Kim Nugent

"Promotion Protocol: Advancing Your Career in Corrections." This book is designed for leaders and employees seeking to enhance their careers within the corrections field. The overall goal is to improve the culture within the facility, department, or organization. The key points are: Recruitment, Retention, and Engagement Strategies: The book's first half offers practical tools and insights for leaders who want to improve their recruitment, retention, and engagement strategies. It addresses the challenges of attracting and retaining talent in the corrections industry. Generational Distinctions: The book explores generational differences and how they impact communication, technology and leadership. Understanding these distinctions helps leaders connect more effectively with their teams and transform their leadership skills. Effective Communication: The book emphasizes the importance of practical communication skills for leaders. It provides guidance on building trust and connections and fostering positive relationships. Structured Mentorship Program: The book's second half introduces a six-month structured mentorship program. Leaders can use this program with their staff in small groups, meeting weekly. The program includes weekly articles, mentee preparation questions, and mentor weekly questions. This approach has been proven to enhance engagement and job satisfaction among correctional professionals.

Do you ever feel like you don't know what to do after graduation? Do you feel pressure based on what your friends are doing? Are you just going along with no real plan? Or do you wish you could have a mentor to help you navigate what is right for you? Do you want to find your purpose, value, passion, and pathway to determine your destiny upon graduation? If you answered "YES" to any or all of these questions, then this book is for you Paving Your Path book is a practical and time-saving guide. It helps high school students develop a plan before graduation so they can fulfill their destiny. For this book to be most effective, the high school student (mentee) should select a mentor and develop a relationship. Together, they will use the book over 30 weeks to determine the right pathway upon graduation and produce a set of deliverables. Paving Your Path offers a strategic process that capitalizes on the experience of the mentor. This process includes the uniqueness of a mentee to achieve critical results based on collaboratively agreed-upon objectives on their 30-week journey. This book is a companion workbook to "Paving Your Path What's Next For High School Graduates" book that assists high school seniors in identifying, plan- ning, and getting ready for life and career success. Own your power so you can: - Learn about your choices - Innovate your education - Engage with your mentor - Inspire your future

52 Weeks to Exceptional Leadership is a practical and inspirational guide for leaders and managers. It is a business book for those who have the responsibility for developing talent in their departments and organizations. If you are that forward-thinking leader or a manager, this book is for you As you integrate your company's resources, impart your experience, inspire with your philosophy, with this book by your side, you can confidently add enthusiasm and results to your performance. This book will walk you step-by-step each week for the first year to build upon the talent and strengths of the individuals you manage or lead. This guide adds real structure to your management strategies, saves you time, money and gives you a weekly topic for your coaching calls or meetings. Inside you will find a weekly journal page to record your actions, reflections, and areas for improvement. Inside the book, Dr. Kim Nugent gives you the opportunity to read and address one practical strategy per week for one year. Use this book for self-improvement or as a guide in developing new leaders, managers in any organization. Kim advises that after you implement each strategy, make notes in the provided journal space about what worked and what could be improved. She attests that this weekly practice will become a habit. Inside this book, you will find fifty-two strategies to build a strong foundation in the area of leadership development. This practical guide assists you in enhancing the exceptional skills and talents you bring to the position or as part of your mentoring new leadership talent. You can indeed read topics in random order, based on your immediate priorities and concerns. Try not to read the whole book and put it away. If your preferred learning style is to read the entire book for the framework, context, and content, that is fine. But make sure to go back and re-read one-strategy-a-week and complete each journal page to further reflect on your implementation of the strategy with your team. That is where you will find the treasure and the real value of this book.

52 Weeks to Exceptional Leadership is a practical and inspirational guide for leaders and managers who have the responsibility for developing talent in their departments and organizations. If you are that forward-thinking leader or a manager, this book is for you. While you integrate your company's resources, impart your experience, inspire with your philosophy, with this book by your side, you can confidently add enthusiasm and results to your performance. This book will walk you step-by-step each week for the first year to build upon the talent and strengths of the individuals you manage or lead. This guide adds real structure to your management strategies, saves you time, money and gives you a weekly topic for your coaching calls or meetings. Inside you will find a weekly journal page to record your actions, reflections, and areas for improvement.

Did I Say Never? Dr. Kim Nugent is the best-selling author of Did I Say Never? Kim shares her personal 32-year spiritual journey, a true story, filled with sorrows and joys, challenges and tears that unfolded during her marriage and life as a stepparent. The intention of the book is to provide ideas, questions, resources, and heartfelt encouragement for parent's to help their special needs child or adult so they achieve their full potential and improve the overall quality of their life. Kim never thought she would marry again and for sure not to a man who had children. Little did she know that her life would change, in unimaginable and dramatic ways, and this is where the story begins Did I Say Never? is an emotional journey of love, frustration, and overwhelm. Kim step-by-step describes the details of each step she took on the path and talks about the Angels that appeared just at the right time to guide and uplift her. While Kim does not have all the answers for you and your family, she knows the struggles, pains, joys and victories. Kim offers remarkable disability resources and questions for consideration for you, your family, teachers, and caregivers. Have you ever felt completely lost, confused or extremely overwhelmed about what to do next with your disabled child or adult? Have you ever felt clueless as to what questions to ask next or what resources might be available to you? Then grab a copy and don't let anyone stop you from "designing your life without limits" Did I Say Never? is a must read. My name is Kim Nugent and I have a passion for helping people achieve their goals. After having spent my adult career in both the hospitality industry and higher education, I combined my education and experience, to operate my business, become an author, and speak nationally and internationally. I did not start out to ever wanting to write a book. In fact, I was never going to write a book until one day my church, Unity Church of Christianity, offered a writing workshop. I decided to sit in for 2.5 hours convinced I would simply hang out and see what it was all about. With Tom Bird's encouragement and system, my story and book are a reality today. The reason for this book's existence is the absolute need for parents and caregivers who do not have the resources, feel overwhelmed, confused and frustrated as I heartily wished this book had existed for me when I was challenged or feeling lost. In Did I Say Never, I share my honest and real feelings about how much I did not want to ever be a "step parent". What I found over the course of 32 years, was that being a step parent is actually an asset and a privilege. The other reason I wrote the book was to share my discoveries and a-ha moments to encourage you. My first meeting as a step-parent of a special needs child with school administrators still gives me goosebumps, a memory full of helplessness and defeat. I distinctly remember that meeting facing 12 school administrators. I said to myself: I am married, in a supportive family, well-educated, and English is my first language. So, what could go wrong? It is a simple meeting. I cannot imagine what it would be like if English was not my first language. The school administrators were speaking English but it was Greek to me. I felt the language they used excluded me instead of included me. So, at that time I simply trusted what they said was the right thing. Years later I found this not to be true. While educators are well-intentioned professionals, they do not know your child as well as you do. They do not know your child, nor should they be expected to. You know your child the most. So, let's partner together on this journey to designing lives without limits. Kim is a native Texan and loves everything about Texas.