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Contents Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Kuanita E. Murphy, PhD Rural Leader Magazine, LLC is a digital publication that highlights every day people doing extraordinary things nationally and abroad. RuralLeaderMagazine.com RuralLeaderMag.com GetRuralLeaderMag.com Contributing Writers John Doidge Leader Knowledge Expert Samuel Johnson Leadership Educator Tammy A. S. Khol President Resource Associates Corporation Dr. Sylvia LaFair Author, Leadership Expert, & Executive Coach Simon Oates Leadership Expert John Potter, PhD International Business Psychologist Ed Sykes Author, Leadership Guru, Speaker 5 Leadership-Four Sure Fire Ways to Improve Your Influence 6 Six Ways to Make Better Decisions 8 Leader As A Mentor and Director 10 Routine Health Screenings: We Can Do Better 12 Seven Secrets to Creating an Engaging, Entertaining, and Persuasive Speech 13 Three Core Leadership Strategies 16 Inspire Confidence to Become a Leader 17 Preventing Brain Drain: Important Aspects of Summer Learning Programs 18 Ten Techniques for Motivating Others through Chaos 20 Raising Backyard Chicken: Egging on the Farm-to-Table Movement at Home 22  Nationwide Need for Volunteer Firefighters Grows: Are you up to the challenge 14 Communicating with a System: Appreciating, and Respecting Individual Differences Rural Leader Magazine, LLC 400 West Peachtree Street Suite #4-529 Atlanta, Georgia 30308 [email protected] 1-866-293-1162 Fax 866-477-8873 Samuel Williams, III, M.D. Primary Care Physician and Geriatrician       Tell us what you think about our publications, if you have a great idea for a story, or to just share. We may print your comments in Rural Leader Magazine. By sending us your comments, you’re giving permission to call you for an interview. Please be sure to include your name, address, email address, and phone number so we can reach you. Write to us at [email protected]— 2 RuralLeaderMag.com |MAY 2016 Reproduction in any manner, in whole or in part, in English, or other languages, is prohibited without written consent. Send editorial ideas to Kuanita E. Murphy, PhD, Editor-in-Chief [email protected] Join Today! Visit GSAACC.org