and experience. Instead, it takes the approach “draft the athlete, teach the game.” In other words, hiring for attitude and aptitude becomes the strategic approach to finding the right individuals for an organization. The mechanics of the various jobs can be taught easily

Ideal candidate

People with the kinds of backgrounds that indicated they were highly motivated and had the ability to learn new ways of doing things

The ideal candidate would have two outstanding qualities, known colloquially as “plays well with others” and “runs with scissors.” Teamwork and the ability to think outside the box are critical but often scarce attitudes.

Two Voices

A voice of the business ... need to operate efficiently

A voice of the customer ... What the customer wants and will pay for

What Is a work force centric culture?

see project academy culture statement

Seeing the work environment as a place to learn

Grow professional Grow professionally as if you’re in your own business

Our focus is on skills, regardless of where or how they’re obtained.

Building a skills-based labor market requires a commitment to being:

Locally Supported: Incorporate local support and human connections to change behaviors

• Ecosystem Focused: Engage with existing players to create a skills-based labor market

• Skilled-Worker Centric: Design initiatives to reach and support job seekers who have completed high school but do not have a college degree

• Evidence Based: Create and iterate approaches based on research and experience with partners across the labor market

• Partnership Oriented: Collaborate with existing players to pursue the fastest, most effective path to change

• Technology Enabled: Harness the technologies and data transforming the economy to help companies and workers thrive

Class room activities: Our instruction is based on project based learning vs "caulk & talk" learning.

One-hour Class Period Structure

15 min. of class learning/discussion
30 min. of Exercise / Activities by the teams
Break

Teams build their learning thru answering questions and building their knowledge.

Class Activities ... Tied to the curriculum

Improv.
Drawing exercise
On-line videos
Problem solving
Team building games
Socratic Questioning
Seminars on relevant topics
Process problems

It is important for you to understand that you will build your own knowledge by using questions of why, how, what.

You will learn to think using creative questions as well as critical thinking question that will support you in your growth in a career or as well college. You will see that you need to become a life long learner to survive.

It is the policy of Project Academy not to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin, color, homelessness, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability in its education programs, services, activities, or employment practices.