Junior Achievement of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Creativity and Innovation
This Creativity and Innovation micro-credential from Junior Achievement provides evidence that the participant has demonstrated competence in the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
Identify and apply appropriate ideation techniques in a range of situations
Evaluate ideas for originality, inventiveness, and value
Improve ...
Critical and Analytical Thinking
This Critical and Analytical Thinking micro-credential from Junior Achievement provides evidence that the participant has demonstrated competence in the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
Evaluate information and sources for bias and legitimacy
Seek and evaluate evidence to make decisions
Weigh ...
Cultural Agility
This Cultural Agility micro-credential from Junior Achievement provides evidence that the participant has demonstrated competence in the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
Identify organizational hierarchy and how to operate within it
Recognize stakeholders related to an organization
Evaluate established ...
Effective Collaboration
This Effective Collaboration micro-credential from Junior Achievement provides evidence that the participant has demonstrated competence in the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
Recommend appropriate methods of resolving conflict and negotiating in collaborative environments
Compare and contrast the needs and ...
Engaging Communication
This Engaging Collaboration micro-credential from Junior Achievement provides evidence that the participant has demonstrated competence in the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
Identify examples of clear and effective communication for different business audiences
Communicate to persuade by understanding and ...
Essential Work Skills Credential
The Essential Work Skills Credential from Junior Achievement demonstrates that the participant is competent in the following areas:
Creativity and Innovation
Critical and Analytical Thinking
Cultural Agility
Effective Collaboration
Engaging Communication
Self-Direction
JA Business Communications
JA Business Communications is a one-semester course that equips students to focus on communication skills necessary to succeed in business, including communicating up, down, and across organizations, talking about performance, and writing in a business setting.JA Career Decision Making
Earned upon completion of the first two phases of the JA Workforce Coaching program, “Onboarding” and “Explore” (four robust one-on-one coaching sessions). During this work, participants learn about Career Options, Time Management, Work Values, Goal-Setting, and Decision Making. At the end of this process, they decide whether to pursue immediate employment ...JA Career Success
JA Career Success provides students with a unique real-world introduction to the workplace. It focuses on soft skills, career development topics, and includes self-guided projects where students demonstrate effective communication, decision making, collaboration, and problem solving.JA Company Program
JA Company Program empowers high school students to fill a need or solve a problem in their community and teaches them practical skills required to conceptualize, capitalize, and manage their own business venture. Throughout the process of building their own company, students collaborate, make crucial business decisions, communicate with multiple stakeholders, ...
