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The Great Leap
Forward meets
compliance and
AACSB
certification
requirements for
ethics and
diversity training.
Forward meets
compliance and
AACSB
certification
requirements for
ethics and
diversity training.
Empowering Students for the
Workplace of the New
Millennium
Workplace of the New
Millennium
Victoria Pilate, Ph.D.
The Great Leap Forward
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The book is designed to empower students to enter the
workforce. It covers all the major issues of transitioning from
hiring success but covers the more crucial and often missed
issues of office politics and professional etiquette. I cover things
that are essential to know but may not be in an employee manual
like business travel tips and dressing for success in the office.
Because it’s based on real life situations, readers get more than
a rundown of facts and figures.
I cover many of the same issues as some career books. In the
book, I hit the basics of the job hunt and finding an apartment,
but I also took it a step further and discussed essential issues
like office politics and business etiquette. I haven’t seen another
book that puts job hunting, office politics, grooming, business
travel, and presentations in the same book. It’s different also in
that I used my own experiences as well as those of 200 plus
other people. I also used a fair amount of secondary research. I
combed journals and news sources from Harvard Business
Review through NIH data.
Just what is the Great Leap Forward?
The Great Leap Forward is a lecture program for colleges,
universities and other organizations. The goal of the program is
to empower students and new hires to compete in the workforce.
It touches on competition in the hiring process but deals more so
with life on the job. Competitive edge issues such as diversity
and ethical behavior as well as professional etiquette are areas
emphasis for the program.
With the typical lecture, I provide a lecture, group exercises and
a copy of Dorm Rooms to Boardrooms. Some universities have
opted to receive the lecture only; in those cases, I give to
students a limited number of complimentary copies of Dorm
Rooms to Boardrooms at the lecture's conclusion-- usually on a
first come-first serve basis. The group exercises are real-life
situations, effectively ripped from the headlines.
The Great Leap Forward is also available for employers. It
augments the orientation program for new hires or can be used
for professional development training for interns and co-ops.
So why would a university or academic program buy the
Great Leap Forward?
The benefits are far reaching. On one hand, it benefits the
students in giving them an extra edge in preparing for and
entering the work world. It also benefits universities in that it
expands the services available to its students and graduates. By
empowering students to become fully engaged in their careers,
universities benefit themselves in that alumni in great jobs are
alumni who can better support their alma mater. It also expands
the attractiveness of a school or program to prospective
students. Few could turn down a school that provides stellar
academic preparation then goes the extra mile to provide career
preparation beyond that which a typical university's career
services center would provide.
For Schools of Business, the program meets AASCB
requirements for ethics and diversity training. In addition for
HBCUs and tribal colleges, the program can be molded to meet
Title III requirements for ethics and diversity training.
Students in our field have the best job market in years.
Would you still recommend the program for our students?
Yes. A great job market is one thing; being enabled to
understand and negotiate the demands of on-the-job pressures
is another. The normal services provided by career centers
focus on interview preparation. The next step of on-the-job
success is often a distance second.
On average, a fifth of new hires will wash out during their first few
years on the job. Much of that is involuntary attrition. Inability to
cope with the office politics cannot be underrated as a career
impediment. Likewise, knowing how to compete in the workplace
invariably is unanticipated by the average new hire.
Are all students who read your book or attend the Great
Leap Forward seniors?
No, about half of schools have wanted the book for
underclassmen. Two schools bought it for its freshmen. The
goal was to start developing students early. Much of what is in
Dorm Rooms to Boardrooms can be used early in college years;
office politics exist even in work study jobs and internships. Just
about every Dean of Students has heard an earful of battling
roommates whose problems could have been solved early on
with some gentle advice to both parties.
Dorm Rooms to Boardrooms has been used for internship
training and courses in professional development training.
workforce. It covers all the major issues of transitioning from
hiring success but covers the more crucial and often missed
issues of office politics and professional etiquette. I cover things
that are essential to know but may not be in an employee manual
like business travel tips and dressing for success in the office.
Because it’s based on real life situations, readers get more than
a rundown of facts and figures.
I cover many of the same issues as some career books. In the
book, I hit the basics of the job hunt and finding an apartment,
but I also took it a step further and discussed essential issues
like office politics and business etiquette. I haven’t seen another
book that puts job hunting, office politics, grooming, business
travel, and presentations in the same book. It’s different also in
that I used my own experiences as well as those of 200 plus
other people. I also used a fair amount of secondary research. I
combed journals and news sources from Harvard Business
Review through NIH data.
Just what is the Great Leap Forward?
The Great Leap Forward is a lecture program for colleges,
universities and other organizations. The goal of the program is
to empower students and new hires to compete in the workforce.
It touches on competition in the hiring process but deals more so
with life on the job. Competitive edge issues such as diversity
and ethical behavior as well as professional etiquette are areas
emphasis for the program.
With the typical lecture, I provide a lecture, group exercises and
a copy of Dorm Rooms to Boardrooms. Some universities have
opted to receive the lecture only; in those cases, I give to
students a limited number of complimentary copies of Dorm
Rooms to Boardrooms at the lecture's conclusion-- usually on a
first come-first serve basis. The group exercises are real-life
situations, effectively ripped from the headlines.
The Great Leap Forward is also available for employers. It
augments the orientation program for new hires or can be used
for professional development training for interns and co-ops.
So why would a university or academic program buy the
Great Leap Forward?
The benefits are far reaching. On one hand, it benefits the
students in giving them an extra edge in preparing for and
entering the work world. It also benefits universities in that it
expands the services available to its students and graduates. By
empowering students to become fully engaged in their careers,
universities benefit themselves in that alumni in great jobs are
alumni who can better support their alma mater. It also expands
the attractiveness of a school or program to prospective
students. Few could turn down a school that provides stellar
academic preparation then goes the extra mile to provide career
preparation beyond that which a typical university's career
services center would provide.
For Schools of Business, the program meets AASCB
requirements for ethics and diversity training. In addition for
HBCUs and tribal colleges, the program can be molded to meet
Title III requirements for ethics and diversity training.
Students in our field have the best job market in years.
Would you still recommend the program for our students?
Yes. A great job market is one thing; being enabled to
understand and negotiate the demands of on-the-job pressures
is another. The normal services provided by career centers
focus on interview preparation. The next step of on-the-job
success is often a distance second.
On average, a fifth of new hires will wash out during their first few
years on the job. Much of that is involuntary attrition. Inability to
cope with the office politics cannot be underrated as a career
impediment. Likewise, knowing how to compete in the workplace
invariably is unanticipated by the average new hire.
Are all students who read your book or attend the Great
Leap Forward seniors?
No, about half of schools have wanted the book for
underclassmen. Two schools bought it for its freshmen. The
goal was to start developing students early. Much of what is in
Dorm Rooms to Boardrooms can be used early in college years;
office politics exist even in work study jobs and internships. Just
about every Dean of Students has heard an earful of battling
roommates whose problems could have been solved early on
with some gentle advice to both parties.
Dorm Rooms to Boardrooms has been used for internship
training and courses in professional development training.