Steven LeMons

Many students start college with the expectation of graduating within two to four years, but often, they lack a clear plan or academic direction. Many remain unaware that the choices they make at the beginning of their college experience and during each semester can significantly impact their success at graduation. How can we encourage students to enhance their academic and personal value when they may not know where to begin?

Beginning the Journey with the End in Mind, offers an Entrepreneurial Approach & Responsibility Strategy© (EARS) that, today, is essential for achieving academic success for graduation and beyond. This presentation promotes strategies for creating an Academic Investment Plan (AIP), a self-guided implementation tool that help students inventory and organize their thoughts, strengths, skills, and abilities. Students create their own AIP to strengthen their learning foundation and embrace the importance of preparation, focused habits, and investing in oneself.

In this session, students will:

• Learn practical tools and strategies to enhance goal setting, academic management, and critical thinking skills.
• Discover practical techniques for successful classroom preparation that will inspire new ideas and provide insights for their future careers.
• Be introduced to the steps for creating a challenging yet rewarding vision for themselves utilizing the Entrepreneurial Approach & Responsibility Strategy (EARS) to develop a personal Academic Investment Plan (AIP), that equips them for success.
•  Address unproductive habits and provide students with actionable steps for creating a productivity plan that yields long-term benefits.

The Journey Workshop Experience is a dynamic interactive tool designed to empower students. It plays a crucial role in students’ understanding and addressing the habits and root causes perpetuating a lack of attainment and self-defeating attitudes that hinder their success. Changing one habit can inspire academic and personal growth, enhance critical thinking skills, and allow students to incorporate other strengths and abilities.

This approach creates a foundation and building block that facilitates breakthrough performance, inspiring students to believe they can achieve higher performance levels with a realistic plan. The Experience introduces first-time college students to active learning strategies that enhance their ability to succeed, increasing academic effectiveness and overall productivity.

The Journey Workshop Experience:

• Offers an engaging interactive platform designed for underprepared and first-time college students, addressing the root causes and life challenges that hinder their success.
• Identifies self-destructive thoughts and behaviors that contribute to self-doubt, undefined goals, and poor academic performance. This session equips participants with tools and strategies to overcome these obstacles.
• Equips students with applications for breaking negative influences and relationship circles that promote unproductive activities yet keep them from achieving goals.
• Focuses on well-delivered content that challenges participants mindsets and unproductive attitudes, which can impair their critical thinking skills. Steven’s engaging delivery fosters confidence and resilience, encouraging an “I-can-do-it” attitude among participants.
• Help students break free from negative influences and relationships that promote counterproductive behaviors, which prevent them from achieving their goals.
• Finally, it highlights the significance of goal setting and how establishing clear goals can lead to personal growth both now and in the future.

As dedicated educators, we have the unique opportunity to shape minds and inspire future generations. Merely surviving the daily grind and trudging through life does not benefit us. However, what is the answer when work-life balance becomes unbalanced, and additional tasks and assignments find team members overloaded, frustrated, and losing campus productivity?

Numerous tasks in the workplace and at home simultaneously can be overwhelming. Would you like to reset your team’s productivity path? Imagine the growth, collaboration opportunities, and possibilities when employees gain a focused perspective, leading to overall productivity improvements inside and outside the workplace.

In this session, Steven LeMons shares:

• Hidden obstacles that hinder attendees from becoming the passionate and powerful individual or team you are—or once were.
• Five effective strategies for recognizing and dismantling productivity stealers that could
  rob your team of its effectiveness.
• How to minimize mental clutter and distractions that block collaboration and effective problem-solving.
• Three steps for creating a Personal Business Philosophy that helps minimize stagnation and provides guiding principles for navigating and minimizing unproductive behaviors, individually and collectively.
• Practical tools for self-evaluation that reignite energy and passion resulting in transformational success.
• Participants gain new perspectives on managing change, collaboration, and realigning their focus.