Whether you are instructing a class, making a sales presentation, or facilitating a business meeting, excellent presentation skills are essential if you want to make a “good” first impression. Your Center of Learning, The Center for Rural Development’s workforce- and career-training program, will equip you with the basic tools to help improve your presentation skills [...]
Fueled by advertising specifically targeted to the spending habits of young consumers, many American teens seem to be on a non-stop buying spree. And it doesn’t take long for young people to get over their head in financial trouble after ringing up hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in credit card debt. Forward in the [...]
Time is running out to submit nominations for the region’s top business leaders and entrepreneurs in the 2011 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards (EIEA) program. June 1 is the deadline for accepting nominations for the 10th anniversary celebration of this year’s EIEA program, which honors those who have launched and are managing a successful business enterprise [...]
In her book, “Becoming the Red Sock in the Laundry Basket—Simple Strategies to Everyday Leadership,” author Laura Emberton Owens teaches how leadership is the product of perfecting the critical elements of credibility: image, attitude, teamwork, and communication. “Leaders are much like a red sock, rubbing off on others even when no one expects it,” Owens [...]
The Center for Rural Development has been recognized by Eastern Kentucky PRIDE (Personal Responsibility In a Desirable Environment) for having one of the largest volunteer groups to participate in this year’s third annual PRIDE Clean Sweep of U.S. 27. PRIDE vice president Tammie Wilson presented Lonnie Lawson, president and CEO of The Center, and members [...]
To view more photos from Saturday’s Closing Ceremony for The Wall That Heals, visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/centertech/sets/72157626736772216/ After a week of daily military observances at The Wall That Heals mobile Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and Museum, American Legion Post 38 presented the closing ceremony on Saturday with full military honors for the more than 58,000 service [...]
Promoting the importance of reading as one of the fundamental building blocks in a child’s education, Kentucky’s First Lady Jane Beshear visited The Center for Rural Development on May 16 to encourage nearly 1,000 enthusiastic fourth-grade students in Pulaski County to discover the joy of reading. Beshear, a strong advocate for literacy in Kentucky and [...]
To view more photos from Friday’s The Wall That Heals ceremony, visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/centertech/sets/72157626608872805/ After sitting quietly for nearly two hours, Vietnam Veteran Ronald Higgins slowly rose to his feet and saluted Kentucky “fallen heroes.” Higgins, who served in the U.S. Army’s 101th Airborne Infantry, was among a group of people who gathered in the front [...]
For more photos of Thursday’s flag-presentation ceremony at The Wall That Heals, visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/centertech/sets/72157626706387464/ This week’s noontime daily military observances at The Wall That Heals mobile Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and Museum continued Thursday at The Center for Rural Development with a brief flag-presentation ceremony by cadets with the Southwestern High School Junior Reserve [...]
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