Navigating Your Future: Interactive Journey to Personal and Academic Success

How can students succeed if they're stressed out? In a back-to-basics style,Navigating Your Futureputs stress management at the forefront, teaching students to harness their stress, create positive attitudes, and set personal goals. Behavioral changes must be simple, interactively reinforced and show quick, positive results in order to take permanent hold. This working textbook and integrated CDhelps students to assess their current academic and workplace skills and develop specific action plans to insure both academic and personal success. This text gets to the "heart of the matter" through personal assessment and the development of goal-oriented action plans to improve students'skills. Features include: Highly interactive and fun CD- presents concepts in simple, practical steps rather than only in theoretical approaches, using personalized assessments and engaging techniques Behavioral Change Techniques- short, simple, and effective techniques help students make lasting behavioral changes Logical Learning Organization- focus on student's internal success skills to "get them grounded" in the basics before moving on to higher-level skills or tasks "WOW!! This is just what new students need in a book!! I can't state how impressed I am with this author and the text. This approach will be very effective for new students." --Michelle Buchman,EverestCollege "The examples are exceptional and very in touch with the realities of the student. This is rare in most textbooks. In most books it seems as if the author might be trying very hard to understand what the student is really going through. However, this text has the feel and attitude that the author truly understands the challenges of the college student and has practical and realistic advice. It does and excellent job at this." --Theresa Tuttle, ECPI College of Technology Additional Support - in and out of the classroom… Visit the Student Success Supersite ( www.prenhall.com/success ), where students and faculty will find an array of resources. In addition, instructors will be pleased to know thatNavigating Your Futureoffers an Instructor's Manual and PowerPoint slides.Bruce J. Colbert is the author of 'Navigating Your Future: Interactive Journey to Personal and Academic Success', published 2008 under ISBN 9780131960848 and ISBN 0131960849.