Transform Negativity and Create a Positive School Culture Where Teachers and Students Thrive Individually and Together!

Are you on The Path? Are you preparing kids for success in the world outside of school?

We create passionate, encouraging, inspirational, and growth-oriented culture change that empowers students and staff to succeed.

Our A-Team is here to guide you in creating that brings out the best in everyone. With our support, teachers, administrators, students, and schools can all thrive in a positive environment 

and growth culture.

School culture refers to the beliefs, values, norms, and customs that guide student behavior and attitudes towards learning, teachers and administrators alike. It shapes how people interact with one another, performance expectations are set, and success is celebrated. A positive school culture is marked by a sense of belongingness, shared values, and an emphasis on growth and well-being for all members of its community.

Remember, cultivating a positive school culture is not just a goal but a powerful tool for enhancing student and staff well-being. The benefits are clear: higher student achievement, greater teacher satisfaction and retention, improved school-community relations, and enhanced social and emotional development for students. It's a win-win for everyone involved.

Imagine a world in which children begin the process of gaining self-awareness in grade school, junior high, and high school. 

There are two programs: the Grade School Program (Ages 8 - 12) and the JH/HS Student Program. 

(Ages 12 -18). 

JH/HS Student Program

Ages: 12 - 18

Curriculum for Teaching Personality in the Classroom. This curriculum gives teachers everything they need to lead interactive lessons that teach 12 to 18-year-old students about their personality styles. The Teacher’s Guide and Supplemental Materials are filled with exercises that bring the styles to life as children learn about themselves and how to interact with people of all styles.

The Taking Flight Student Profile takes a comprehensive look at your style based on the Eagle, Parrot, Dove, and Owl styles. The profile provides an in-depth analysis of your motivational characteristics, your distinctive value to a team, how you relate to other styles under stress, which styles you are most compatible with at school, and your unique strengths and challenges.

This Student Profile includes information on Making Career Decisions and Planning Your Career Path. This section is linked to O*NET, a database of occupational job titles, and provides a list of careers that correlate with the individual’s style.

The Taking Flight with DISC Student Profile features the Eagle, Parrot, Dove, and Owl bird characters from Merrick Rosenberg’s books Taking Flight!, Flight School, Which Bird Are You, and The Chameleon: Student Edition.

 Grade School Program

 Ages: 8 - 12

The Which Bird Are You?: Curriculum for Teaching Personality in the Classroom provides everything they need to lead interactive with 8—to 12-year-old children about their personality styles. The Teacher’s Guide and Supplemental Materials are filled with exercises that bring the styles to life as children learn about themselves and how to interact with people of all styles.

Picture how parents would raise that child if they genuinely understood their child’s behavior and needs. What kind of impact would teachers and coaches have if they knew how to guide that child through the most important life lessons? 

For decades, adults have seen the power of taking behavioral assessments to learn about themselves. But these powerful tools haven’t been available to children…until now.

The Which Bird Are You? Kids DISC Profile includes three sections: one for the child, one for the child’s parents, and one for the child’s teachers and coaches. 

The profile report begins with an explanation of the four bird styles. Children, parents, and teachers will learn about the traits, tendencies, and needs of Eagles, Parrots, Doves, and Owls. They will gain insight into what each style focuses on, listens for, and dislikes. They will discover how each style takes risks, seeks to be rewarded, and responds to stressful or challenging situations. The report includes a graph representing the child’s style and an action planning guide for children, parents, and teachers/coaches.

Children will learn how they act at school and deal with schoolwork. They will discover how they interact with friends and family and approach sports and extracurricular activities. They will gain valuable tips on interacting with people of all four styles.

Parents will gain a deeper understanding of what children of each style need and how each style acts when they become adults. Personalized content includes a parenting overview of how their child would like to be treated based on their bird style. Parents will gain helpful tips for keeping their children safe, helping them build stronger relationships, and being successful in school.

Teachers and coaches will discover how to work with all four styles. Then, they will gain specific strategies for helping the child learn, gain confidence, improve skills, and cultivate strong relationships.

"Student leaders become future world leaders. Understanding people’s communication and interaction styles is a critical skill for college students that will greatly benefit them throughout their lives. Taking Flight! and your training programs should be welcome at every higher-ed institution!"

Associate Director, 

Princeton University

An education system isn't successful until all children, regardless of background and resources, can reach their potential. Building schools where students achieve greater things isn't about focusing on a select few and pushing them to excel. It's about fostering a culture that allows all students to grow intellectually and thrive emotionally. 

The quality and outcomes of education in Finland are among the Best in the World. 

Our A-Team can help you implement the best-in-class education in Finland at your school. Design your school to bring out the best in students!  

Here are some aspects that make Finnish education special and set it apart from other education systems in the world:

The Finnish education system is built on the egalitarian principle of good-quality universal education that is free, inclusive, and comprehensive. The same educational opportunities are available to all citizens irrespective of ethnic origin, wealth, or place of residence.

The Finnish system is not rigid le. It is based on lifelong learning, ensuring that there are no dead ends. Learners can always continue their studies to an upper level of education, providing endless opportunities for growth.

Teachers are highly trained, with special emphasis on research-informed studies in pedagogical sciences. They are also given broad autonomy to decide how they teach and what resources they use. 

We are ready to share our know-how and build new solutions to global and local challenges. 

With a partnership mindset, we focus on capacity building, curriculum development, and re-modeling school systems through consultancy services to districts, education authorities, schools, and educational organizations. 

We believe this leads to inspiring learning environments where learners have an active role in what and how they learn and genuinely hold the key to unlocking their potential. 

Empower principals, teachers, staff, and students with the tools and knowledge needed to cultivate a school culture 

that fosters individual and collective growth.

Neutralize Negativity

Energize Teachers & Staff

Create a Positive Culture

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Based on Jon Gordon's mega-best-selling book, The Energy Bus, the Energy Bus for Schools program is designed to fuel your school, teachers, and students with positive energy.

Research clearly shows that culture and leadership greatly influence a school’s learning environment and students’ academic success. That’s why we work hand in hand with you to create a school culture where school leaders, students, and educators develop as positive leaders and energize your school culture together. We are serious about results but also help you have fun and share positive energy.

We believe in enjoying the ride and hope you do too! Positive school climates are linked to increased high school graduation rates, turnarounds in low-performing schools, reduced school violence, and improved communication among students, families, and faculty.

• Activate The Positive Competitive Advantage with proven tools for success.

• Join our community of hundreds of schools from around the country.

• Receive resources, curriculum, and activities to bring The Energy Bus principles to life.

• Access monthly group coaching sessions with our Energy Bus for school leaders to discover best practices.

• And much more!

Thousands of schools, teachers, and students have benefited 

from The Energy Bus. 

Take action and contact our team today to discover how we can assist in transforming your school and culture.

John Wooden was an English teacher first, who also happened to be a coach.

Are you a school principal, athletic director, or teacher looking to develop/build the character of your students and staff, or is a school district looking for a leadership program for your department heads?

Tools for Anyone Interested in Developing Character that Builds a Culture of  Competitive Greatness...the John Wooden Way

Everyone needs a coach. A coach helps you improve how you think about yourself and the opportunities you have in your life.

A coach effectively coaches their own life and models correct behavior for teaching, leading, and mentoring others.

For individuals, we offer an assessment and self-paced tools to improve their thinking and develop competitive greatness.

Coach Wooden defined Success:

“Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made an effort to do the best of which you’re capable.”

• For individuals, we offer an assessment and self-paced tools to improve the way you think.

• We offer assessments and programs for schools to re-calibrate what true success looks like in their classrooms and communities.

If you Google “greatest coaches of all time,” you’ll see a lot of debate on who the #1 is, but there is no debate on who the #1 is. It is Coach John Wooden.

Coach Wooden has accolades that are too lengthy for this website and unnecessary for us to list.

Spend time with and experience the wisdom, wit, remarkable character, and insights of arguably the greatest coach ever.

The Wooden Way is dedicated to Coach John Wooden's principles and values, including, but not limited to, his Pyramid of Success.

John Wooden was selected as one of the "50 Greatest Coaches of All Time."

The Wooden Way Program offers a framework that can transform your school's culture and students' character. This will get everyone on the same path to pursuing true success.

The Wooden Way is this:

A path to realizing your full potential is to be your best while helping, serving, and making an effort to become and coaching others to become their best.

On the path, we are guided by:

• A Set of Core Values: Foundations and fundamentals for life and work
• The Pyramid of Success: A complete model for the day-to-day behavior that creates character, competence, consideration, and extraordinary performance
• A Coaching Model: First for yourself and then for others
• Action: Five complete sets of actions that direct and improve:
  
  1. How you think
  2. The example you set
  3. How you teach
  4. How you lead
  5. How you mentor

The Wooden Way is a path where excellence is the standard and perfection is the destination.

The Wooden Way Organizational Excellence diagram illustrates how it all comes together for individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations.

Invite our A-Team to give a powerful keynote presentation at your next school assembly, and we will help you implement this curriculum in school, home rooms, before/after school clubs, or as a school culture initiative. 

For the past few years, we have made it our mission to help youth acquire the fundamental life skills and personal development philosophies necessary for success in school and in life. One of the best tools I have found for achieving this is the slight edge philosophy, which is taught in the book Success for Teens—Real Teens Talk About Using the Slight Edge.

This excellent book, and from more than 40 years of teaching its philosophy, has positively influenced hundreds of thousands of lives, encouraging people to do those simple, little disciplines that can change their lives for the better forever.

The fundamentals taught in this book are NOT taught in high school or college. When applied, this is the secret to a successful life. These pages provide the time-tested principles that will allow you to excel in all areas of your life—your health, finances, career, personal relationships, and family life. You’ll learn essential skills such as goal-setting, time management, and self-motivation to help you reach new levels of achievement. And, best of all, you have the benefit of youth to get the most from these life-changing principles.

The foundation for the slight edge philosophy comes down to this: You can create any life you want, no matter how difficult it may seem, by understanding how small, positive steps make a difference over time. It’s the things you do every day that don’t even seem to matter... that do matter most. In this book, you’ll learn that through the eight slight edge principles that teach you:

• Little Things Matter
• Attitude Is Everything
• It would be best if you used the Moment
• Everything Starts with Small Steps

 There’s No Such Thing As Failure  Habits Are Powerful
 You’re Always Learning
 You Can Make Your

Dreams Come True

I know that once you read these pages, you will understand that little things matter, your choices are essential, and you can make dreams come true.

The Taking Flight with DISC training program is a unique and high-energy training experience where individuals learn about themselves and others. This is not your typical DISC session. We have written the book on thing a fresh and innovative approach that will pique your interest in DISC styles and reinvented DISC training.

The Taking Flight with DISC program breathes new life into the tried and true DISC model by linking the DISC styles to four birds. First introduced by Merrick Rosenberg in his book Taking Flight!, the birds add colorful energy and help create a memorable session for participants. By linking Eagles to the Dominant (D) style, Parrots to the Interactive (I) style, Doves to the Supportive (S) style, and Owls to the Conscientious (C) style, people remember the styles like never before. And if people are going to apply new wisdom, they have to remember it! A year from now, when people ask questions like, “What does the D stand for?” they will still recall that the eagle’s personality is direct, decisive, daring, and driven.

This high-energy training program makes self-awareness simple and intuitive, enabling people to quickly remember the styles and apply new skills. The result is that participants can flex their style to communicate more effectively and respectfully with the people in their lives.

The Taking Flight with DISC training program is based on the tried-and-true DISC personality styles model as represented by Eagles (the Dominant D style), Parrots (the Interactive I style), Doves (the Supportive S style), and Owls (the Conscientious C style). Instead of using letters that have to be memorized, the birds are intuitive. For example, think of an Eagle – confidence, directness, and a bottom-line orientation are self-evident. Now, think of the letter D. Obviously, this does not convey these traits (or any traits for that matter). The birds' intuitive nature and “stickiness” allow yles and instantly remember them over the long connect with stterm.

Before the training program, participants complete the online Taking Flight with DISC Profile. The personalized report is distributed during the session and helps individuals understand their natural tendencies, needs, strengths, and potential blind spots. The report offers potent insights into dealing with other styles and how people can better manage potentially tricky situations.

While most DISC training programs focus on teaching people the DISC model, they fail to create stronger relationships or drive better results. Instead of focusing on memorizing letters and models, the Taking Flight with DISC program promotes new skill development by linking the styles to essential core skills. Since neuroscience states at wire together fire, the Taking Flight with DISC session wires DISC to existing knowledge, allowing the styles to trigger right when needed.

Participants will learn how to utilize the four styles when communicating and listening to others, providing feedback, taking risks, coping with stress, dealing with change, managing time, working in teams, and more. By building on existing knowledge, Take Flight Learning’s brain-friendly approach makes new DISC insights immediately accessible when needed, empowering you to apply your new skills in real-life situations.

The Taking Flight with DISC training program is filled with laughter and learning as engaging activities allow participants to experience the DISC styles in action. Through interactive exercises, participants discover how often they impose their style on others and how the simple shift to treating people how they need to be treated will strengthen relationships and increase effectiveness, keeping you engaged and excited about the learning process.

"The Taking Flight with DISC training has enhanced our communication, productivity, and, most importantly, culture. Take Flight Learning has contributed to the success of our organization, and Taking Flight! is required reading for current and new team members. Thank you for positively impacting our culture."

CEO, Allied Heath Media

Emotional intelligence, often called EI or EQ, refers to the ability to perceive, recognize, evaluate, understand, and control our emotions. EQ allows us to choose how we think, feel, and act. Emotional Intelligence will enable us to manage our own emotions and positively influence the feelings of others. 

While IQ is relatively stable throughout an individual’s adult life, EQ can be boosted through increased awareness and practice. IQ is often the ticket for admission to get schooling for a job. However, EQ determines how successful someone will be at that job. 

Cumulated data from 40 studies looked at the personal traits and business success of more than 65,000 entrepreneurs. The studies considered EQ and cognitive performance, as well as measures of business success like revenue/profit, company growth, and company size. Researchers found that general mental ability explained 11 percent of entrepreneurial success, while Emotional Intelligence explained 89 percent. The data is precise: EQ is a powerful predictor and driver of success. 

Emotional intelligence captures the ability to perceive, understand, evaluate, and manage emotions. 

The Taking Flight with EQ Profile combines two assessments into one report. First, individuals complete the Taking Flight Profile. (If they’ve already finished it, there’s no need to retake it.) Then, they complete a series of questions to assess their level of Emotional Intelligence. The report integrates the results to explain how someone with their style will likely understand, manage, and leverage their emotions. 

The report includes a graph of the individual’s bird style (graph 3 of the Taking Flight Profile) and a series of scores that measure their level of Emotional Intelligence. Individuals will receive a comprehensive score that captures their overall EQ. They also receive scores for each of the four components of EQ, including Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management. In addition, they get scores for each of the Talents that make up the four Components. 

For each EQ Component, individuals understand what that Component looks like with high and low EQ based on their specific style. For example, someone with a Parrot/Dove style will discover how a Parrot/Dove looks with both high and low Self-Awareness. By including individuals' high and low aspects, we can see what they will be like in Component, an evolved and unevolved state. 

Finally, we know that coaches would indeed personalize coaching questions to help turn insights gained in the report into an improvement plan. We bring a coach’s mindset to action planning through dynamic action planning. 

Each report contains action planning questions selected based on the individual’s style. So, while an Eagle may be asked questions to help them increase emotional clarity and empathy, a Dove may be asked questions to help them boost confidence and increase influence. 

Effective Teamwork

Can Be Your Greatest
Competitive Advantage

89% of The Five Behaviors learners say it improved their team’s effectiveness

The Five Behaviors Team 

Building Program

As the workplace evolves, so do team dynamics. It is more critical than ever to give your team the skills they need to work together effectively, regardless of where they are working.

The Five Behaviors® solutions can help you activate your team’s ability to drive results through cohesive teamwork, whether it is with our 

Our personal Development solution helps individuals learn the skills they need to “team” effectively, or our Team Development solution helps intact teams gain the know-how to work better together.

Both solutions use best-selling author Patrick Lencioni’s teamwork model, which focuses on Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results. 

This framework combines personalized insights to create powerful, customized, and authentic team development solutions that empower teams and individuals to make lasting changes.

Build a Culture of Teamwork or Develop a Cohesive Intact Team

It helps individuals better understand themselves and others so that they can work effectively on any team. It also helps participants better understand themselves, the personalities on their team, and how they can effectively work together.

Benefits

Individuals Learn How to "Team" Effectively. Team and Culture Transformation. Employee Development at All Levels. Helping intact Teams Gain the Skills. Effectively Improving Team Productivity. Addressing t to Work Togetheeam Dysfunction.

Who

Anyone

Longevity of Team

No Requirements Programs and Programs designed for teams with a 6-week minimum tenure

"I’ve taken so much training from so many different people in the past, and I can honestly say this is the only program I’ve ever taken where what I learned is implemented and used to this day."

Alyson McCarthy,

CEO Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas