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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How You Lead Your Life Is a Choice
Do you realize that you have all the power you need, within yourself, to lead your life in the way that you choose?
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Leadership is a Way of Life
Most people see leadership as something people do in front of others, but true leadership starts within each of us. It starts with knowing your true purpose and aim and then acting on that knowledge in a way that remains true to your core values. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to observe what is going on right now in our country and to realize that many of our leaders (elected or otherwise) have lost their way. These people are not necessarily bad people, but at some point they forgot their true self and got lost in their ego and survival.
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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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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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Trust is an Essential Factor in True Leadership
A basic element in leadership is trust. To trust means that you have confidence and faith in whomever or whatever you are trusting. Trust is in fact, essential for almost every facet of our lives. When people talk about trust, they talk mainly in terms of gaining, earning, or reclaiming trust as an exte al phenomenon. And no doubt, trust is the easiest thing to lose and one of the hardest things to reclaim in human relationships. How do you gain trust?
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Communicating Your True Self
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. - Abraham Lincoln Communication is more than an exchange of words, symbols, or body language. It is an exchange of emotional energy.
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Patience leads to successful leadership
“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard So many people equate successful leadership as the act of achieving results. Having patience can help you achieve results because it is the ability to tolerate frustration that can come about through having to wait or delay what you do.
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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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The Future of Children -- Empowering Children's Leadership
A lot of children do not believe they have a future. All they see around them is chaos and less than desirable people being rewarded with nice cars, lots of money in a lifestyle that they don't comprehend, while each day the child wonders where their next meal will come from or when mom will come home to care for them and their siblings. In fact, some of the conditions in which children are trying to learn and grow are just unthinkable to a rational human being.
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Empower Children's Leadership
Many children grow up feeling pretty powerless. They think that they have no control over their own lives nor an ability to make a difference for someone else. It is important to the future of the planet that we alter that, and provide children a sense of their own power in a gently guided manner.
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Empowered Leadership Is Personal Resilience
Two words that describe empowered leadership are resilient and unstoppable. People who are resilient pick themselves up after a setback and get back into action, even when they don’t feel like it. When you are a resilient and unstoppable leader in your life you know: 1. When things don't go the way you had hoped, and it doesn’t have anything to do with you, you know how to keep moving forward.
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Building your decision making skills
The process of making decisions is a skill that can be developed and learned like any other skill. By practicing the critical thinking that is necessary to make complex decisions, you will become better at making all decisions. By learning how to make good decisions, you will avoid mistakes and get rid of blocks to reaching your true purpose and aim. To make good decisions consider the following:
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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.