Näleg is Power!
Unlimited access to knowledge offers unlimited potential.
Näleg Academic enables engagement between those with questions (students) and those with experience (alumni), helping students begin their journey from indecision to informed passion.
Unlimited access to knowledge offers unlimited potential.
Näleg Academic enables engagement between those with questions (students) and those with experience (alumni), helping students begin their journey from indecision to informed passion.
Why Näleg Academic?
For college students, seeking to understand the “real world” and make important career decisions can be an intimidating task.
- Of graduates, less than 40% make it in four years; 60% graduate in 6 years, creating significant economic pressure on the student.
- 80% of students change majors at least once. Average is three times in a college career. Uncertainty drives student cost and stress.
- University counselors are often limited by capacity and depth and breadth of insight. They simply don't have the experience.
- Advisory networks frequently consist only of family, friends and acquaintances. Access is the issue!
- Universities are under pressure to improve graduation rates and placement outcomes. Everyone's feeling the squeeze.
What is Näleg Academic?
It’s a Näleg (knowledge) Exchange where “requesters” (students) find “providers” (alumni) willing to transfer their knowledge and insights. And it all happens in a virtual, privacy protected environment, on phones, laptops or tablets. No sketchy meetings with strangers, travel to unknown areas or worries about harassing follow-up calls. Just a one-to-one, heart-to-heart, conversation about careers, experiences and passions.
Näleg allows students to engage with alumni professionals to discuss career or function specifics, personal fit, career path, or any relevant topic the alumni and student agree upon, with all the benefits of being face-to-face, but without all the stress and concerns.
How does it work?
What's in it for me?
Students gain critical insights, career decision support and confidence from sincere, experienced alumni professionals.
Alumni professionals take pride in “giving back” and sharing their knowledge, helping to guide and support tomorrow's workforce.
The university gains support toward enhanced performance metrics, a deeper relationship with alumni and greater university appeal to future students.
Alumni professionals take pride in “giving back” and sharing their knowledge, helping to guide and support tomorrow's workforce.
The university gains support toward enhanced performance metrics, a deeper relationship with alumni and greater university appeal to future students.
College can be one of the best, and most intimidating times of your life!
Accounting or Data Analytics?
College is about making lifelong friendships, watching or playing sports, parties and oh, the reason you're there... LEARNING! College offers tremendous potential to build knowledge and get involved in activities related to your passions. But what if you're not sure what you want to study? What if you think you're passionate about something, like the environment, finance, science or sports, but you don't truly know what's involved in preparing for or being successful in those areas? And what if you don't know any scientists or other career professionals to ask? How do you get a real world perspective on those professions so you can confirm your passion and chart a course to success and fulfillment?
With Näleg, you gain valuable insights from alumni that will help you determine your own career path. Let's say you enjoy working with numbers. "Someone" said you should be an accountant. So you schedule your courses and off you go. But it's tough, and you don't even know what it's like to be an accountant! What's the difference between financial and management accounting? What's forensic accounting? Where's the big money? Then you wonder if there's something else you can do with a passion for numbers. So many questions and a lot of opinions, but little access to real world experience. Many alumni had those same questions, maybe even started out in one field and ended up in a completely different career because they didn't know what they were getting into. College counselors are well intentioned, but most haven't done the work in which you're interested. Don't guess! Gather insights and perspective from alumni with real world experiences. Näleg gives you the power to make good decisions about your future.
Insights provide clarity of direction!
If you could spend 15, 30 or 60 minutes with someone who's doing exactly what you want to do, would you take the time? Or if someone could offer ideas on ways you hadn't thought of to exercise your passions, would it be worth a listen? Millions of alumni across the country have been in your shoes. They've made good and bad decisions about their career, both during and after college. They've traveled the road to a career, sometimes in the express lane and sometimes hitting every pothole along the way. Overall, they've probably learned a great deal about things in which you're interested; from how to get the most out of your time in college to what it's like to be in a specific profession every day. Through Näleg, caring and sincere alumni are willing to support you by sharing their insights and experience so that you can make critical decisions about your path forward.
On a campus you walked perhaps many years ago, there's a student trying to sort out life defining choices about their passions, talents and future. Maybe you were lucky and knew all along that you had everything needed to be a successful architect, scientist or engineer, and you were certain it was the career for you. The facts are that most students don't. They change majors three times on average and 60% take six years to graduate with a bachelor's degree. Many are confused, stressed and largely uninformed about how to match their passions with a career. They may know what they enjoy, but they don't truly understand what's out there or how to get there, to help them realize their dream. That's where your wisdom, experience and perspective can make a huge difference.
Knowledge is the ultimate currency, yet we lose nothing by sharing it.
It's often said that many of our best traits stem from compassion; caring about the welfare of another. Compassion drives involvement, motivation, generosity and unselfishness. We know that we're hardwired to be compassionate, social beings and that our brain energy soars when we help others. It feels good and scientists know why!
Naleg enables alumni to demonstrate compassion for students by helping them sort out their future through sharing of career insights and experiences. The knowledge we hold and decisions we made, may be material or insignificant to us. But it's all invaluable and previously inaccessible information to a student struggling to identify the ideal career to align with their passions.
Naleg enables alumni to demonstrate compassion for students by helping them sort out their future through sharing of career insights and experiences. The knowledge we hold and decisions we made, may be material or insignificant to us. But it's all invaluable and previously inaccessible information to a student struggling to identify the ideal career to align with their passions.
Näleg enables knowledge sharing and provides a new and exciting way for you to give back.
Näleg offers a unique opportunity to provide guidance in a virtual one-on-one session where you can listen to students and provide a personalized perspective. The student will reach out to you through the system and you schedule whatever time you want to invest. The student may have very specific questions or may simply ask you to describe what it's like being in your job or profession; how did you get where you are or what other careers you considered based on your talents and passions. Whatever you choose to discuss, it will help the student make important decisions about their path forward.
"We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill
"Knowledge Counts is opening opportunities for my fluid interaction within the Clark Atlanta University Alumni community"
The CAU Paws to Claws program is a unique program, bringing together students (paws) and alumni (claws). It gives students the opportunity to hone their networking skills as they mingle and introduce themselves to alumni. Alumni are able to share from their rich experiences things that will benefit students as they navigate critical career choices.
Näleg Academic will enhance this program by providing students with virtual face-to-face engagement with CAU alumni throughout the nation and around he world.
Ms. Jasho's leadership with Paws to Claws makes her indispensable in helping Näleg Academic refine it's approach to student and alumni engagement. Clark Atlanta University is a showcase, to other HBCUs and universities, for how existing alumni engagement programs can be enhanced with Näleg Academic.
Näleg Academic will enhance this program by providing students with virtual face-to-face engagement with CAU alumni throughout the nation and around he world.
Ms. Jasho's leadership with Paws to Claws makes her indispensable in helping Näleg Academic refine it's approach to student and alumni engagement. Clark Atlanta University is a showcase, to other HBCUs and universities, for how existing alumni engagement programs can be enhanced with Näleg Academic.
Our core beliefs
- Knowledge and trust are top-level currencies in a new world economy, driven by fundamental human behavior and expansive social network engagement.
- Facilitated collaboration is the next evolution of relationship-based networks.
- Enabling the transfer of knowledge has tremendous opportunity and provides great value to individuals, teams, organizations and society.
The collaborative revolution has begun!
New enterprises are putting latent resources to work, sharing cars and homes, space and time. Rachel Botsman talks about collaborative consumption as “the reinvention of traditional market behaviors – renting, lending, swapping, sharing, bartering, gifting – through technology”. We’re becoming a sharing economy, where a variety of resources are creating new businesses and currencies.
Knowledge is the ultimate currency, deserving of a prominent space within this revolution. Knowledge can also be efficiently shared and has immense value to those with specific needs or interests.
In many areas today, you’re no longer recognized simply by the information or knowledge you hold. What matters more is how you share that knowledge and collaborate to provide guidance, identify solutions, drive innovation and achieve goals. Näleg provides that capability.
Knowledge is the ultimate currency, deserving of a prominent space within this revolution. Knowledge can also be efficiently shared and has immense value to those with specific needs or interests.
In many areas today, you’re no longer recognized simply by the information or knowledge you hold. What matters more is how you share that knowledge and collaborate to provide guidance, identify solutions, drive innovation and achieve goals. Näleg provides that capability.
Why knowledge sharing?
Humans are social beings. Our brains are wired to engage with others. Social psychologists and scientists have uncovered the neuroscience of human connections. As Matthew Lieberman states, “We may not like the fact that we are wired such that our well-being depends on our connections with others, but the facts are the facts.”
From the beginning of humankind, knowledge has been shared by person-to-person exchange of insights; not by simply transferring static information etched into a rock, but by verbally providing the full context and texture needed to fully communicate the information necessary to thrive or stay alive.
Finally, brain-scanning technology reveals that we enjoy helping others. The brain is also wired for generosity. This indicates that collaborating and sharing knowledge is not only natural, but is a powerful social and organizational enabler.
From the beginning of humankind, knowledge has been shared by person-to-person exchange of insights; not by simply transferring static information etched into a rock, but by verbally providing the full context and texture needed to fully communicate the information necessary to thrive or stay alive.
Finally, brain-scanning technology reveals that we enjoy helping others. The brain is also wired for generosity. This indicates that collaborating and sharing knowledge is not only natural, but is a powerful social and organizational enabler.
Why Näleg Was Created?
Näleg at its core is designed to do one simple thing – connect someone with a question to someone with an informed answer. In the process of face-to-face engagement there is the opportunity to truly share at a deep level. It is this sharing that makes engagement so powerful. We are often limited by what our closest advisers know. But now, with Näleg, students have the opportunity to access many more advisers, people difficult to access without this platform.
What does it cost?
Näleg Academic is free to students and alumni. The service is underwritten by investors and sponsors who believe that this is the best resource to help the next generation of professionals.
Are my sessions private?
Face-to-face engagement sessions are completely private. We do not access or share discussions between parties on the platform. All social engagement platforms are based on trust. Our policy is to keep session conversations private so that people are free to share without worrying about how that information might be shared. This is a core principal of our platform.
How is this different from LinkedIn?
LinkedIn allows professionals to build and manage a network of connections. Näleg enables students to find, connect and engage with professionals for the specific purpose of gaining insights and knowledge, so that students can determine or confirm their career path and understand all the opportunities available to fulfill their passions in the professional world.
Is this like Skype or FaceTime?
We offer the power of face-to-face engagement coupled with the power of locating just the right person to give you insight. It is the combined ability to find, match and engage that makes our platform unique.
More questions? Contact Kerry Forte at: KerryF@nalegispower.com