Teen and Young Adult Leadership

Does your teen have a good decision-making process to navigate the demands of peer pressure? How well does your college-bound student manage time and conflicting activities/assignments? Do you see the motivation, initiative and leadership needed for a satisfyng career in your young adult?

Business Vitality offers the America’s Rising Stars Process. It is designed to help today’s youth develop their personal leadership skills and begin to set goals and directions for their lives beginning at an earlier age. Leadership is essential in enabling youth to develop character, confidence, and values that promote the understanding of healthy behavior.

“The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.”

—Carl Jung

What is America's Rising Stars?

America's Rising Stars is an innovative and unique inside-out self-development process designed specifically for teenagers. This research-based approach focuses on three critical elements that promote personal leadership, healthy behaviors, and the skills employers identify as essential. These elements are developed, applied, and reinforced throughout the process and through a follow-up process to strengthen and perpetuate successful behaviors. These elements are:

Positive attitudes
Interpersonal skills
Goal-achievement skills

How does America's Rising Stars work?

The ARS development process typically begins by developing positive attitudes among the participants, both about themselves and others, and about the infinite possibilities that exist for them. Attitudes will directly determine in many cases whether a young person...

Turns a problem into an opportunity or succumbs to it.
Will behave in healthy ways that ensure a successful present and future.
Will benefit from the educational process.

Interpersonal skills when combined with increased knowledge and goal-directed behavior enhance the probability that each young person will assess the impact of their present behavior on their existing and future success.

Who can use America's Rising Stars?

Families: As an individualized coaching program for the teenager either in person (in the Rochester NY region) or by phone. Also suitable for college students who are away at school. See also Parent/Teen Partnership below.
Schools/Nonprofits: As a group program by middle and high schools; by colleges and universities as a freshman orientation process; and organizations or nonprofits that focus on young adult development such as job skills development programs, after-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities.
Companies: ARS helps teens build the attitudes and behaviors that enhance job performance. For example: (1) Companies in which teens comprise a large proportion of employees can use the process as a complement to their functional job training. (2) ARS can be offered as an employee benefit directly to teens. (3) Offer ARS as a benefit offered to adult employees for their teenagers. (4) Companies can fund ARS through their favorite nonprofit that works with teens.

Parent/Teen Partnership™

Business Vitality offers a unique process to help parents and teens navigate the child's path to independence that comes from growing through adolescence to adulthood. Our process fosters communication, helps manage conflict, and encourages creativity between parents and teenagers during what can be a turbulent time.

In this process, the parent and teen each work through Business Vitality's development processes at the same time. The parent takes Leadership, and the teen goes through Americas Rising Stars. The two processes are compatible and are built on the same base of concepts, tools, and life-building skills.

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“The measure of success is not whether you have tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.”

—John Foster Dulles

STATISTICS

62.1%: The percentage of ninth graders within New York State who graduated high school within four years and are considered regular graduates by the state. (Source)

Nationally, nearly one-third—32%— of all public high school students fail to graduate. (Source)

Adults age 18 and older with a bachelor’s degree earned an average of $51,554 in 2004, while those with a high school diploma earned $28,645, according to new tabulations released in October 2006 by the U.S. Census Bureau. Those without a high school diploma earned an average of $19,169. (Source)

Illicit teen drug use (includes alcohol) as of 2003:
* 8th grade -- 30.3%
* 10th grade -- 44.9%
* 12th grade -- 52.8% (Source)

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