jrdreistadt
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 1 min
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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jrdreistadt
- Apr 15, 2017
- 1 min
Intersubjective Madness
The beautifully mysterious subjectivity of mental illness is too often lost in the noise of objective, authoritarian voices that dominate...
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