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Globe Business College Munich - Five Important Skills Your Teenager Should be Taught in High School

FIVE IMPORTANT SKILLS YOUR TEENAGER SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN HIGH SCHOOL

Why personal development matters in modern education

The world is moving faster than ever. Technological innovations come out every day that change the way we operate, from simple tasks like writing to more complex events like entertainment. Even larger job-related skills are quickly being converted into automated flows with robotics, AI, and machine learning.

A lot of these new developments excite our young people – and they should. It’s the world they’ll be living and working in. But as they get excited and plan to take their next steps after high school, are they going to be truly prepared to enter university and the job market? As educators, we’ve seen a growing problem: education that ignores the student’s personal development.

Here are five skills we think your teenager should be taught (and continuously work on) beginning in high school:

Time Management

Learning time management as a skill enables your son or daughter to effectively and efficiently divide their time between different activities, thus maximizing how effective their efforts are. A person who understands the value of their time understands the value of their tasks. They’ll be able to decide if something must be done, delayed, delegated, or deleted from their schedule. Learning this at a young age will help to balance assignments, exams, and additional responsibilities like work or family. And of course, these habits will carry over to university, helping their experience to feel more under their control. Practicing effective time management as a teenager will make this extremely valuable skill second nature when they enter the job market.

Bigger Picture Thinking

With the rapid changes we previously discussed, everyone is thinking about the future and wondering what it will look like. When your son or daughter is taught to see a challenge, goal, or idea in a broader vision, then break down the abstract concept into what actually needs to be done to accomplish the idea, they’re practicing bigger-picture thinking. This skill is a strategy that focuses on the entirety of what’s to come instead of obsessing over the details or the unknowns that might feel overwhelming. Anytime they feel overwhelmed, stopping to ask, ‘What am I really moving towards with my actions?’ will help them to refocus, realign, and understand the importance of their current movement.

Grit, Passion, and Determination

Many people will say grit can’t be taught, but we disagree. We absolutely believe that grit exists in all of us and sometimes, just needs to be nurtured and encouraged. Often times young people fail to develop grit, or the passion and determination needed to achieve long-term and meaningful goals, simply because they’re told they have all the time in the world to accomplish what they want. While they may, this is a huge disservice because grit, passion, and determination are not simply how badly they want to achieve something, nor are these important skills a symbol of their natural talent. Instead, grit, passion, and determination are harnessing the power behind wanting a goal so badly that you choose to organize and structure your actions in such a meaningful way that to fail would almost be impossible. When a young person is nurtured and shown they can develop such focused intensity, their sheer determination can often overtake someone else’s natural born talent. Grit comes from high levels of self-control and self-consciousness. If your son or daughter can control and use these to empower their growth, the challenges of the future might not seem so intimidating.

Empathic Exchange

Communication is hard and with the digitalization of conversations through text, messenger, and social media, we’ve seen young people who have lost the ability to read body language or understand unspoken communication. In the classroom and in the job market, we have expectations for professional and pragmatic conduct. These are rooms and spaces where emotions create more challenges than comfort, and can often create conflict when one doesn’t understand how to be a part of the larger conversation taking place outside of just the words being spoken. When your son or daughter learns how to hold empathic exchanges, they can change or impact the direction or even person of the conversation. Empathic exchange helps to build relationships, trust, and more honest conversations. From speaking with their teachers to leading extracurricular activities to networking and even interviewing for their first internship, this skill will be invaluable in their personal development journey.

Communication

We’ve listed communication last because it’s largely touched and impacted by the four previously mentioned skills in this list. Any form of speaking, writing, or any other medium our young people are exposed to, such as social media, sends a message that helps them to define who they are and how they want to interact with other people. When we say we need to teach the young people in our lives to be better communicators, we don’t mean train them to speak. We mean teach them to have the confidence to develop their own style of expressing their points, to stand up and do so with their head held high, and have confidence in their opinions, knowledge, and belief systems. Effective communication builds stronger relationships and helps your son or daughter to express their feelings and thoughts in a more efficient manner. The stronger their communication skills, the more likely they are to stand up for themselves, ask for help, or stand up for their beliefs in the classroom and job market.

All five of the above skills are strong as individual learning points, but when paired together, will create a truly dynamic, capable, and confident human. The next time you have the opportunity to speak to those educating your teenager, ask them what they’re doing to help your son or daughter develop these five crucial skills (time management, bigger picture thinking, grit passion and determination, empathic exchange, and communication).

At Globe Business College Munich, these five skills are the cornerstone of our educational philosophy. In 2006 we had the vision of creating a third level business college in Munich that combines the Irish and German approaches to education. The dream back then was to develop students who can combine the science and art of business. So graduates, who in addition to their formal academic qualifications, have the ability to think on their feet, operate in dynamic environments, have great people skills, communication abilities and are driven by a growth mind-set. That vision has materialised into a college that is filled with individual students who benefit every day from a unique educational approach. This uniqueness comes from the fact that at the core of everything we do is a relationship model that puts the individual at the centre.

Now we also offer our Golden Ticket Weekend workshop for students aged 16-19. Over the course of the weekend, they not only get an introduction to business with our special VIP network of company owners, mentors, coaches, and actors, they start their personal development on these five skills. The weekend is held on campus in Munich or on your child’s campus thanks to our generous network of sponsors and alumni who experienced our education first-hand.

For more information, go to Golden Ticket Weekend or Globe College. Let’s open the conversation for how we can become your partner in your son or daughters success.

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Globe Business College Munich - Gift your Son or Daughter an Experience that Will Allow Them to Shape Their Character and Skills

What would you invest in a weekend where your son or daughter will be coached by a team of mentors, professionals, and special VIP guests in a high-energy business competition where they walk away energized, excited, and full of zest for life. We take young people off their phones and immerse them in a personal development experience.

Welcome to the Golden Ticket Workshop by Globe Business College Munich . Read more online

This dynamic weekend is set in a business context but is really about character and skill development. Your sons and daughters are taken off their phones and immersed in an energy driven experience that allows them to step out of their comfort zone and grow personally. The procrastinators, the perfectionists, those who are shy or lacking in confidence or unfocused get to blossom; the budding entrepreneurs shine, and the great academics get to see the other side…the practical application of skill and knowledge.

The next Golden Ticket Weekend is coming quickly: 2 - 4 December, 2022 at our campus right in the heart of Munich.

The price for the workshop is 450 Euros, which includes the weekend experience (Fridy evening to Sunday), certificate of completion (linked to school CAS points where relevant) and snacks. It also includes the parent session on Sunday (from 11-2) which involves customised feedback on your child's performance, a general session on how parents can navigate education in a tech driven world, Q and A reception and watching your child and their team at the final presentations.


You can register online at this link, by calling our admissions team at +49 89 59990841 or by contacting us directly by email.

Don't believe us about how great this experience is, then have a look at the testimonials below.
Link to information for parents

Andrea Wirsching, current owner and operating director of the Hans Wirsching Winery talks about the Golden Ticket weekend - view the interview online

To hear the experience of students, we recommend this video link

Globe Business College Testimonials

How Can Private Tuition Help Your Child Achieve The Grades Needed To Apply To The Best Schools

We are seeing an increase in the number of our families requesting a full-time private tutor, governor, or governess. The feedback: a lack of confidence with standards in school education, especially since the covid pandemic closed schools across the globe, and an attempt by families to expose their children to the global knowledge economy, to give them an edge and ensure that they can compete for coveted places at top schools.

So with this in mind, how can a private tutor, governor, or governess work with your child to help them achieve their very best results and reach the outcome required?

 

One-on-One Attention

A private tutor, governor, or governess can develop and create lesson plans based on the specific needs and age of your child. They can match your children’s personalities and learning styles and give them the confidence to learn something that they find difficult in a typical classroom-stye environment. The school system tends to have large classes, and even where there are limits on numbers in each class, shy children are often in danger of being overlooked and left behind as they concentrate on the needs of the average student in the class. Where teachers don’t have time to provide the attention a child needs, and the longer this goes on, the more unlikely it becomes that the child will be able to catch up which can have a devastating effect on their self-esteem. A well-chosen one-on-one private educator has the luxury of being able to go back to the beginning, filling gaps in the knowledge and ensuring the child understands the topic and can apply the concepts and possibly even exceed the required standard.

 

Flexibility To Study Anything, Anywhere and Everywhere

Many of our families have busy schedules and like their families to travel with them around the world spending weeks to months in various countries. As this can be disruptive to a child’s schooling, a private tutor, governor or governess is able to travel with you on family vacations and business trips so that your child doesn’t miss key learning stages at school. A private educator will establish a daily educational plan and routine that allows for one-to-one instruction, learning activities and outings, preparing for tests and exams, and time to write assignments and Essays; fitting all this around the family’s obligations, downtime, and schedule. One of our tutors would regularly deliver lessons on the family’s private jet using the time efficiently so that on arrival the child could indulge in other more engaging pursuits. Additionally, to aid learning, a private tutor, governor or governess might choose to teach specific subjects on specific days. For example, maths and science on Mondays, languages on Tuesdays, art and music on Wednesdays with Friday dedicated to outdoor learning each week.

 

Learning More Than the Syllabus

A private tutor, governor, or governess teaches a wide variety of subjects in more depth than core curriculums usually require. For example, a bilingual educator will be able to deliver lessons in more than one language. Where your family regularly interacts with different cultures it might be important to you for the educator to teach proper etiquette, culture and customs, a code of conduct, and manners. In pursuit of top colleges, an accomplished, highly educated tutor, governor, or governess can often teach more than the information required by the curriculum and may be able to provide a wider viewpoint for study that allows a student to garner a deeper understanding not only of the core subject, but also the wider issues that impact the subject. Private tutors are also able to teach study skills and how to plan and organise your revision timetable, they can show a child how to best manage their time and prioritize tasks in exams and whilst studying. These life skills are valuable lessons that the child will be able to use throughout adulthood.

 

Goals and Objective Setting for Your Child’s Future

A private educator can help you set objectives in line with your and your child’s goals,aspirations, personality, and interests. Not all children know what they want to be when they grow up and a private tutor, governor, or governess can act as a coach, encouraging the child to explore their interests. Their focus on educational attainment alongside consistent praise, encouragement, and feedback can instill confidence in your child which will allow you and them to choose the right schools and colleges and be better prepared for entrance exams and often achieve higher results than their peers in traditional schools. A private tutor, governor, or governess can also support you in preparing your child for adulthood byimparting valuable life skills that they may not get exposed to in traditional educational systems.

 

Is your child struggling? Things to look out for:

Even if your child does attend an educational establishment, they may still benefit from having a private tutor, governor, or governess who will work closely with a student who has fallen behind or has learning difficulties. A child who might benefit from one-on-one attention might have:

 

•               Consistently poor or falling grades

•               Detentions for homework not completed

•               Not enjoying school

•               Stress or anxiety about school, friends, or grades

•               Difficulties with age-appropriate core skills such as reading, writing, or maths.

•               Diagnosed learning difficulties.

•               Not wanting to attend school

 

 Where Can I Find the Right Private Tutor/Governor/Governess for my Family?

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