{"id":1913,"date":"2012-11-13T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2016-03-13T21:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:21:28","slug":"skyward-ceo-visits-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2012\/11\/13\/skyward-ceo-visits-alma-mater\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyward CEO visits alma mater"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/skyward201211.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1914\" title=\"skyward201211\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/skyward201211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Cliff King &#8217;83 is a Stevens Point success story. Born and raised in Point, King attended K-12 in Stevens Point before graduating from UW-Stevens Point with a business degree in 1983. Two years earlier, King became the first full-time employee of Skyward, Inc., another Stevens Point success story. He shared his story with students from the UWSP School of Business &amp; Economics Tuesday, Nov. 13.<\/p>\n<p>King is now CEO of Skyward, a leading provider of administrative software solutions for K-12 schools. Skyward provides software for more than 1,500 districts across the globe. Skyward\u2019s School Management System\u2122 allows districts to manage student progress, annual budget, employee pay, and even food service from a single centralized database.<\/p>\n<p>King has learned a lot of lessons from his 30-plus years working in every department at Skyward, including customer service, sales, marketing, and product development:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Treat everyone like you would like to be treated.<\/li>\n<li>Be ready to make new decisions based on new information.<\/li>\n<li>Listen. It is a lost art that presents many opportunities to learn.<\/li>\n<li>Change is inevitable and ongoing, be a catalyst of it.<\/li>\n<li>Be passionate about what you do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, Skyward has 366 employees, including 107 UW-Stevens Point alumni. Maybe one will be the next Stevens Point success story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff King &#8217;83 is a Stevens Point success story. Born and raised in Point, King attended K-12 in Stevens Point before graduating from UW-Stevens Point with a business degree in 1983. Two years earlier, King became the first full-time employee of Skyward, Inc., another Stevens Point success story. He shared his story with students from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,450],"tags":[85,291,305,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6793,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/6793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}