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Make decisions in Riverside Café, the featured story, or any of nine more workplaces, and see what each choice protects, risks and could lead to next.
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Start with one workplace moment, build a focused skills plan, keep evidence of your choices and use optional guided sessions. Spark uses only progress saved in this browser and never marks anything complete for you.
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The Form He Can't Read
Kesterly College Front Desk · A man in his fifties needs to fill out an enrollment form. He is not going to tell you why he keeps putting it down.
Start this workday Alternative: The Last-Minute Shift at Riverside Café — try the same empathy skill in a different setting.
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Choose the part that helps now
There is no required order. Each part uses the same saved learner profile, so your progress and evidence stay together.
Make a skills plan
Choose a workplace and one of 21 skills for matching workdays, lessons, practice steps and support.
Jump to skills planningMy progress and evidence
Resume started work, reopen evidence cards and see one relevant next suggestion based on what you actually did.
Open My progressFour guided sessions
Use clarity, repair, boundaries and transferable-skills sessions with an educator or independently.
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Empathy at Kesterly College Front Desk
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Optional facilitated route
Workplace Practice: Four Guided Sessions
Use a session with an educator, or open its activities independently. No enrollment is required.
Session 1
Asking for clarity and getting started
Open sessionSession 2
Handling a mistake and repairing it
Open sessionSession 3
Navigating pressure, boundaries and competing responsibilities
Open sessionSession 4
Recognizing and explaining transferable skills
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