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Stories of Transition, Stories of humble leaders, Stories of people at work being great at what they do. We're lucky to be in the room to ask questions and guide the story. It's always a leadership lesson, a business lesson, and a life lesson. Good luck Kimberly Fields #sparksomethingbig #leadershiptips #employeeengagement  #branding

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Self care and love is very important.

You are a genuine leader when you can create a culture in which success is due to the team, and failure is on you

I am happy to share a late announcement that I have joined Techniplas this Summer as an HR Intern in Corporate Talent Acquisition! When searching for an internship opportunity, it was important to me to find something that felt like a good fit for my personality, skillset, and goals. Full transparency: I had a difficult recruiting season. Employers I was really excited about weren’t choosing me for interviews, and the employers who did choose me for interviews, I wasn’t feeling excited about. It’s rare for students to talk about these struggles because we never want to appear as being off our A-game. When University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Labor and Employment Relations Alum Kyra MacKenzie approached me to discuss the potential for an opportunity with Techniplas, she showed a genuine interest in my career goals and individual growth. We connected over our shared passion for building people up and strengthening communities. No other employer had bothered to connect with me on such a personal level. As students navigating the recruitment process, we get asked to fill out a lot of surveys and feedback forms about employers’ recruitment strategies. They want to know what works and what doesn’t. At the end of the day, it’s really simple: Make intentional, honest connections, and show that you are invested in helping young professionals grow in their field in a way that nurtures their unique skills and strengths. Kickstarting your career is daunting. Knowing that your leadership is invested in you and believes in you is invaluable. I couldn’t be happier with my decision.

The world needs wrestling. Wrestling is the human experience. Where grappling with opponents mirrors the struggles we face in our daily lives. Through wrestling, individuals learn invaluable lessons in perseverance, resilience, and the art of navigating adversity. Each match becomes a microcosm of the human condition, offering profound lessons in confronting fears, pushing boundaries, and extracting wisdom from triumphs and setbacks alike. Wrestling, therefore, stands as a timeless conduit for mining the depths of our past experiences and transforming them into catalysts for growth and self-discovery. My favorite quote: The "Man in the Arena" quote comes from a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, in 1910. Here's the quote: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." The world needs wrestling.

"Your support and help have been invaluable, dear Professor Diwan Rawat sir. I am truly grateful for your guidance and expertise." This paper discusses the use of zinc-aluminum mixed oxide nanocomposites (ZnAl-MO NCs) as an efficient catalyst for three-component one-pot KA2 coupling reactions to produce tetrasubstituted propargylamines. ZnAl-MO NCs selectively catalyze the KA2 coupling reactions between ketone, amine, and an alkyne, resulting in a wide range of functional substrates with higher conversion rates and yields. The sustainability of the catalyst was also studied by evaluating green chemistry metrics. The proposed methodology not only highlights the versatility of the novel catalyst but also demonstrates lower leaching levels for zinc and aluminum, respectively. #catalysis #nanomaterials #sustainability

Liberty and Passion for All With Independence Day right in front of us, I wanted to share this video from a visit to the Statue of Liberty to illustrate how passion enables us to perform ordinary tasks in extraordinary ways. You can inspire your team to deliver passionate performance by fulfilling six universal needs: - 3 Intellectual needs: Achievement, Autonomy, and Mastery - 3 Emotional needs: Purpose, Intimacy, and Appreciation. This Passionate Performance engagement model has been translated into nine languages and applied worldwide since 2004 because it transcends generations, cultures, and industries.

Liberty and Passion for All With Independence Day right in front of us, I wanted to share this video from a visit to the Statue of Liberty to illustrate how passion enables us to perform ordinary tasks in extraordinary ways. You can inspire your team to deliver passionate performance by fulfilling six universal needs: - 3 Intellectual needs: Achievement, Autonomy, and Mastery - 3 Emotional needs: Purpose, Intimacy, and Appreciation. This Passionate Performance engagement model has been translated into nine languages and applied worldwide since 2004 because it transcends generations, cultures, and industries.

The problem is, 99.99999999999999999999999951% of the time, between the keyboard and the chair