FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Kick-Start Kids Into Business And Pre-Career Thinking |
Toronto, Canada and Seattle Washington, May 08, 2001
TeachingKidsBusiness.com e-Mentors Today's Youth With Business Skills and Career Preparation. TeachingKidsBusiness.com recently launched their website to teach kids business skills, career preparation and facilitate pre-career experience. This is delivered in an easy to navigate, fun and unique internet initiative that engages kids with quality content, thought provoking activities, games, responsibilities and opportunities. Businesses have proven the success of using training programs to develop adults for generations. Think of all the training resources that are available and the positive impact they could have on kids if they had the exposure to these resources. Kids could flourish in many positive ways! TeachingKidsBusiness.com has created a website which partners with businesses and other community members to adapt & develop training techniques and career preparation for kids at an early age (8 to 18). The website has been described as "a portal for kids to explore business and careers," "impressed... with your foresight into kids needs," "an inspiration," Wow," "it's much more then teaching kids business" and a "24/7 mentor." "Kids have enormous potential. If we provide them with business related training and experience opportunities, we will be amazed at what they can accomplish and what we in turn can learn from them," acknowledges Jeff M. Brown, Founder and President of TeachingKidsBusiness.com. If kids are exposed to programs like time management, stress management, problem solving, character-building, attitude development, and thinking approaches they will carry these skills with them into their daily challenges. These and other training programs are being developed and offered to kids free of charge through www.teachingkidsbusiness.com. Experience is another key area where kids need more opportunities. It is hard for kids to get good experience and make the best of their experiences. We need to develop "experience opportunities" that are respectful, relevant and positive for kids. There are many studies that suggest that the environment that kids grow up in is very influential in shaping who they become. Lets take the same thinking and create great pre-career and work environments for kids, to help them succeed! As a community enhancement initiative we will all benefit . In the short-term, as kid's business related skills develop, their new found skills and confidence will have a positive effect on managing their daily lives. In the long- term we will benefit from the success of kids who are well prepared for their careers and aligned with a good career-fit. Explore www.teachingkidsbusiness.com and help kids kick-start their career preparation thinking early. About TeachingKidsBusiness.com TeachingKidsBusiness.com provides kids with "tools", "experiences", and support from "community involvement". These components will engage and inspire kids to discover their talents and to develop & prepare for career and business opportunities for their eventual working lives. We provide an online environment that is non-pressured, safe, positive, interactive, respectful, stimulating, fun, educational and rewarding. We will demonstrate that Kids can do amazing things when we give them a chance, even in business! The "Resource Center" provides a number of "tools" for kids. The tools introduce concepts, provide them in a context that kids can relate to, use activities to reinforce the concepts and allow kids to apply them in their pre-career lives. The tools include very innovative training techniques such as Improvisation used in progressive companies, doodling, character building, thinking, career coaching, job fit , stress management and many more. "Business Encounters" provides kids with "experience opportunities". We feel that gaining experience is a key to success and recognize how difficult it is for kids to gain experience. TeachingKidsBusiness.com is developing a number of "experience programs" such as Just for Clicks Business Game™, Business Case Studies, Caddie Program, Career Experience at TeachingKidsBusiness.com and a Kid's Community Service Program which are all designed to create positive experience opportunities. The "Community Involvement" section is developing to invite community members to help kids learn about business and prepare for careers. There is such a wealth of information and advice in our communities, and when we channel it through the TeachingKidsBusiness.com website, we will have a great impact on many kids. Our community includes many groups, like seniors who can share their advice with kids, golfers who could talk to kids about career preparation as a child caddies for them, business people who could participate in our "e-Mentoring Program for Kids" by providing a career profile and advice to kids on career preparation and educators who could use this programming as a business partnership initiative to enhance curriculum . With the participation of Youth Service Groups we can provide our programming to kids who don't have internet access or limited adult mentoring and educational resources. The "Info Center" provides information for background, press releases, strategic and corporate related matters. This section will help the media and users understand the underlying philosophies of this community enhancement initiative. Just For Clicks Business Game™ "has been developed for kids to have fun creating a digital product and business. TeachingKidsBusiness.com is currently developing KidsE-Marketplace.com which is a "Kid's Marketplace" that will allow kids to experience the launch of a business and further develop their business skills and experience. The Kid's Marketplace is the next natural business step to teach kids business. Youth Empowerment is in the forefront of the developed of the website. Kids are encouraged to participate and be heard in a range of opportunities throughout the website. TeachingKidsBusiness.com is creating many opportunities for kids to explore and prepare for careers, for many people to get involved in developing or distributing content and to use the internet in a constructive way that can reach and positively influence many kids in an efficient and cost effective way. For more information, go to the website at www.teachingkidsbusiness.com, e-mail us at: info@teachingkidsbusiness.com, or contact Jeff M. Brown directly, by mailto:info@teachingkidsbusiness.com or by phoning 905-830-9936.
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