Loralyn Mears, PhD
Loralyn Mears, PhD
founder
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Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Bio

I've always been curious. As a PhD scientist, I investigated interesting theories on how to destroy mosquitoes then engaged in a career around market research probing people on the 5 Ws. Finally, late in life, I realized a childhood dream and became an author and a journalist asking questions until I found answers. That led me down the path of founding STEERus, home of the world's first Soft Skills Academy. I founded this HRtech to train Generation Next on the critical soft skills that they're not learning in school to close the gap between education and work. We deliver personalized learning experiences and we have a social impact mission empowering those who have been overlooked and underserved. Today, I'm applying everything that I ever learned and tapping everyone that I've ever met to make a difference in employee engagement, business productivity, recruitment, and retention -- all through the magic of soft skills -- especially curiosity!

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  • STEERus
    River Vale, New Jersey, United States
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Anthony Olver
Apprenant.e
mars 31, 2022
Rétroaction de projet
Preet and I had a great time working together alongside SteerUS. Loralyn, you were wonderful to work with as well as a pleasure. Your program really got us to delve into the skills that are truly neccessary in the day-to-day interactions of the workplace - as we've learned in this scenario, technical skills are not everything - soft skills are very important as well. Thank you for taking the time to work with us and share some of your professional knowledge, Loralyn. We wish you all the best. ~ Anthony and Preet. Lakehead University, Orillia, Ontario.
Lakehead University
Business Communications II
Lakehead University
STEERus
Career Readiness Experience Scenarios
STEERus
Tiffany Yacuta
Tiffany Yacuta
Apprenant.e
décembre 14, 2021
Rétroaction de projet
Thank you so much for this opportunity! STEERus was excellent. Communicated well with me and was always available when I needed them! Thank you!
Capella University
General Psychology: Honors Pathway Internship Program (Fall)
Capella University
STEERus
Career Readiness Experience Scenarios
STEERus
Fahmid Hasan
Fahmid Hasan
Apprenant.e
mars 30, 2022
Rétroaction de projet
The Steerus company has a great vision, trying to help teach students soft skills that are often overlooked in school. The owner is passionate and really wants to help kids succeed, and it shows when speaking with her as she is very enthusiastic whenever she talks about her company.
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STEERus
STEERus
River Vale, New Jersey, United States

Healthcare Training Needs (Nurses & Soft Skills)

Health Information Technology- Identifying and evaluating new software applications and/or technologies to meet needs in the healthcare industry. Students can look at the emerging vertical for health care. What are the desirable product features for healthcare industry, specifically for nurses (since they offer nursing degrees) Desirable product features? Would you expect that we would offer CEUs? Cover what aspects of content? What would be the 10 most desirable course topics for nurses? Is soft skills certification desirable for nurses? How much time would you anticipate spending getting soft skills certification? What course materials/components do you anticipate receiving? What features would characterize each component, in a perfect world? Video on demand? Live lecture Work book? Tests? Time with a coach? Graded homework assignments? Other? For your ideal product, do you feel that it should be provided to you by your university while you are still in school? by your employer through your alumni association obtained on a subscription basis per student What should the pricing be for certification? What should the pricing be for access to STEERus training? Research would include gathering and assessing primary data from nursing students and recent nursing graduates. Deliverables to STEERus would include: data gathered and instruments/methodology they used to gather the data their analysis of the data (methodology, results, conclusions and suggestions based on the analysis)

Jumelages 9
Catégorie Santé + 2
Fermé
STEERus
STEERus
River Vale, New Jersey, United States

End-User Visual Dashboard with Badges & Analytics

We use Metabase on the back-end of our React code-base tracking how many videos are watched, how long they are watched, how many e-Learning courses are completed, what the quiz scores are, etc. But we don't have a nice way for the end-user to visualize what they've completed. So, we need a visual dashboard. And we'd like the end user (learner) to collect and showcase their badges on their dashboard. Students should be prepared to: create a few UI/UX designs to present the analytics as a visual dashboard ideally, begin coding the Dashboard for the end-user

Jumelages 1
Catégorie Leadership + 4
Fermé
STEERus
STEERus
River Vale, New Jersey, United States

Career Readiness Experience Scenarios

We teach soft skills and career readiness. Students learn best through experience so we create scenarios using storytelling by writing role-play scripts (dialogue between two characters) and collect the voice over. Students should be prepared to: research (or take direction) on topics to describe student experience scenarios (most around career readiness) write role-play scripts about 500 words each dialogue between two characters voice-over (find others to do the voice-over work with)

Jumelages 8
Catégorie Média + 4
Fermé
STEERus
STEERus
River Vale, New Jersey, United States

Career Readiness TikToks

We'd like to make learning open and fun via TikTok. We're open to new ideas but our vision is to create an ongoing series of "back & forth" dialogue where students make a TikTok (15-20 sec) asking questions about career readiness or how to use soft skills like EQ, time-management, professionalism, critical thinking, etc in work situations. We'll respond with a STEERus TikTok saying "This is how / this is what we suggest ..." and have some fun making this creative and educational for all who watch our TikToks. Maybe the format is "Dear STEERus - How do I ... ?" Maybe the format is "And then this happened ..." or something else! We're open to fresh thinking! Students should be prepared to: research (or take direction) on topics to describe student experience scenarios (most around career readiness) film 15-20 sec video (at least 1/wk throughout the semester) add captions / music / clipart to the TikToks to make them interesting

Jumelages 2
Catégorie Leadership + 4
Fermé