Category: inner-leader
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The Great Outdoors: A Natural Way to Boost Leadership for both Kids & Adults!
Kids (and adults) enjoy exploring and learning about nature and agriculture at Kimmel, which is a great thing! Why? Getting out into nature helps kids and adults strengthen not only their knowledge about food and natural resources, it also improves leadership capacity. Enjoying the great outdoors is one way we can all grow our Inner…
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It’s All About Perspective!
This morning on the way to school, my little man noticed the salt on the sidewalk. The sparkly, white salt was in little clusters strewn all over the sidewalk. He saw the salt said, “Look Mom snow! Did the tooth fairy put it there?”I couldn’t help but smile to myself and think about how we…
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My Book is Officially Published!
My blog has been a bit quite lately because I have been focusing on getting my book done. I just hit “publish” last night, and is already available on Amazon! Go Wild with Confidence! is officially available!!This book is self-published through CreateSpace, which is an arm of Amazon. As a self-published author, I do need…
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Final Thoughts on Confidence (for now 🙂
There are many ways to develop your confidence. Ultimately, you have to decide what is right for you. Journaling, meditation, the use of personal mantras and affirmations, goal setting, visualization, art, nature, healthy eating, physical activity and hiring coaches can all be great tools to help you move forward. Whatever you decide, just make sure…
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Dr. Connie’s Top 10 Confidence Boosters
Strengthen your Inner Leader by investing time and resources in your self-confidence. There are a number of confidence building tools; however, a quick reference is always helpful. Based on my research and experience, I have developed Dr. Connie’s Top 10 Confidence Boosters: 1. Cherish Your Freedom Realize that you alone control your destiny. You have…
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Why Invest in Your Self-Confidence?
Innovation always begins with people. Self-confident individuals filled with passion, purpose and confidence are the most creative and innovative individuals. They have strong Inner Leaders and the confidence it takes to lead personal, organizational and community change and innovation. Growing individual confidence and the confidence of others are key factors associated with great leadership. Before…
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Self-Care and Farmers’ Markets?
Self-care is essential to strengthening your Inner Leader. Good nutrition and exercise also positively contribute to self-leadership and personal innovation. For a list of Farmers’ Markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) organizations in Nebraska visit: http://food.unl.edu/web/localfoods/fmcsa Eating nutritious, fresh food is a great way to invest in and take care of your creative spirit and…
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Go Wild with Wildflowers!!
Immersing yourself into nature is a great way to tap into your creative genius. Nebraska’s WildFlower Week is the perfect opportunity to tap into your Inner Leader while having fun and “picking” up some inspiration and innovation. Nebraska Wildflower Week is a celebration of wildflowers and native plants in the wild and in the landscape…
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The Indispensable Assistant Seminar
In addition to our kitchen remodel (more on this later), I am busy preparing a presentation for The Indispensable Assistant Seminar this Friday in Columbus, NE. The focus of the conference is on Creating a Positive Workplace, which is awesome! Other speakers will focus on motivation, technology, health in the workplace and greening the office.…
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Manuscript on Coaching for Personal Innovation Submitted!
Phew!! I just submitted a manuscript to the 2012 Distance Learning Administration Conference. With only 1 month to write this original article….well, let’s just say I am glad 2012 is a leap year! Here’s the Abstract: Coaching is emerging as a tool that can be used to achieve sustainable personal and organizational innovation, and distance…