Internet Safety

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Internet safety entails the guidelines and procedures implemented in public and private settings to protect the well-being of Internet users. Specific Internet safety measures include laws prohibiting illicit activity online and protecting children’s privacy; acceptable use policies that stipulate rules for children to access the Internet in schools; family guidelines and parental supervision; instruction in Internet literacy; and implementation of browser access controls and software to filter, block, and monitor children’s access to certain sites. As an educational tool, the Internet offers access to extensive resources and information; however, the speed and openness of this media necessitates awareness and intervention to promote safety and well-being.

Although many presume that a child who is linked to the Internet is safe under the protective refuge of his school or home, the potential risks online are comparable to the dangers noted in any expansive environment. The risks include exposure to hate, violence, misinformation, consumer exploitation, and sexual predators. Nonetheless, the Internet provides an extraordinary opportunity for enriching teaching and learning. Internet safety encompasses those initiatives that mediate the online experiences that are disadvantageous to a child’s physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional functioning.

What Is Consumerism?

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An important issue that we first address is how consumerism has changed the economy, and subsequently, influenced public health and health care. Consumerism often describes two opposing trends – both of which have shaped public health strategies and programs. One definition of consumerism is the relentless economic pursuit of consumption, based on liberal economic theory that increasing consumption is economically beneficial. It describes the effect of the market economy, advertising, and mass media on individuals, creating a ‘consumer culture’ and ‘mass consumption.’ Companies tap into consumers’ purchasing power and consumption desires for food, drugs, and health care through global marketing, branding and distribution, direct-to-consumer drug advertising, medical tourism, and an ever-increasing mass of information to the consumer, especially with the advent of the Internet. Public health campaigns in turn often use the same mass media, social marketing techniques used by corporations to reverse corporations’ influence over people. For example, consider consumer-unhealthy products or lifestyles such as the use of tobacco or fast food – public health campaigns counteract the consumerist culture by increasing the social desirability to quit smoking, eat healthily, get vaccinations, and wear automobile seatbelts through the use of public health messages. The second definition of consumerism is the movement for greater protection of the interests of consumers. Consumer advocates seek greater protection of consumers’ interests through legislation and monitoring of products and business practices by government, regulatory, or independent agencies within a market economy model. In reaction, anticonsumerism rejects economic materialism and market economy altogether for sustainable consumption and development, often embraced by supporters of environmental protection and simple or holistic living.

Things Bad Leaders Do

By George Veronis

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
- Kin Hubbard

A leader's job is not an easy one. He has to be the boss, the friend, the colleague, the confidante and the man who is the grease between the employees and the company. Good leaders can make a company not just successful but also a joy to work in, whereas bad leaders can turn the workplace into a simmering pot of discontent.

However, bad leaders often don't even realize they are being bad leaders. It's the mistakes they make in handling people that have stronger repercussions than they can imagine. Here are some of the things certain leaders do, or fail to do that make them so bad at their job:-

Cannot handle change: - Change is constant, and doubly so in business. If a leader cannot handle change himself, then it becomes extremely difficult for those under him to adapt. Guiding the team through a period of transition is something every leader should be able to do.

Blames it on the team: - Dragging out team members and putting them under the spotlight before the higher-ups is something most bad leaders do. It may save his skin in the short term, but it breeds resentment and disrespect and the leader earns a reputation of being unable to keep his people in line. Of course, mistakes by team members need to be addressed, but privately.

Takes credit for the work of others: - Most leaders who are in the habit of blaming the team for the mistakes also jump to pat themselves on the back in case of a job well done by a team member. This is just as bad, if not worse. Since the leader is most often the representative of the team before the top management, he has to represent his people fairly. This kind of behavior demotivates people and prevents them from giving their best.

Cannot take decisions: - Bad leaders cannot take decisions because they are afraid of owning up to the consequences of their actions. Where a good leader is dynamic and decisive, a bad leader will constantly defer the decision making process, hoping time will take care of the problem or will look for someone to blame.

Easily swayed by fawning and flattery: - A good leader trusts the performers. A bad leader trusts the talkers. Unfortunately, talk is cheap, and sucking up is how the inefficient employees try to get ahead. Bad leaders have a select group of favorites who are almost exclusively the worst workers, and will try to cover up the mistakes of this group, with disastrous results.

Cannot communicate: - Communicating with team members is an art in itself, and involves walking a fine line between leniency and firmness. Even the most efficient person will never be successful as a leader if he is rude or brisk with his people all the time. And the same goes for those who cannot tell someone off when it is necessary.

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Leadership Is a Process

By Gbitse Barrow

Do you have a boss, supervisor, manager or CEO who doesn't meet your expectations as a leader? Are you concerned that your new boss or manager doesn't have the right attitude, knowledge, skills and behaviour to lead, or are you worried that despite many years in a position of leadership, your boss continues to fall short of everyone's expectations? These are real life scenarios that play out each day in our workplaces, businesses and communities. Even on a larger scale in society, how satisfied are we of our civil and political leaders and their abilities to lead us effectively and towards success?

If you are dealing with a leader similar to the ones described above, or you suspect that you may be indeed that positional leader who is falling short of the expectation, one of the most important lessons you must learn about leadership is that it is a process, and not an event. Leaders grow each day, and leadership is in itself a journey. The mere fact that you have won an election, started a new business, married a wife,gotten a promotion, or arrived at a position of leadership doesn't make you a leader. Authentic leadership is about a life-long commitment to learning and transformational change, which is required for you to create the positive influence and success required of you as a leader.

Some of the challenges we have with ourselves as leaders, as well as with our positional leaders is because we haven't recognized and understood that Leadership is a process and a journey. Through this journey of leadership leaders need to grow and become more aware of themselves by reflecting, asking questions, and getting feedback from the people they lead. The new learnings from this process will enable them adopt different styles and approaches and engage their followers more effectively. A lot of leaders jettison this process, and believe that having arrived at their positions they would all of a sudden achieve a "god-status", and that all the powers and successes that "leaders" have will suddenly become theirs.

A great example of what I am describing can best be seen when a new leader is promoted from within the team. How can you be so myopic to believe that from the first day you will gain everyone's respect or buy-in; how can you fit into the shoes of the previous leader so quickly; how can you heal all the wounds of the past and move forward? Honestly, these things take time, which if you do not apply yourself to as a systematic process, may indeed take forever, or actually never happen. A lot of new leaders who were great team members and performers fail to recognize this and fail woefully in their first leadership assignments. I have seen people fall into this trap, and struggle to retrace their steps quickly enough and learn the competencies required to be leaders. Some of them escape, wobble and fumble along to higher positions of leadership, but carry with them forever, the scars of their leadership events, rather than the learnings and changes required of a leadership journey.

Look around today, and think about those examples of positional leaders who are not effective leaders, there is perhaps a lesson or two that can be learned from their first leadership events or positions. As you look at newly appointed or elected leaders who seem not to have what it takes - do endeavor to give them a chance and support them through their journeys. If they are committed to life-long learning and transformational learning like all great leaders should be, then their journey to leadership, although challenging will be blessed with success in the long-run.

As we look around us, we must also look at ourselves, and ask the pertinent questions - How have I dealt with my past and current leadership positions? Is leadership just an event, or am I in a committed systematic process of growing each day as a leader? Whatever your answers may be, just remember that you can re-trace your steps and create a real leadership journey as you continue to grow as leader. Focus on continuous learning, feedback and a willingness to change, and be committed, deliberate and systematic about it!

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Avoid the Advice: Trust Yourself to Make the Best Decisions

By Angela Gonzalez

Over the course of your life, you probably have received an enormous amount of advice and much of it unsolicited. Even worse is the paradoxical advice, "an unexamined life is not worth living" or "too much information is a dangerous thing." Life is full of these experiences; you get advice from the latest bestselling author, your mother, your friend, etc. With this advice come expectations, and often, demands on how you should live, work, think and feel. With all this input, how do you best decide what's right for your life?

Step One - Recognize that the opinions and advice of others-is merely information for making your own decisions. For some people, that fact is understood and they don't worry about what others think or feel-so they charge ahead. Then there are the rest of us, who do care and it can be difficult to ignore the well-meaning advice from those that we respect, fear or love. The essential thing is to remember is that while others love to give advice--it's not their life--it's yours. Accepting this requires clear thought; a mindset that cuts through the competing voices so that you can listen to your own.

Step Two - Know that you have within you everything you need to make the best decision for yourself. It starts with an integrated approach. Examine the options through your three centers of intelligence: Head, Heart and Gut, with each center furnishing you with unique perspectives. Using this approach enables you to access to every bit of knowledge, experience and talent that you possess.

Think of a decision you want to make, big or small, and ask yourself the following questions. Write down your initial thoughts; don't ponder too long on any one question, and note the different perspectives when you are finished:

* Head (Intellect/Rational) - What does the logical and analytical part of me think? Do I have enough facts, data, history, analysis, details or examples? What do I think after sifting through the information? How will this help the situation? How can I use these conclusions in conjunction with my Heart and Gut?
* Heart (Feelings/Emotions) - What emotions am I feeling, what does my heart say? Do I feel scared, exhilarated, worried, sad or happy? Why do I feel this way? How does knowing how I feel help me make a better decision? How can I use these conclusions in conjunction with my Head and Gut?
* Gut (Intuition/Wisdom) - What does my intuition or gut sense; what do my instincts say? Do I sense the situation, idea or the person is right, wrong, dangerous or unclear? Why might I be having this instinctual reaction? What does this information tell me about what I need or should do? How can I use these conclusions in conjunction with my Head and Heart?

Step Three - Gain clarity; create a space to inspect and reflect on your choices before you take action. This interrupts your brain from its predictable drive for using the same old patterns for quick and comfortable decision-making. Instead reflect on the varied but connected answers from your three center of intelligence. While the answers may be different for each center, combined they serve 100% of your needs for making good choices. This enables you to fully articulate what you are experiencing within you and around you, and to synthesize what you find. Consider Ken, one of my coaching clients:

Ken was having trouble accessing his Gut and Heart perspectives in decision-making. He learned that his pattern was to make decisions only with his Head because that's what was rewarded in his family and work life; using logical and rational thought became his favorite criteria for making decisions. This meant that he learned to ignore his intuition that something was wrong or there was a different way to accomplish something, and he learned to stuff his emotions so far down that he didn't know what he was feeling or how he affected others. Ken has since learned that using all three intelligences gave him access to his intuition so he can rely on what he senses (from his Gut) and he is able to extend empathy and compassion to himself and others (from his Heart), in addition to using his exceptional rational thought.

Making your own decisions is very empowering. Your three centers of intelligence provide access to the wisdom that you possess. Having this information enables you to articulate why you are going to do what you do-with your eyes wide open. If it doesn't work out, you have the experience of what to do the next time, and you can learn and grow into how you want to be. Having access to your three centers of intelligence deepens your self-knowledge and expands your decision-making comfort zone. It helps you uncover your essential self and to feel strong in the face of opposition, expectations and the demands of others when you need to make a decision that is a good one for you, AND that is the one that you can trust.

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How to Attain Effective Leadership Styles

By Chris D Cruz

Being an effective leader is paramount to affect goal oriented results, any leader will confide that leadership styles perform best when they originate and are affected from a tight bond with the people being led. Having good leadership styles connotes being able to be a visionary; has target goals to what you wish you and your people to achieve. For any leader to have such an effect then a strong mind is needed to initiate such positive thoughts towards the desired goal.

It is very important for a leader to spend most of his time visualizing on how to lead his people, as earlier mentioned the mind is very important in attaining leadership acts, the mental wellness of an individual influences their thoughts which in turn replicates on their action and lifestyle. Research has it that people tend to learn more or actually scrutinize a leader through their action; a well characterized leader is bond to have a good following than a leader who speaks empty words.

For any leader to flourish in his leadership acts then the power of law of attraction must be known to him. There are quite a number of things one can achieve through the power of the mind. You don't need external forms of therapy to affect the change you need as positive affirmation towards a goal can help you attain the result you desire. Many people have affected different acts of law of attraction to their benefits, however it is very important to understand that result does not happen overnight and one needs consistency for desired results to materialize.

It is very imperative to understand the functions of the mind should you be interested in mind exercises. The brain is a complex organ which is in charge of each and every human activity. The brain is divided into two parts; namely the right and the left hemisphere, each part of the brain is charged to perform different tasks which are beneficial to any activity in the body. These functions of the brain brings alive the intangible state of the brain which is called the mind. The mind exist in two states, the conscious and the subconscious mind, the conscious state of the mind is often referred to as the aware state of the mind while the subconscious state of the mind referred to as the concealed mind state. The functions of these states of the mind are mutual and none can perform without the other. The conscious states are charged with reasoning whereas the subconscious state of the mind is charged with growth and development.

Anyone interested in gaining good leadership styles should perform visualization acts which are beneficial in attaining subconscious mind learning. The result of targeted subconscious mind learning is success to the specific targeted goal. Positive affirmation play a great role in affecting visualization acts, one should always learn to think positively for this elongates relevant mind development acts. A good leader should also be able to teach his followers on how to attain success through law of attraction.

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Effective Mind Training Leadership Acts

By Chris D Cruz

There is a famous saying that quotes 'great leaders are never born but are made' skeptics with limited knowledge about the power of the mind can shrug off this saying; however its proven beyond reasonable doubts that some of the great leaders we normally refer to were unable to perform basic leadership qualities such as oratory. While such didn't deter them from achieving there goals something must have propelled them to such heights of success. Most of these success stories prove the power of the mind. Well, there is no limit to what a developed mind can do; there are a number of research that proves positive laws of attraction effects on training leadership acts.

It is very important to understand that people are exposed to effects of laws of attraction whether they affect them knowingly or unknowingly. The surroundings in which one finds himself in has major roles to play in developing that person's behavior. For instance; if one spends most of their time in settings which are negative to success that individual will never experience success at anytime in their lives.

Mind developments are essential in creating relevant thought setups which are beneficial in attaining targeted goal. For example; an individual can elongate leadership qualities by visualization acts. Mental visualization is imperative to attain goals of any nature; when an individual inclines their minds to affect mental pictures of what they desire to become what follows from this are relevant thought setup catapulted to that goal. Any successful leader confides in the power of the mind in affecting envisioned results. Quite a number of people have written topics and books about how one can affect success by training their minds to affect such success.

When training leadership acts, it is very important to understand that results do not show up overnight; one has to be keen and consistent in creating positive thoughts and also acting upon them. Action and positive affirmation go hand in hand; one can never attain great leadership styles if they fail to act upon what they believe. One effective way of affecting fast results is creating relevant familiar thoughts in the mind; most people tend to do such by reading informational success stories.

Once you create a familiar ground in the mind then believing and hoping for the best out of what you envisage is always possible. It is very important to understand for laws of attraction force to take effect then positive thoughts towards a result should be part and parcel of that individual's lifestyle. In order to create an aura that attracts success in what you believe then one may even be forced to talk to their inner being; this are called positive verbal affirmation. By doing this an individual confirms what they believe to their subconscious mind which in turns creates a learning subconscious process which is effective in delivering desired results.

For any one to be a great leader, training leadership acts through the power of the mind are a perfect way of achieving the unthinkable. Leaders who teach their followers how to use laws of attraction to affect change in their lives lead a group of great people.

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