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jrdreistadt
Aug 6, 20201 min read
How to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
Q: How can I challenge myself to step outside of my comfort zone? As leaders, it is important for us to push ourselves and redefine our...
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jrdreistadt
Jul 16, 20201 min read
Helping Other People Understand Your Goals
Q: How can I help other people understand my goals? With so many competing interests and compelling things drawing our attention, it can...
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jrdreistadt
Jul 2, 20201 min read
Trusting Others When You Need Help
Q: How can I trust others to help me? I sometimes have trouble trusting others. I know that they are (generally) good people and mean...
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jrdreistadt
Jun 18, 20202 min read
10 Ways to Deal with Anger as a Leader
Q: As a leader, I know that I should avoid getting angry and losing control, but it sometimes happens. How can I avoid this? It sounds...
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jrdreistadt
May 21, 20202 min read
7 Ways to Work with Different Personalities
Q: I am a teacher and the head of our English department. I work with many different personalities. How can I be more innovative to...
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jrdreistadt
May 7, 20202 min read
8 Ways to Turn around Your Staff
Q: I own a school and have a staff of 17 people. It is hard to recruit staff because of our school’s location. The staff I have do not...
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jrdreistadt
Apr 16, 20202 min read
7 Strategies to Effectively Engage Youth in Activities
Q: I lead a group of young people between the ages of two to 26. Attendance is very poor for our weekly meetings and are a bit hard to...
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jrdreistadt
Apr 2, 20202 min read
Six Tips to Manage Volunteers
Q: How can I better manage my volunteers? As a person who has worked in the nonprofit sector for 20 years, I know how important...
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jrdreistadt
Mar 19, 20202 min read
How to be an Effective Public Speaker with an Accent
Q: How can I be an effective public speaker when I have an accent? Your accent is a part of who you are. It makes you unique and can...
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jrdreistadt
Mar 5, 20202 min read
Helping Students Develop Good Character
Q: How can I help my students develop good character? As adults, we have a great opportunity to influence the children around us. We do...
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jrdreistadt
Feb 20, 20202 min read
6 Ways to Establish Yourself as a Trusted and Respected Leader
Q: How can I establish myself as a trusted and respected leader? As leaders, we have the opportunity to have a positive influence on...
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jrdreistadt
Feb 6, 20202 min read
What I love most about being a teacher
Over the nearly 20 years that I have been a teacher, I have had the privilege of teaching and learning with thousands of interesting,...
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jrdreistadt
Jan 16, 20204 min read
How to Create Opportunities for Other Women as an Educator
Q: In my society, women are not given higher positions even when she has quality, talent, and education. I want to be one of the people...
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jrdreistadt
Jan 2, 20201 min read
Everything Old is New Again
Late last year, I changed my plan on this WordPress site. I knew this meant that some of my old posts would disappear. And they did. Over...
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jrdreistadt
Sep 22, 20172 min read
Life Lessons from Bucket Bathing
I recently had a small, then a big, then a huge leak in my second-floor bathroom drain pipe. This resulted in not just mold and warped...
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jrdreistadt
Sep 15, 20173 min read
Yoga is Free!
I went on my first yoga retreat in the 1990s, to a somewhat stoic place in the majestic Berkshire Mountains. At the time, I was a recent...
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jrdreistadt
Apr 19, 20171 min read
Loved and Accepted
I thought I had Discovered myself Within a place That resonated with my Vision and my Passion I went there to be loved and accepted Only...
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