As your children enter their teen years, their need for social and financial education becomes more urgent. The lessons they learn and the habits they establish in their teens years will help to shape the rest of their lives. Mindset Matters, Inc. is dedicated to helping teens develop life skills they need to reach their full potential.
Success for Teens Workshop
Your teenager faces more challenges than any generation before. Mindset Matters, Inc. has partnered with The SUCCESS Foundation to help them face and overcome those challenges. Our Success for Teens Workshop uses the principles of personal development. It enhances skills like: goal setting, dream building, self-motivation, time management, creating high self-esteem, and developing a sense of purpose.
The Success for Teens Workshop modules include:
- Little Things Matter
- Attitude Is Everything
- Use the Moment
- Everything Starts with Small Steps
- There’s No Such Thing as Failure
- Habits Are Powerful
- You’re Always Learning
- Make Your Dreams Come True
Money Smart Workshop
Equipping young people in their formative years with the basics of financial education gives them the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to manage their finances and succeed in the real world.
The Money Smart workshop helps youth ages 13-20 learn the basics of handling their money and finance, and includes how to create positive relationships with banks and other financial institutions.
The Money Smart Workshop modules Include:
- Bank on It: An introduction to bank services
- Check It Out: How to choose and keep a checking account
- Setting Financial Goals: Money Management
- Pay Yourself First: Why you should save, save, save
- Borrowing Basics: An introduction to credit
- Charge It Right: How to make a credit card work for you
- Paying for College and Cars: Installment Loans
- A Roof Over Your Head: Informed decisions on apartments and mortgages
Goal Setting for Teens Workshop
The only way your teenager will know if they’ve achieved something they set out to do is to learn how to set goals. Goals education gives your teen the necessary tools to design a productive life. It teaches them how to be of benefit to themselves, their communities, and future generations.
The Goal Setting for Teens Workshop modules include:
- Goal Setting Fundamentals
- The Anatomy of a Goal
- Character Counts
- The Power of Follow Through
- Focus and Concentration
- Commitments and Accountability
Life Skills for the Socially Savvy Workshop
Very often young people lack basic social skills they need to be successful in the business world.
Most will struggle and learn these lessons the hard way. But today the world is much less forgiving than in times gone by. Safety nets like welfare, bankruptcy, unions, and pensions are becoming a thing of the past.
Every teen needs good manners and proper etiquette to survive in today’s society. These skills are necessary whether they are eating at the local pizza place, interviewing for a spot in a college, dressing to go to a movie, sitting in a court of law, or attending a formal event. Mindset Matters, Inc. uses the Life Skills for The Socially Savvy workshop to prepare your teen for the changing, challenging world we live in. We equip them with basic life skills they need for a successful life.
The Life Skills for the Socially Savvy workshop modules include:
- Meet and Greet Essentials
- Nonverbal Communication
- Rules of the Road
- Please, Thank You, and Your’re Welcome
- Apologies…I’m Sorry and Making Mistakes
- Tact and Discretion
- Rudeness
- The Big Word “No”
- Lack of Affect
- Sharing
- Establishing Boundaries, Propriety (and Sharing)
- Gift Giving and Receiving
- Attending a Party
- Teen Parties
- Table Manners
- Proper Attire
- Good Grooming and Hygiene
- Dealing with Teasing and Bullying
- Skillful Conversationalists
- Cyber Civility and Social Networking
- Dating Etiquette
- Interviewing for College
- Job Interviews
- The Importance of People



