James Bird Guess Home University & College Student/Staff Development Programs
Why do meeting planners consider James the world's most electrifying speaker and trainer?
James has the rare passion and ability to engage, entertain, empower and change people!
James knows how to spark change in your students, faculty, and staff and equip them to overcome their obstacles, achieve their greatest potential, and make the impossible, possible.Click here for more information or to request quote for a seminar or training session now!
From Classroom to Boardroom™
How to Make Sure You Succeed After College No Matter What!
A wake-up call for students about to graduate. Students will learn what it takes to successfully transition to the next level and achieve professional and life success.
Students will learn how to:
• Develop the Skills & Qualities Employer's Want
• Apply The "Final Four" Features for Success
• Build their Personal & Professional Brand
• Apply the Art of Networking
• Stay Motivated, Plan & Succeed on Purpose
University of Adversity™
Surviving, Thriving & Embracing The First Year Experience
This seminar will help first year students establish a focused and determined mindset. It will equip students encountering difficult circumstances, unfamiliar living arrangements, new academic atmosphere and relationships and teach them how to embrace, endure and exceed those circumstances and achieve academic success.
Students will learn how to:
• Discover Their Passion, Creativity, & Innovation Skills
• Turn Fear & Failure Into Academic Success
• Guide Ambition Toward Achieving Goals
• Develop Discipline, Determination, & Productive Philosophy
The Financially Fit College Student™
Real-Life Lessons on Money & Debt, Corporate America & Success
Did you know that in a survey of University & College administrators nationwide stated that they lose more students to credit card debt than to academic failure?
The typical college student graduates with more than $4,000 in credit card debt, along with $20,000 in federal student loan debt. It's time your campus delivered an effective educational solution to an alarming academic problem. Help your students obtain the degree in a subject matter they chose, and not a degree in debt!
Students will learn how to:
• Take Control of Their Financial Life
• Earn Extra Cash, Without Getting a Job
• Distinguish Good Debt vs. Bad Debt
• Build & Maintain Good Credit
• Leverage Education Into Income
Hearts of Leaders™
The Process of Grinding into a Global Leader
What qualities do human resource managers of corporate and community organizations look for when hiring today’s college graduates? Leadership skills are stated as one of the most critical factors in the hiring process. However, most colleges and universities do not teach comprehensive leadership skills essential to equipping students to become effective leaders on campus, in the community, and the competitive global marketplace.
Students will learn how to:
• Develop a Personal Vision & Mission Statement
• Apply the Art & Science of Leadership
• Engage, Influence, & Develop Fellow Students
• Develop the Essential Features of a Leader
• Develop Student Organizations (i.e. Greek, Multicultural)
The Success Process™
Grinding Through the Process of Success is Worth More than Achieving Success
A new "life-changing & mind refining” seminar on encountering difficult circumstances, and how to endure and exceed those circumstances to achieve academic and professional success. James guides the audience through essential success process and prepares them with tools for each of the phases, while describing what it will take to complete the process of achieving success.
Students will learn how to:
• Develop Academic Motivation for Effective Learning
• Apply Education to Personal Success
• Emerge into a Student Leader
• Turn Stress into Strength & Success
• Develop Discipline, Diligence, & Determination
• Develop Self-Confidence & Perseverance
The Urban College Student™
Successful Strategies for Staff & Faculty to Educate, Advise & Empower Today's At-Risk College Students
This seminar and training program defines at-risk college students as students who are ethnic minorities, academically disadvantaged, and of low socioeconomic status. As a former at-risk college student, James and his team will showcase the techniques, strategies and skills for faculty and staff to increase student retention rates, obtain student participation, equip students for effective learning, and maintain their motivation for academic success.
Staff will also learn the most important factors for effectively and successfully advising at-risk students in a culturally sensitive manner and enriching their college experience.
Attendees will learn how to:
• Maintain Student Interest & Motivation
• Effectively Advise Students for Academic Success
• Develop Teaching Strategies for Effective Learning
• Equip Students to Develop Successful Learning Habits
From Depression to Progression™
How to Embrace, Endure & Exceed Life's Circumstances
College students undergoing depression are twice as likely as their classmates to drop out of school. The two core symptoms of depression are loss of interest and pleasure in activities, and depressed mood, which is highly associated with lower grade point averages.
In this seminar, James empowers students with his story of enduring homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, loneliness, and a scarred childhood to uplift and inspire them to get through their personal issues. On such a sensitive subject, James displays enough empathy and knows the right words and delivery to draw out and ignite dormant ambition, skills and passion!
Students will learn how to:
• Circumvent Life’s Circumstances
• Develop Emotional Resilience & Self-Esteem Boosters
• Develop Coping Strategies for Success
• Reemerge & Determine Their Passion & Purpose
Athletes Gone Broke!™
Why Professional Athletes Start Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck
Did you know more than 60% of professional National Football League & National Basketball Association athletes have dire financial problems only two years after retirement? This is a one of kind financial intelligence seminar for student athletes, beginning professional athletes, and coaches.
Attendees will learn how to:
• Apply Education as the Foundation for Athletic Success
• Develop Their Own Financial Plan
• Not Finance Family & Friends!
• Discuss & Comprehend Basic Business & Investing
• Distinguish Good Assets vs. Bad Assets
As an experienced speaker and trainer, James can also customize a program to impact your audience's needs and produce your desired results.
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