Mission Statement
Provide resources to enhance the professional skills for career and personal success to those who have limited access to training.
Program Description
Based on 40 years of work by Professor Bill Coplin, the Skills Win Coaching Program is a project led by students in a course at Syracuse University that has been offered over the past two years. The students in the course act as Skills Coaches and Project Managers. They work with classes in high school as well as nonprofit staff through one on one hands-on exercises. The 38 skills grouped in 10 Skill Sets are defined in Coplin’s book published in 2002 and revised in 2012 and are copied on the back of this statement. They range from basic communication and people skills to computer applications and data analysis skills. Skills Coaches develop, plan, deliver, and evaluate learning activities. In the spring 2023 semester, Skills Coaches are working with approximately 200 students in 10 classes at PSLA@Fowler and Nottingham High Schools in the City of Syracuse, the Police Cadet program, and staff members from local nonprofits.