Calling all parents and teens! Are you ready for your son or daughter to learn more about leadership? Would you like to see her feel confident in making her own decisions? Wouldn’t it be great if he took initiative more often to spend time doing something to further his future? How about developing solutions to some of the challenges of being a teenager today?

 If so, than Rising Stars is for you! The Rising Stars program was designed to help today’s youth develop their personal leadership skills. Leadership is essential in enabling youth to develop character, confidence, and values that promote healthy behavior.  Ten lucky teens in our community will have the chance to participate in this program!

Click here to register!

In a recent research report, Workforce 2020: Work & Workers in the 21st Century, found that employers grouped leadership as one of the essential skills entry-level workers lacked.

More specifically, this group of leadership skills includes strong work ethic, problem solving, and creativity, along with organizational and interpersonal skills.

These skills were ranked ahead of writing, math and reading. Educators, parents, government officials and business people have all realized the importance of helping our youth develop their personal leadership skills. Empowered youth grow up feeling confident with themselves and with their ability to achieve goals.

Preparing young people for a healthy and successful future has taken on many new and complex dimensions and the trend is likely to continue. Success in today’s competitive environment requires that youth develop their personal leadership skills. Leadership is essential in enabling youth to develop character, confidence, and values that promote the goal of healthy behavior.

Research shows a majority of American youth engages in health compromising behavior. Half of all ten to seventeen year olds are at high or moderate risk of undermining their chances for a healthy life because of substance abuse, unsafe sex, teen pregnancy, school failure and delinquency, and crime or violence.

More importantly, a recent report from the American Medical Association captures the importance of this goal: "For the first time in the history of this country, young people are less healthy and less prepared to take their places in society than their parents. Moreover, this is happening at a time when our society is more complex, more challenging, and more competitive than ever before."

Now is the time to take steps to reduce the number of American youth engaged in health compromising behavior.

The Rising Stars program is designed to engage teens in a group setting to determine their goals and learn more about making the kinds of decisions that will further them on the path to reaching their goals. 

Rising Stars has been offered with great success to communities across the country. Teens who participate in Rising Stars often complete high school with a sense of confidence and purpose. They continue onto college and are able to select a major and career that reflects their values and life goals.

Finally, when it’s time to graduate and enter the work force, young people who’ve completed the Rising Stars program are better prepared for the transition. They are the employees who will take initiative and step up, getting noticed and going places.

Ready to Register? Click here!

The Skinnny

For Rising Stars: Bring Out the Leader in Your Teen 2010-11, we will meet one Saturday a month from October to June.

• October 2, 2010
• November 20, 2010
• December 11, 2010
• January 8, 2011
• February 5, 2011
• March 5, 2011
• April 2, 2011
• May 7, 2011
• June 11, 2011

Our meetings are scheduled from 10am – 12:30pm. During this time, participants will be engaged in learning new concepts that they can put to use in their life. This is the training component of the Rising Stars program.

Between our monthly sessions, we will have two scheduled conference calls for participants to check-in and discuss the changes they are making through implementing what they’ve learned into their daily life. The calls make up the coaching component of our package and will be focused entirely on the immediate needs of the participants. Dates for the conference calls are:

• Thursday October 14^th – 7pm
• Tuesday November 9^th – 7pm
• Tuesday November 30^th – 7pm
• Sunday December 5^th – 4pm
• Thursday December 16^th – 7pm
• Tuesday January 4^th – 7pm
• Wednesday January 19^th – 7pm
• Saturday January 29^th – 11am
• Tuesday February 15^th – 7pm
• Sunday February 27^th – 4pm
• Tuesday March 15^th – 7pm
• Monday March 28^th – 7pm
• Sunday April 10^th – 4pm
• Tuesday April 26^th – 7pm
• Tuesday May 17^th – 7pm
• Tuesday May 31 – 7pm

Cost for the program:

• $300 for materials due at registration and,
• $150 per month, or
• A one-time payment at 10% off for $1215

You can pay $300 now and make your monthly payments starting in October. Your one-time payment for a 10% discount may be made any time before October 2, 2010. Cash, check, and credit card via PayPal are accepted.

With your registration, you get:

• All materials for the course: binder with workbooks, CDs loaded with content
• A guaranteed seat for nine monthly meetings, one Saturday a month 10am – 12:30pm
• Access to two monthly group coaching calls to further develop your leadership skills
• 24 hour email access to both Kaye and Sara

That’s the list of what you get that you can put your hands-on! The real value comes from with the development of your leadership skills.

• Become a better student by better understanding your role as in academics and using learning to achieve your life goals
• Willingly become more involved in school and extracurricular activities
• Participate in more opportunities to enhance your college applications
• Have more fun as you take more control of your life
• Enjoye being looked to as an individual who can make decisions and move ahead
• Improve your relationships with parents, friends, teachers
• Learn to be a team player who can consider the big picture
• Be more prepared for the rigor of the college admissions process
• Get excited about your life – it is what you make of it!

Don’t we all wish we could have had a program like this when we were teens? Think about the impact having strong leadership skills at a young age would have had on your future. Investing in your child’s leadership development now will reap an immeasurable payoff in the future!

Register here today! We’d love to have the teen in your life join us for this unique opportunity to become a Rising Star! Click on the link below to reserve your spot. – Hurry, we only have ten spots!  

We look forward to growing the leadership skills of the teen in your life!

Here's to your future! - Sara and Kaye