This is step two of our experiment in using OBM and the principles of the book The 5 Scientific Laws of Life & Leadership to heighten Nurture & Nature’s profile and further develop my leadership skills. View the previous post in this series, “Checking In with the Stakeholders.” In looking at improving collaboration across all levels and empowering employees to express their ideas, I took baseline measures across the following actions: — How often do I seek out feedback about our clinical programs and my performance? Baseline: 0 occurrences per week — How often do I seek out ideas from ..read more

This is step one of our experiment in using OBM and the principles of the book The 5 Scientific Laws of Life & Leadership to heighten Nurture & Nature’s profile and further develop my leadership skills. View the first post in this series, “A New Mission.” Who in a company is effected by company culture? Everyone, of course, from clients/customers to staff. As our client relations are strong, we decided to focus primarily on our team. We sent out an anonymous survey asking all staff members to rate their current experiences with various aspects of Nurture & Nature’s culture and lead ..read more

With feedback, hopefully comes change, and I am on a mission to improve our company’s culture by utilizing the science of Applied Behavior Analysis, specifically OBM (Organizational Business Management), in which I received my certification in 2020 from FIT. Anyone who knows me knows I am passionate and can be fiery about things that I care about deeply. This fire both fuels and burns, and I admit giving and getting feedback is hard. When employees are careless with things that I care about — the impact our actions have on our clients, lawful compliance, honesty, safety, ethics, to name a few ..read more

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Charles Limb and Allen Braun             Charles Limb, a hearing specialist and surgeon at Johns Hopkins, has been working with Allen Braun to investigate music and the act of improvisation.  He did a series of experiments utilizing functional MRI technology to see what happens in the brain when we create. The Science of Creativity             As Limb states, “The science of innovation is at its infancy. . . truly we know very little about how we are able to be creative ..read more

Presenters at the 2016 Calaba Conference, Symposium: Behavioral Parent Training and In-home Consultation: Looking back, looking forward Denice Renteria-Gonzalez, Jose D. Rios, Kristine D. Dickson, Marisela Alvarado, Francine Holguin and Michele Wallace ..read more

 Music is universal.  Its origins are known in every culture, as there has yet to be discovered a culture that does not integrate music into their society (Worth, 1997).  Music containing lyrics is a powerful form of expression that dates back to ancient Sanskrit Dramas of India and the Greek Dramas of Classical Antiquity. Music offers us as a species an entire new vocabulary for self-expression. As Plato declared, “Music is moral law.  It gives the soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything” (Paquette ..read more

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