Your Staff are Committed to Helping Students Thrive
But they aren’t thriving. They’re bored, stressed, procrastinating, underperforming, grappling with ADHD, and the list goes on. They’re desperate for help and yet they don’t follow your advice.
Whether you're supporting undergrad or grad students, there’s a better way.
The Solution
Your Staff Need:
- 🧩 A clear framework that allows them to help students identify the factors holding them back.
- 🛠️ Practical techniques they can guide students through to make the necessary changes.
- 🔥 Strategies for helping students to get excited about their schoolwork – students can’t thrive without this.
Our Framework:
Our framework will give your staff a clear foundation for assessing students' needs and providing guidance. It identifies the 4 skillsets that allow students to feel energized and unstoppable in their schoolwork.
Students need techniques for managing their…
- Mental pulls (i.e., excitement)
- Mind (e.g., stress, concentration)
- Tasks (what to do)
- Time (when to do it)
Imagine students performing better and being happier in school because they’ve learned these skillsets and found ways to get excited about even their boring schoolwork.
Our staff workshops give you the knowledge and resources to easily provide this guidance.
Workshops for Staff
We offer workshops to any staff in a student support role (serving undergrad or grad students), including counselors, tutors, coaches, professors, etc. We also offer workshops for students in peer-to-peer support roles.
All of our workshops are rooted in our 4-factor productivity framework. Staff learn how to use this framework to help students through a wide range of struggles.
Workshop Topics Can Include:
- ✅ Productivity: The 4 skillsets (managing tasks, time, mind, & mental pulls)
- 🌪️ Stress: Harmful & helpful types
- 🧠 ADHD: Thriving in school
- 🔥 Engagement: ↑ excitement, ↑ attendance
- 📚 Procrastination: Sources & solutions
- 💤 Boredom: Turn it into excitement
- 🛡️ Mental Resilience: Core mental habits
- 🤖 AI in Academia: How, when, & why
We can also customize the workshop topics based on your needs.
Our approach to all topics is rooted in students’ well-being (psychological and physical). We believe well-being facilitates productivity and that productivity techniques should support well-being. Given the rising levels of stress among college students, this focus on well-being is essential.
Get Expert Training
Academia puts a high value on the content expertise that comes from rigorous academic training. Our students are taught by experts in the field. Shouldn’t your staff also be taught by an expert?
Dr. Matt Jarman is an organizational psychologist, former psychology professor, and has been teaching productivity for almost 20 years. He has expertise in productivity, engagement, and ADHD. Matt was mentored by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (considered a father of Positive Psychology and author of Flow).
🧭 Your Path to Better Student Support
- Schedule a FREE 30-minute call to determine your staff’s needs
- We design and deliver a custom workshop or workshop series
- Your staff use their new framework and tools to help students.
In the call, I'll get a better sense for your needs and if it seems like a good fit, we can begin brainstorming what format and topics would be of most value to your staff.
Other Partnership Options
Matt is also available to partner with schools to create or improve their own in-house academic support programs.
These services could include:
- 🔍 Needs assessment
- 🧭 Guidance in content development (e.g., time management, stress management, thriving with ADHD)
- 🛠️ Staff training
- 📈 Design of a program evaluation process (e.g., processes for collecting data, analyzing, and reporting program outcomes)
- 🔗 Integration with existing student-support services
- 📢 Development of a student outreach plan to make more students aware of these services
- 🎯 Plus anything else needed to make the program a success
Sample Topic: ADHD
We approach productivity in general – and ADHD specifically – differently than others.
If you work with students, ADHD probably comes up a lot. The typical behavioral treatment for ADHD focuses on basic productivity ("executive function") skills. These are necessary but not sufficient for helping students with ADHD.
When the ADHD brain is distracted, it's looking for activities that generate a strong mental pull – sources of challenge and excitement that it's eager to dive into.
If students with ADHD are able to harness their brain's search for engagement so that it points towards their schoolwork, suddenly their active mind will be a huge asset to their studies.
Our workshops teach staff techniques for helping students to get excited about otherwise boring schoolwork. These techniques are complementary to any other counseling services the student may be receiving.
🎙️ Want to hear more about our approach to helping students with ADHD? Listen to this short recording: "Students with ADHD speak a different language" (9 min)