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        Click here for a list of Approved On-Line Transitions Schools.

              The Student Lessons include a PowerPoint presentation of the lesson.

              The LESSON link opens the PowerPoint.  Please note that the links in the PowerPoint are no longer functional. All video and instructional material links are listed below each lesson in Resources.

Communications:

LESSON 1: Anger is One Letter Short of Danger! Controlling Your Emotions
Resources:  Pre-Quiz   |   Frustration Scenario Scripts     |   Never Behave Scenario Scripts     |   Self-Assessment   |   Situational Judgment Questions   |   Role Play Center video

LESSON 2: The Wisest People Don't Have All the Answers: Learn to Say, "I Don't Know!"
Resources:  Play Script   |   Scenario Script 1   |   Scenario Script 2   | Brain Teasers  |  Situational Judgment Questions   |   Role Play Center video

LESSON 3: Say What? The Fine Art of Listening - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |   Speech and Distracter Scripts   |  Situational Judgment Questions   |   Role Play Center video

LESSON 4: Say What? The Fine Art of Listening - Part 2
Resources:  
Pre-Quiz  |  Scenarios  |  Speeches  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 5: Work is About Managing Chaos: Dealing With Ambiguity
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Scenario Scripts  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 6: If I've Told You Once, I've Told You a Thousand Times! How to Take Advice and Make Results
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Handout#1  |  Handout#2  |  Student Questionnaire  |  2A-2R Worksheet  |  Role Play Script  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 7: Learning How to be Persuasive: Using Passion and Past Performance to Make your Case - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Skit Scripts  |  Scenario Scripts  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 8: Learning How to be Persuasive: Using Passion and Past Performance to Make your Case - Part 2
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Myth Handout  |  WIDARR Sample  |   Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 9: What You Say is What You Are! Workplace Verbal Communication
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Scenario Scripts  |  Role Play Scripts  |  Vocabulary Usage paragraph  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 10: What You Know About Who You Know: Network Your Way to Career Success
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Networking Handout and Inventory  |  Network Tree  |  Situational Judgment Questions

LESSON 11: The Customer is Always Right: Effective Customer Service Skills - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Customer Service worksheet  |  Scenario Scripts  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 12: The Customer is Always Right: Effective Customer Service Skills - Part 2
Resources:
  Statement Scripts  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

Career Preparation

LESSON 1: Can We Talk? How to UseInformational Interviews to Your Advantage
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Fact Finding Handout  |  Interview Questions  |  Situational Judgment Questions  | Role Play Center video

LESSON 2: Accomplishment and Complement: The Power of a Cover Letter
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Cover Letter Guide and Rules  |  Job Postings  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 3: Resume' Writing: Getting Your Foot in the Door - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  1-1-1 Philosophy  |  George's Resume  |  Sample Resumes  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 4: Resume' Writing: Getting Your Foot in the Door - Part 2
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Resume Samples  |  Resume Scenarios  |  Flowcharts  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 5: The Three "P's" to Acing an Interview: Prepare, Practice, Perform!
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Job Descriptions  |  Must Have worksheet  |  Do's and Don'ts of an Interview  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 6: Why Should I Hire You? Interviewing for Success
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Common Interview Questions  |  Questionnaire  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 7: Do Lunch or Be Lunch: Networking on the Job - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Effective Networking  |  Getting to Know You worksheet  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 8: Do Lunch or Be Lunch: Networking on the Job - Part 2
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Martin's Story  |  Business Cards  |  Network Tree  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 9: Apply Yourself and Get the Job:Applications are the First Critical Step - Part 1
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Flowchart  |  Job Application Scenarios  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 10: Apply Yourself and Get the Job:Applications are the First Critical Step - Part 2
Resources:  Sample Application  |   Application Blueprint  |  Job Application  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions

LESSON 11: Work is About Money and Efficiency: Being Bottom Line Oriented - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Profiles  |  Scripts  |  Scenarios  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 12: Work is About Money and Efficiency: Being Bottom Line Oriented - Part 2
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Scenarios  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

On the Job

LESSON 1: Shaking Hands and Kissing Babies:Politics is a Reality in the Workplace - Part 1
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Politics Scenario  |  Role Play  |  Drama Script  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 2: Shaking Hands and Kissing Babies:Politics is a Reality in the Workplace - Part 2
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 3: Go With Your Gut! Following Your Instincts in the Workplace
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Activity Scripts  |  Scenario Scripts  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 4: Meeting Etiquette: What Really Happens Behind Closed Doors - Part 1
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Scenarios  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 5: Meeting Etiquette: What Really Happens Behind Closed Doors - Part 2
Resources:  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 6: You Owe Me! The Myth About Workplace Entitlement - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 7: You Owe Me! The Myth About Workplace Entitlement - Part 2
Resources:   Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LES SON 8: You Owe Me! The Myth About Workplace Entitlement - Part 3
Resources:
  Scenario Scripts  |  Criteria for Judging  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 9: Spinning Plates and Juggling Bananas: The Importance of Learning Multitasking
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  COMPLEX-O-METER  |  Scoring Sheet  |  Situational Judgment Questions

LESSON 10: How Do You Act When No One is Looking? Integrity in the Workplace - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Morality Questions  |  Worksheet  |  Scenario Scripts  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 11: How Do You Act When No One is Looking? Integrity in the Workplace - Part 2
Resources:  Moral Solutions worksheet  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 12: Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk: Consistency in the Workplace - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Reaction Scripts  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 13: Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk: Consistency in the Workplace - Part 2
Resources:
  Scenario Scripts  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions

Interpersonal

LESSON 1: Business Survival:Building a Good Relationship with Your Employer
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Self-Assessment  |  Safety Plan directions and worksheet  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 2: R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Cultural Sensitivity in the Workplace
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Cultural Sensitivity Exercise  |  Scenarios  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 3: Cultural Awareness:Knowing Not to Cross the Line
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Scenarios  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 4: Opportunities are Created, Not Handed Out: Making Something Out of Nothing
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 5: Legends in their Own Minds:Dismantling Arrogance in the Workplace - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Arrogance Statements  |  Arrogance Busters Scripts  |  Handout  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 6: Legends in their Own Minds:Dismantling Arrogance in the Workplace - Part 2
Resources:
  Scenario Scripts  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 7: For Every Action There is an Equal Reaction: Giving and Receiving Negative Criticism
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Comments List  |  Role Play Script  |  Negative Comment Sheet  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 8: Corporate Cultures: Learning How to Fit In!
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Role Play Scenarios  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 9: There Are Two Sides to Every Story: The Art of Compromising
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Scenarios  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 10: Time Is a Tyrant: Managing It is a Key to Success - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  To Do List  |  Review handout  |  Scenario Scripts  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 11: Time Is a Tyrant: Managing It is a Key to Success - Part 2
Resources:
  Time Management Killer Scripts  |  Role Play Scenarios  |  Wedding Day Timeline  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 12: Attitude Adjustment: Do You Need an Overhaul or Just a
Tune-Up?
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Scenarios  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

Self Improvement

LESSON 1: Find Direction From Someone Who is Lost: "The Drifter" (A Play)
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Play  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 2: Know Thyself: Self-Assessment for an Attainable Career Objective Know Thyself: Self-Assessment for an Attainable Career Objective
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Drifter Script  |  Career Funnel  |  Interests and Adorations Assessment  |  Interests and Adorations Tally Sheet  |  Interests and Adorations Summary  |  Skills and Abilities Assessment  |  Skills and Abilities Tally Sheet  |  Skills and Abilities Summary  |  Values and Needs Assessment  |  Values and Needs Tally Sheet  |   Values and Needs Summary  |  My Assessment Table  |  My Objective Statement  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 3: What Do You Want to be When You Grow Up? Mapping Long-Term Perspectives
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Begin with Decisions handout  |  Stages and Fears handout  |  Identify Fears handout  |  Script  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 4: The ABC's to Dressing for Success: Always Be Conservative
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Rules of Dressing  |  Worksheet Activity  |  Scenarios  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 5: Get Your Feet off the Table and Quit Slurping Your Soup! Dining Etiquette in the Workplace
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Rules of Dining Etiquette  |  Worksheet Activity  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 6: The First Stage of Success is Just Showing Up! Proper Workplace Attendance
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Sample Worksheet  |  Marvin Role Play  |  Nate Role Play  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 7: What's Your Style? Developing Your Leadership Style - Part 1
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 8: What's Your Style? Developing Your Leadership Style - Part 2
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Scenarios  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 9: There's no "I" in Team: Learning to Contribute Effectively to a Team - Part 1
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Action Modes  |   Team Evaluation form  |  Task sheet  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 10: There's no "I" in Team: Learning to Contribute Effectively to a Team - Part 2
Resources:
  Pre-Quiz  |  Characteristics of Teamwork  |  Teamwork worksheet  |  Scenarios  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 11: Working Hard or Hardly Working? Defining Your Work Ethic
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  Script  |  Self-Assessment  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

LESSON 12: First Impressions Happen Only Once: Make Them Great!
Resources:  Pre-Quiz  |  First Impressions handout  |  12 Fundamentals  |  First Impressions worksheet  |  Situational Judgment Questions  |  Role Play Center video

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