Recovery & Reentry
The Focus Life Institute has a passion to help individuals overcome personal setbacks by gaining the skills needed to be effective in the workplace and successfully move their life forward. We provide the tools they need for re-entry into society to secure and maintain gainful employment to fulfill their destiny in life!
The Focus Life Institute has created personalized courses that will provide direction and the skills needed for you to enter the workforce and be successful. Our courses are focused on helping facilitate the ongoing process as you reenter or advance in the workforce.
Our vision is to bring hope to the hopeless and provide the skills needed to become a productive member of society. Our course will help you with the people skills, essential soft skills, and character values that employers are demanding in the workplace.
This is a reason why we created the Focus Life Institute.
Our purpose is to empower, equip, and prepare individuals to become focused on their personal assignment and
purpose in life to impact, transform, and positively influence society!
In this personalized workbook, we would like you to capture the following information that will help you prepare for the workplace. After each section, you will have a series of questions to help you retain and reflect on the information provided to help you in the skills needed for the workplace. Reflection is defined as serious thought or consideration.
In each session, please capture your thoughts and answer the questions in each session.
Here Are Our Personalized Reentry Course Modules
The HEROES Effect
Heroes – The FOCUS on HEROES Principles for Success course will help those individuals identify their specific virtues so they can operate in them as they reenter society. The course focuses on six principles underlining values and character development—H for honor, E for excellence, R for responsibility, O for order, E for expectation, and S for servanthood. These characteristics are proven to produce favor and increase their opportunities for influence and advancement. This course comes with the companion eBook, the HEROES EFFECT.
- HEROES Effect Personalized Profile and e-book
- The HEROES Principle: Operating in Honor at Home, Work, and School
- HEROES Leadership Traits
- Honor: Operating in Honor at Home, Work, and School
- Excellence: Creating Excellence in All You Do
- Responsibility: Understanding How To Take Ownership of Your Actions
- Order: Being Submitted to Those in Authority
- Expectation: Overcoming Pessimism
- Servanthood: Learning How To Serve Others
- Effects of the HEROES Principles – Favor and Influence
Finding Life’s Direction
Finding Life’s Direction – Our Finding Life’s Direction course will provide individuals with a process to focus on their career path as they reenter society and prepare for their future. This course includes creating a vision statement, identifying your passion areas, and discovering your vocational sphere of influence. In addition, each person will identify their personality style, gift cluster, and then match their personality with jobs in the 16 career clusters. Finally, each reentrant will create personal, career, and educational goals for their future. The end result is an action plan to achieve your dream and fulfill your destiny!
- Identifying Your Passion Areas What Motivates Me Most?
We identify your passion areas! Extracurricular activities are a critical component of your passions that can be beneficial for advancing in post-secondary education. - Placement – Vocational Spheres
The 7 spheres profile will identify the specific spheres of influence you are called to impact such as business, education, government, media, family, religion, arts and entertainment. - Personality – Identifying Your Behavioral Style and the Motivations of Others
We use the DISC behavioral assessment system to identify those traits and qualities that shape our behavior and personality. Using that information and taking the profile will guide you through practical application examples for daily life, career, and work. - Behavioral Flexibility and Adaptability – Blending and Connecting With Others
This information will help you learn how to adapt, blend, and connect with others producing a greater level of relationship, increase communication, and be more productive in your personal and professional life. - Behavioral Leadership and Occupational Characteristics
This DISC recaps your leadership and occupational strengths that will be used to identify your career choice. - Identifying DISC and General Occupations
Each DISC style has specific general occupations that will appeal to all users and provide a hand-in-the-glove fit for a happy and more creative career path. - Matching Behavior With Occupations in the 16 Career Clusters
This session includes a personal analysis of the DISC Focus Behavioral Style profile and descriptions of the 16 career clusters. The tool then matches a focus style with specific occupations in the 16 Career Clusters and Tech Prep (2 Year Degrees) that helps save time and money in a career choice. In addition, it offers ways to gain real world experience so you can secure that perfect job. - Spiritual Giftings
This profile will help you identify your spiritual gift cluster and how you can utilize your gifts in all areas of your life. In this profile, we will help you identify your specific gifts and then provide an action plan for you to begin to utilize them to positively affect the lives of those within your influence. The more you understand and strengthen your spiritual gifts, the more you will find that doors of opportunity open for you. - Creating a Personal Vision for Your Life
Vision is where you are going in life. Many people do not take the time to identify where they want to go based on their interests, abilities, & personality. You will write your personal vision statement based upon the learning that you obtain from our course. - Peak Performance Setting Goals – Educational, Career and Personal Goals
By creating objectives, goals, strategies and measures, you can gain personal fulfillment and greater levels of achievement.
Skills for Success
Skills for Success – Each reentrant will gain the edge and stand out in the sea of employees as their career skyrockets. LinkedIn’s Workplace Learning Report shares that soft skills are the number one priority for talent development. Employers continue to say the majority of people lack the essential soft skills that are required for success in the workforce. These include people skills, communication, collaboration, conflict resolution, confidence, creativity, character, decision-making, problem solving, time management plus the behavioral interview techniques to secure their desired job.
Skills For Success
According to LinkedIn’s “Workplace Learning Report,” soft skills are the No. 1 priority for talent development. Further, a LinkedIn study found that hiring managers indicated their company’s productivity was limited due to a lack of candidates’ soft skills.
According to World Economic Forum research, there are 10 soft skills that employees should have by 2020: complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, coordinating with others, emotional intelligence, judgment and decision-making, service orientation, negotiation and cognitive flexibility.
“The No. 1 problem with today’s young workforce is the soft skills gap,” “It runs across the entire workforce — among workers with technical skills that are in great demand, every bit as much as workers without technical skills.” Soft skills are key to individuals’ success in the workplace and are a competitive differentiator in the marketplace. “They’re the source of a huge amount of power that is always right there hiding in plain sight — a tremendous reservoir of often untapped value — a secret weapon for any smart organization, team, leader or individual performer,”
Bruce Tulgan
Research shows that emotional intelligence matters twice as much as IQ or technical skills in job success. Data has revealed that proved factors such as self-confidence, self-awareness, self-control, commitment and integrity not only create more successful employees but also more successful companies. Source: Working with Emotional Intelligence.
The Skills For Success Module was developed to provide solutions for individuals to be prepared for the workplace. In this course I want to provide for you my personal experience as a manager and trainer for UniLever (10 years) and The Coca-Cola Company for over 27 years. I was able to equip and train multiple regions in both people skills and essential soft skills based on the DISC personalized behavioral profile. What I heard from many of my colleagues before I trained them was that most behavioral analysis they took in the past told me “who” I was but not “what” to do with it in the workplace.
I was able to provide the solutions for them in the workplace when it came to enhancing communication with others, collaboration in teams, reducing conflict, increasing confidence and creativity. This became my passion to take my experience and create the Focus Life Institute to help individuals be prepared for the workplace in the following areas:
- People Skills is defined as “the ability to communicate effectively with people in a friendly way, especially in business” or personal effectiveness skills. You will gain an understanding of self and how to identify the behavioral style of others. This course will provide you with the cognitive flexibility to adapt your personal behavior in response to changes in the workplace environment. You will learn how to “blend” your style and “get in sync” with others by providing the behavioral tactics and methods to be incorporated into their professional and personal life.
- Soft Skills are defined as a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character traits, attitudes, career attribute, social intelligence and emotional intelligence quotients among others that enable people to navigate their environment, work well with others, perform well, and achieve their goals. The Collins English Dictionary defines the term “soft skills” as “desirable qualities for certain forms of employment that do not depend on acquired knowledge: they include common sense, the ability to deal with people, and a positive flexible attitude. In this lesson, we will utilize your personal behavioral style and provide you with solutions in the following 3 core competencies: communication, collaboration and conflict resolution.
- Time Management: This session focuses on your personal behavioral style and helps you understand how you and others value time. We will review your distractions that are currently wasting time and how to reduce or eliminate them. Secondly, we review your individual traits and areas for you to improve on when it comes to time management. Finally, we review how to blend and get in sync with others on a team, at work or in school based on how each motivation values time so you can create a more productive and efficient environment.
- Critical Thinking Skills are defined as making reasoned judgments that are logical and well-thought out. In this lesson, we will review how to stay focused in your life by teaching you how to create a focused environment, where to focus your energy and efforts to achieve your goals. In addition, you will gain insight in how to make better quality decision and solve problems in the workplace.
These skills that you will be learn in this course will help you in understanding the positive differences in personal relationships both in your personal and professional life.
Includes:
- People skills
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Conflict resolution
- Confidence
- Creativity
- Character
- Decision-making
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Behavioral interview
Focus On Entrepreneurship
The FOCUS on Entrepreneurship Course helps students determine if the freedom
and flexibility of entrepreneurship is the right path for them. Financial freedom is a
main goal of entrepreneurs, but this is possible only if you understand the basic
principles and are willing to learn from those who have done it successfully. This
course will equip you to be unstoppable—develop the behaviors of successful
entrepreneurs, create a basic business plan, and use the ICES model (Innovation,
Concepts, Execution, and Solutions) to help students chart their course to
entrepreneurial business success!
- Basic Entrepreneurship
- Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs
- Personality Style of Successful Entrepreneurs – What it Takes
- Basic Components of a Business Plan
- Create Your Business Plan
- Insights for Success – Innovation, Concepts, Execution and Solutions
- Create a Vision for Your Business