Description
The generation entering the workplace now weren’t taught how to survive, fail, and navigate the hard parts of life. Now they lack critical thinking, communication, and conflict-resolution skills. Small business owners and managers don’t how to bridge the gap.
The 8THIRTYFOUR Skills Survival School is a 90-day employee development program combining in-person facilitation, eLearning, and internal mentor development. Employees from multiple small businesses learn together in cohort sessions, building skills alongside peers from different organizations. A designated person at each company is trained as a mentor to ensure skills transfer to the actual job.
Teaching Skills that Stick
1 Emotional Intelligence Assessment + 4 In-Person Sessions + 5 eLearning Modules + 1 Mentor from Your Organization
8THIRTYFOUR Skills Survival School introduces new concepts in person, backs them up with eLearning, and equips each young professional with a mentor from their actual workplace. They’ll be challenged to learn to make themselves indispensable to their current team and will report on their final reflections directly to their mentor. Did we mention there’s a dashboard so you can monitor their progress in real time? It’s all about accountability and lasting impacts.
Our custom EQ Assessment takes a snapshot of where each young professional is when they start the program.Â
We focus on five core areas:
- Self-awareness
- Self-regulation
- Motivation
- Social awareness
- Social skills
Each in-person session is held at the 8THIRTYFOUR Learning Hub and designed to tackle a specific skill young professionals struggle with.
- Session 1: The Unwritten Rules: professionalism and workplace norms, but not the way you’ve heard them beforeÂ
- Session 2: Say What You Mean:Â communication – written, verbal, and listening. The skill that changes everything.
- Session 3: Fix It:Â problem solving, critical thinking, and healthy conflict – because Google can’t do this for you.
- Session 4: Make Your Move:Â Everything they’ve learned, applied together. This is where it clicks.
Between each session, young professionals will take eLearning courses to reinforce what they’ve learned so far.
- Module 1: Before You Walk In: Sets the tone and introduces the overarching goal of defining what they want from their career.
- Module 2: Read the Room: Provides real workplace scenarios for them to practice navigating.
- Module 3: The Hard Conversation:Â Reinforces communication skills they’ve learned and introduces how to navigate difficult workplace conversations.
- Module 4: Think Through It:Â Introduces new situations that require critical thinking and shows the consequences of their decisions.
- Module 5: 90 Days Later:Â Revisits their career goal and provides a reflection before they present to their mentor.
Each young professional gets a designated person at each company who is trained as a mentor to ensure skills transfer to the actual job.
Survival School addresses the structural gap: we train the mentor. The company retains internal capability to continue development after the 90-day program ends, and employees have access to the 8THIRTYFOUR Schools Hub for ongoing professional development. This is not a one-time intervention but an investment in people, for the long term.
It costs 200% of an employee's salary to replace them.
Join the Founding Cohort
We’re only accepting 8 people into the founding cohort. Instead of full price, we’re offering this opportunity at an adjusted investment. Just agree to provide a case study and testimonial at the end of the cohort to enjoy the adjusted rate.
In-Person Sessions are Held at the 8THIRTYFOUR Learning Hub
In-person session dates include:
- June 10
- June 24
- July 8
- July 22