High School Grads Prepared?

A recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management and the Conference Board acknowledges what many of you may have already suspected: high school students do not have the skills needed in today’s workplace. The biggest deficiencies are in the areas of written and oral communication skills, work ethic, critical thinking, problem solving, and ethics. The biggest problem I hear from my clients and audiences is the lack of common sense which relates directly to critical thinking. No, I don’t have an answer for this problem except to think like Don Shula did when he coached the Dolphins. His idea was to draft the best athlete available and train them for the position. You can’t argue with the success of one of the winningest coaches of all time.