Education & Career

Educational programs are embracing "strengths" as a concept to fuel "ownership" of individual and corporate success. The emphasis in many institutions today is to identify student and employee "strengths"; then give individuals opportunities to confirm their strengths through work or class endeavors. This innovative approach to empowering people is commonly called a "strength-based" approach.

IML DISC Programs, including StudentKeys, use a strengh-based approach in teaching about communication, learning, and motivation and focus on the positive qualities of individuals and how to enhance and maximize those areas.

IML's StudentKeys programs are based on DISC personalities and are valuable tools for educators and parents who want to:

• Identify individual communication styles and enhance communication
• Recognize individual learning styles and enhance learning
• Recognize individual thinking styles and enhance thinking
• Reveal individual motivational needs and motivate students
• Develop effective test-taking and study skills in students
• Identify and encourage leadership qualities
• Build productive teams
• Help students appreciate diversity
• Prevent everyday communication misunderstandings
• Help students choose realistic goals
• Assist students in finding occupations that fulfill the needs of their personality
• Aid in acclimating students from high school to college life
• Increase college retention rates
• Help raise student's GPAs

An independent study found that StudentKeys participants were retained from freshman to sophomore year 7% more than the control group who was not exposed to StudentKeys materials. The same study found StudentKeys participant's GPAs higher than control group participants.