Debra Slover
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Cultivating Natural Leadership Expert
Debra Slover Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Growing natural leadership with purpose and aim in individuals and groups
- Career Focus
- Leadership Garden pollinator aka entrepreneur, author, speaker, and facilitator
- Affiliation
- Leader Garden Press our publishing division is a member of Small Publishers Association of North America and the Independent Book Publishers Association
She is the owner of Leadership Garden Enterprises, LLC and patron of the Leadership Garden Fund that provides grants to non-profit organizations to create projects that use leader-friendly gardening practices in the following categories:
- Inclusion Projects – Be nonjudgmental
- Safe and Healthy Community Projects – Do not enable
- Compassion Projects – Use empathy
- Kindness projects – Prune gossip
- Accountability projects – Eliminate blame
- Healing Projects – Eradicate Victimization
Her experience includes 20 years as Director of Oregon Student Safety On the Move (OSSOM), a statewide youth leadership program promoting safe and healthy communities operated out of Oregon State University, and seven years teaching in public schools.
During this time, she coordinated youth-led statewide conferences, leadership camps, and national conferences. She has been a presenter at numerous national, statewide, and local conferences and seminars, and has served as President of the National Association of Teen Institutes and Chair of the Oregon Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking.
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Debra Slover Audio & Video Programs
Debra Slover Books
U.N.I.Q.U.E.: Growing the Leader Within
https://www.leadershipgardenlegacy.com/leadership-garden/store
The Leadership Garden Guidebook
https://www.leadershipgardenlegacy.com/leadership-garden/store
U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden
https://www.leadershipgardenlegacy.com/leadership-garden/store
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Increasing your leadership skills
“Like beauty is in the mind of the beholder, thought is in the mind, love is in the heart, and truth is in the spirit of a leader. “ ~ Debra J. Slover Being mindful that you need assistance with your leadership skills is the first step toward eliminating any blocks that you may have developed over the years. The thing about leadership that is more important than managing people or projects, it is guiding and encouraging greatness in yourself and others.
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You Are The Change
Negativity can be a hard habit to break. Fighting circumstances is even harder. When it seems like everything is against your chances for success, it is difficult to find a positive solution. Your mind takes hold of these negative thoughts which then seem to manifest themselves into your reality. Everything is worthless. Everything is dark. Everything is wrong. I am ashamed. I am hopeless. I am wrong.
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How and why your actions affect your children more than your words
"Do as we say, and not as we do" ~ Giovanni Bocaccio This quote has often been heard by children all over the world, as "Do as I say, not as I do" as a parent picks up a cigarette, drinks too much, or eats too much food. It has been used for generations when children catch their elders doing things they themselves have been lectured not to do. I am sure that you realize this does not work. Children tend to model the behavior of the adults around them, rather than doing what the adults say to do. So what is the problem with this?
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Empowering, Engaging, & Educating Children to Be Leaders
Leadership education is often cookie cutter "team building" exercises that do not really address the needs of children in terms of true empowerment, engaging and educating children on the true meaning of leadership, much less truly empowering them to be actual leaders. The proof of this is the fact that many students who seem to have topnotch careers, as students are actually spending their lives cheating.
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How to make your life experiences count
Your past experiences inform your way of life, thoughts, and feelings about every new situation you encounter. If you do not do the work to learn and grow from your painful experiences, you will keep experiencing unnecessary pain until you learn. Learning the lessons you need to discover are what make all your life experiences count. The following are ways to make your life experiences truly count:
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Express your true leadership
Do you know how to truly express yourself? Do you even know who you are? Do you know how people perceive you? Is who you are harmonious with how people view you? If not maybe you're not expressing yourself clearly. For how you express your goals and dreams, the choices you make, and the actions you take are a direct reflection of your personal leadership. So, how can you go about making sure you are expressing your true self and personal leadership at work and at home?
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Five Steps Toward Discovering Your Purpose in Life
Finding your purpose in life can seem like a daunting task, especially if you are currently not satisfied with what is happening in your life today. Consider these five steps that help move you toward discovering your purpose in life:
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How to inspire a clear vision for your business
Let's get a couple of definitions out of the way first: 1. Vision -– the big picture dream about your business 2. Purpose -– why you exist 3. Mission –- the task you set out to achieve 4. Goal –- what you will do to achieve that task Creating a clear vision for your business takes some thought, big thought, because this is the one time where you can think larger than you normally would, and the opportunity to think in terms of what you hope to ultimately see if you accomplished all your related objectives.
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Getting Real About Reality TV
With the advent of all the reality T.V. shows, such as "Jersey Shore", "Sixteen and Pregnant", "Keeping up with the Kardashian's" and others, it can make a person wonder if that is truly reality and the state our society is in today. No one can deny the dangers of reality T.V. to its participants in the wake of news reports of more than eleven suicides by 2009 by reality TV contestants. But is it also harmful to the viewers?
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What you want in your life
In order to become the true leader of your life you must examine yourself closely to determine what do you really want.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Reality
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects people in all walks of life. They are people who have been a victim of a crime, abused, involved in a natural disaster, or a war. Anything that is very traumatic can induce PTSD. The person with PTSD feels like they are always on the edge. It's as if the fight or flight reflex all humans possess is in overdrive.
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Time Management Training Creates Thriving Environments
If you want to thrive at home and at work, implement time management training. The wasting of time is a leading cause of most stress. When everything is unorganized, and everyone is too busy running around as if on fire, a surviving attitude takes hold. In a survival mode, everyone starts feeling the stress, then you can’t think straight, and your emotional senses are heightened. Any little thing out of place can cause tempers to flare and a breakdown, thus wasting more time.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Debra Slover
Every person is a unique seed in the world’s garden.
Each seed grows a leader from which greatness can blossom.
Imagine the future of our planet if we nurture each leader to sprout greatness.
LEADERSHIP GARDEN
A weed takes little effort to survive in a garden,
yet the choice to grow a thriving garden requires
the synergy of the heart, mind, and spirit with purpose and aim.
PLANTING A LEADERSHIP GARDEN
Reality germinates from the seeds of early life experience.
If those seeds don’t give us power, we can choose to cultivate and replant
a new Leadership Garden.
THE U.N.I.Q.U.E. TOUR BEGINS
Like beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
thought is in the mind, love is in the heart, and truth is in the spirit of a leader.
UNDERSTANDING FIELD
We are the natural cultivators of our Leadership Garden
to balance, blend, and expand our behaviors to thrive.
NURTURING MEADOW
True leaders nurture their own and other’s Leadership Gardens
to sprout greatness.
INVENTIVE ROOST
Leaders blossom and thrive with a personal purpose and aim.
QUALITY YARD
Integrity brings out the quality and greatness in leaders.
UNSTOPPABLE PASTURE
Leaders who commit to a genuine purpose and aim
will thrive under any storm life has to offer.
EXPRESSION PEN
A thriving leader spirit sings so others can hear the song of greatness.
U.N.I.Q.U.E.
LEADERSHIP GARDEN
The miracle of life is to thrive on the journey
with purpose and aim; the endnote is our spirit lives on.
Contacting Debra Slover
Debra J. Slover
Leadership Garden Enterprises, LLC
PO Box 841
Albany, OR 97321
Phone: 541-928-2232
Fax: 541-926-3524
www.LeadershipGardenLegacy.com
blog: www.LeadershipGardenCoach.com
Leadership Garden Enterprises, LLC and divisions Leader Garden Press and Leadership Garden Services are the business entities that power the Leadership Garden Legacy.
How to get started
The Leadership Garden® Legacy is intended to be a self-sustaining, self-generating community/philanthropic/business partnership. The GOAL is to seed and nurture 11 millio Leadership Gardens by 11/11/11.
Our VISION is a thriving worldwide Leadership Garden. Our PURPOSE is to empower greatness to make the world a better place. Our MISSION is to engage the unique purpose and aim of the leader in everyone.
The Leadership Garden registry, grants, products, services, and blog are designed to inform, empower, and engage you to achieve your goals and dreams to live and leave the legacy you desire.
Other highlights
Our products and services are designed to empower leadership with a unique purpose and aim and support the creation of leader-friendly gardening practices projects in the following categories:
- Inclusion Projects – Be nonjudgmental
- Safe and Healthy Community Projects – Do not enable
- Compassion Projects – Use empathy
- Kindness projects – Prune gossip
- Accountability projects – Eliminate blame
- Healing Projects – Eradicate Victimization
Imagine a world where these practices and projects were the norm.