The Critical Skills You Need for the New Normal
In a time where we don’t know what the future holds, investing in your skills is the smartest move. There is nothing like training and preparation to boost your confidence and increase your ability to succeed in the months to come.
John Robert Powers is offering a range of expert-led, online courses for personal and professional success that combines individual attention with the convenience and safety of at-home learning.
We teach the fundamentals of bringing out your best self in our programs. At its core, our process combines an emphasis on both the holistic and the practical. It starts with an assessment of how to develop the unique strengths within. We then focus on practical training that gives our students the tools to implement their transformation on a daily basis. The result is a track record of success over the last 100 years, including over 10,000 students in the Philippines. We are excited to be able to offer this expertise in a high-quality, online learning format. Here are the expert-led online courses available for the following ages:
For Kids and Pre-teens:
Younger Kids (6-8) and Pre-Teens (9-12) are treated to a stimulating and creative program covering a variety of important life-skills such as self-expression and communication, resilience and coping skills, cooperation, and sharing, as well as social graces and caring behavior towards others.
The time your kids will spend now will result in tools that can help them to better cope with current challenges, and also equip them with skills that are the foundation of a lifetime of success.
What students will learn:
- Growing self-esteem and self-confidence
- Developing self-awareness and a healthy appreciation of their individuality
- Nurturing a positive and optimistic mindset
- Managing emotions and being resilient
- Self-expression and Communication
- How to express their personal opinion positively and without fear of judgment
- How to listen and respond to others with confidence
- Positive self-image
- Taking care of how you appear: the importance of grooming
- Dressing to feel at your best
- Good manners and thinking of others
- The importance of kindness and consideration
- Knowing how to relate to elders and behaving in public
For Teens:
An online program designed to be a fun and highly interactive environment, offering a JRP coaching experience to each student. With so many teens at home, there is no better time to spend a few hours every week developing the skills that will help your teen pursue life, social and academic goals with greater confidence and savvy.
What you’ll learn:
- Personal Transformation and Self-Awareness: Understanding who you are and how to develop your unique strengths
- Image Development: how people see you and how to project the image of you at your best
- Effective Communications: how to express yourself and connect with others
- Social Graces: how to relate to others across a wide range of scenarios (school friends, peers, teachers, older relative)
For Young Adults, Adults, and Executives:
THE NEW YOU FOR THE NEW NORMAL
Now more than ever, having confidence in presenting yourself—online or in-person—is a critical element for success. How do you distinguish yourself and make your mark? How do you make sure YOU are the one who is remembered for the position or the promotion? How do you build confidence, so you can win the room and thrive in any situation?
Personal Branding is a comprehensive, online personality development course designed to help you succeed in today’s changing world.
What you’ll learn:
- Identifying and honing your individual, authentic strengths
- Image management and development: how to maximize the impact of your image
- Communications skills: becoming a persuasive communicator
- Social skills: navigating professional and social environments with confidence
The ability to communicate well has always been a key to success in almost any profession. In uncertain times, a confident communicator has an even greater advantage. The ability to be clear, concise, and persuasive stands out and wins trust in any era. Learning to be an effective communicator is one of the best investments to get ahead in today’s world.
Effective Communications is a course that specializes in the transformative power of knowing how to communicate. It is designed to provide the strongest foundations for public speaking and presentation.
What you’ll learn:
- Foundations of being a good communicator and public speaker
- Individual assessment and development of communications style
- Mechanics of communications: verbal and non-verbal elements
- Connecting with your audience: active listening and communicating
Few things have a more immediate impact on career advancement or professional success than confidence and mastery when speaking in front of an audience. This is as true today in the era of Zoom meetings as it was in the past. Fortunately, the fundamentals of being a strong presenter apply in the online space as well as in the real world.
The Confident Public Speaker is designed for students with an existing foundation in Effective Communications, or for the student with experience in basic communications.
What you’ll learn:
- Essentials of good public speaking and presentation, with special focus on how to adapt these skills to digital platforms
- The key elements of public speaking: content and flow voice control, breathing, and gesture
- Mastering different speaking scenarios: meetings, pitches, presentations, class reports, virtual public speaking
Around the world, English is the language of business. A confident English communicator has the keys to a wider world of professional opportunities.
Business Communications is designed to develop confident English speakers who are at ease in a wide variety of business and corporate settings, including both written and oral contexts.
What you’ll learn:
- Grammar and correct usage (oral and written) in business or corporate settings
- Business writing skills including writing business letters, memos, and e-mails
- The Art of Conversation, such as understanding and using must-know business phrases and knowing how to run effective business meetings
Learning the building blocks and the core structure of English is the pathway to true confidence in the language.
Grammar and Correct Usage is a specialized course that offers a comprehensive focus on correct grammar and usage, in both oral and written functions in corporate or business setting.
What you’ll learn:
- Exploring the mechanics of English syntax, grammar, and usage in both oral and written communications
- Explaining common written and oral mistakes
- Becoming a confident speaker and reducing anxiety in common scenarios such as situational conversations, telephone exchanges, business meetings and presentations
Inspire others with the best you! Talk to one of our program consultants NOW.
First Get-together At Virlanie Foundation
February 20, 2019 | 9:10 AM
What happens next after being a JRP graduate?
Aside from putting to good use their knowledge and skills, they also get the chance to make a difference in the lives of others as they become part of John Robert Powers (JRP) Alumni community.
For its first get-together dubbed as “The Red Mark Project,” the JRP Alumni Community partnered with Virlanie Foundation for a day of fun and learning last September 22 at the Marco Polo Care Center (MPCC). MPCC is one of Virlanie Foundation’s homes for babies and young children.
A JRP Alumni Community volunteer talked to the children about proper etiquette. (right); Not only did the children beneficiaries enjoy their meal, they also received lessons on proper table manners. (left)
Volunteers – composed of JRP 2018 graduates and JRP staff and facilitators – enjoyed playing games with the children of MPCC. The youngsters also engaged in interactive learning sessions on how to carry themselves with confidence, as well as the basic rules of proper etiquette.
At the same event, Virlanie Foundation and JRP marked the beginning of their long-term partnership with a ceremonial contract signing. Catch a glimpse of The Red Mark Project’s highlights here.
Volunteers – composed of JRP 2018 graduates and JRP staff and facilitators – enjoyed playing games with the children of MPCC. The youngsters also engaged in interactive learning sessions on how to carry themselves with confidence, as well as the basic rules of proper etiquette.
At the same event, Virlanie Foundation and JRP marked the beginning of their long-term partnership with a ceremonial contract signing. Catch a glimpse of The Red Mark Project’s highlights here.
The Red Mark Project is the first-ever outreach event of the John Robert Powers Alumni Community. This serves as an avenue for JRP alumni to apply their skills, values, and competencies to make an impact on society. Its purpose is to leave a Powers mark, one community at a time.
Virlanie Foundation, through its various support programs, cares for children in need of special protection– those who are among the poor, abandoned, abused, exploited, neglected, and orphaned.
You, too, can join this journey! Sign up here to join the JRP Alumni Community and receive the latest news about upcoming events, and get exclusive perks from John Robert Powers.