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About Success Orientations Publishing

"The Success Orientations Model keeps working!"

These words started Success Orientations Publishing. People in a variety of life contexts find value from the model as it helps them gain new insights. These insights help them make life and career decisions, understand their partner, children, parents, friends, peers, employees, bosses, teachers, coaches, religious leaders, government leaders, and other important people who affect their life.

"I always thought I was relationship oriented. Now I understand that I am really more goal oriented! "

- A real estate agent after one of the Success Orientation workshops. This insight can help the agent focus more on relationships as a tool for building referrals and long term success!

The success orientations model is the work of Paul J. Kurucz, who first tried to make sense of why many people struggle in systems that didn't seem to fit them and against other people who don't work to achieve things the same way they do. Patterns emerged in his mind over the years as different types of students seemed to appear to behave in repeatable ways, depending on how they attacked learning challenges and finding work upon graduation. These patterns became clearer as Paul brought cultural groups, life-stage, and generation factors into the model, resulting in the "process", "relationship" and "goal" orientation success orientations.

"Every parent should learn about success orientations before starting to homeschool their children!"

...said one parent who had been frustrated over her home schooled son's differences from how she herself would go about doing things. She shared this example with Paul:

"I get frustrated when helping him do his newspaper route. I do one side of the road and he does another. After 15 minutes I was done my side and he wasn't even nearly done his. He would stop and chat with people on the way and this would slow him down. I realize now that I am a very goal oriented person and he is very relationship oriented!"

She was very pleased as she related this insight: "Now I can understand more about why we do things differently!"

Success Orientations Publishing's Mission:

"Helping people and organizations achieve new insights"

To accomplish this goal, Paul J. Kurucz and a talented group of writers, speakers, graduate student interns, video producers, and bright thinkers are coming together to develop useful applied success orientation tools. Books, videos, assessment tools, training courses, workshops and more are being developed for a variety of life and work contexts. Paul and his partners also consult, lead workshops, train, and guest speak using the principles of success orientations to help faculty, employees, management, administrators, marketers, and others develop their own insights that can help them make positive changes in how they achieve their goals.

Planned Books and Videos:

  • How to Teach International Students - A practical teaching guide for universities and colleges (published August 2006)
  • Surviving and Thriving Your Teen Years in a world of different success orientations.
  • Get the Right Job! - A career guide for the frustrated job seeker.
  • Marketing across cultures - success orientations and marketing strategy.
  • Managing a diverse workforce.
  • Hiring the Right Success Orientations For the Right Job.
  • Homeschooling and Success Orientations - Helping your children when you are different from them.
  • Raising a Balanced Child (video).
  • Building Teams That Work - Helping teams of diverse employees become effective (video).
  • Teaching International Students - Trainer's video resources (video).

Join the Success Orientations Team!

Please contact us if you are interested in writing, producing videos, consulting, training or developing new ways of applying the success orientations model. We are always looking for motivated individuals who can make things happen as part of our team working on exciting success orientation projects!

 

     

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