Getting the Best from Yourself and Others

Written By Cynthia Skyers-Gordon

By Julie Davis-Colan

🔹 Subtitle:

Practical strategies to unlock potential, motivation, and team growth.

🔹 Quick Facts:

  • Format: Hardcover / 160 pages

  • Genre: Leadership / Personal Growth

  • Audience: Supervisors, team leaders, coordinators, and educators

🔹 What It’s About:

This book offers simple, effective tools to enhance self-awareness, improve relationships, and foster motivation. Through short chapters and engaging visuals, it empowers you to become a more conscious, inspiring leader.

🔹 Why We Recommend It:

Ideal for coordinators and managers looking to build a more empowering work culture. It aligns beautifully with the SILWELL-C model of leadership being both personal and collective.

🔹 Excerpt:

"Success is not about controlling people—it’s about connecting with them."

🔹 Get the Book:

👉 [Get the Book →](Amazon link here) (open in new tab

🔹 Pair It With:

  • SILWELL-C’s “Wellness Leadership Check-in Questions”

  • A team huddle using prompts from the book

  • A personal growth action plan template

 

Cynthia Skyers-Gordon

Dr. Cynthia Skyers-Gordon, Ed.D. is the founder of SILWELL-C (Staff-Inspired Leadership for Wellness and Calm), a wellness initiative created to empower educators, leaders, and teams to thrive from within. With more than 33 years of experience in early childhood education, from assistant teacher to director to Education Coordinator, Dr. Skyers-Gordon understands the challenges and opportunities staff face each day.

SILWELL-C was born from her belief that true wellness in schools starts with the staff themselves. By providing calm leadership strategies, practical tools, affirmations, and inspiration, SILWELL-C equips educators and leaders to create supportive, balanced environments where both staff and children can flourish.

Through workshops, consultations, and creative resources, Dr. Skyers-Gordon combines her in-depth expertise with a passion for cultivating resilience, connection, and calm in every space. Whether it’s through her upcoming Wellness Toolkit, the JamBel Storybook, or the Free Wellness Hub, she continues to design practical ways for educators and leaders to sustain their own wellness while inspiring others.

At its core, SILWELL-C is more than a program; it’s a movement: a reminder that when staff lead with wellness, schools grow with strength, calm, and confidence.

https://www.silwellc.com
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