How can students succeed if they're stressed out? In a back-to-basics style, Navigating your future puts stress management at the forefront, teaching students to harness their stress, create positive attitudes, and set personal goals. Behavioral changes must be simple, interactively reinforced, and show quick, positive results in order to take permanent hold. This working textbook and integrated CD help students to assess their current academic and workplace skills and develop specific action plans to insure both academic and personal success. This text gets to the "heart of the matter" through personal assessment and the development of goal-oriented action plans to improve students' skills. Features include: Highly interactive and fun CD; Behavioral change techniques; Logical learning organization.

Traveling toward personal success -- Stress management : the skill that affects all others -- Positive attitudes and goals : preparing the mind for success -- Managing your resources : time and money -- Active study strategies : learning "how to learn" -- Learning styles, memory and test taking : getting the grade -- Creative thinking and decision-making skills : making good choices -- A roadmap for professional success -- Communication in action : presenting yourself to others -- Group interaction and team building : working together works -- Job seeking and leadership development : your future begins now -- Enhancing your personal health : take care of yourself along the journey.