Making Your Mark, 9th edition by Lisa Fraser

• Available in print and eBook formats
• Comprehensive, student-friendly, concise content: essential success skills
• Engages students in developing academic/career skills and individual strengths
• Instructor materials, including instructor manual, videos, classroom resources
• Train-the-trainer resources

Making Your Mark develops motivated, committed students by:

• Building students’ confidence that they can be successful
• Helping students recognize their current strengths
• Showing them how to transfer these strengths to an academic setting
• Continuing to develop their skill set
• Illustrating the importance of having an organized system
• Developing essential self-management and success skills
• Linking study habits with professional workplace habits
• Developing a support network and key relationships
• Solidifying students’ commitment to persist
• Creating a success plan they can believe in

The success behind student success

Our approach to student success is based on building student confidence, helping students identify the strengths they already have, and continually adding to their individual development and professional skill set. The skills they need to be successful in their academic life are the same ones that will see them through their entire career: good work habits, efficient time management, and an organized system for getting their work done at a high standard. When we make that connection for our students, they begin to make a more solid commitment to their education and to invest in their personal development.

The upbeat, interactive exercises in Making Your Mark take students through the process of seeing the value of an education; developing a college and career plan; and developing the qualities, employability skills and high-performance mindset that will help them be successful at college and throughout their entire career. The exercises are unique, fun, and offer new perspectives on old perceptions that can be limiting. They also encourage students to create the relationships that are essential to their success.

Please feel free to download our training/instructor resources here.