Category Archives: Communication

(#438) You May Not be the Gift in the Room

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Effective collaboration rests on the ability to share the stage. In the early 1990s, the public high school where I taught created a committee called the “Shared Decision-Making Committee.”  I was tapped as its first chair.  The stated mission of … Continue reading →

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(#435) Community Requires Respectful Communication

Posted on September 23, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

You better think. A few of the reviewers for my forthcoming book, Community as a Safe Place to Land, noted that a community will be hard pressed to exist without respectful communication. Respectful. Indicative of politeness or deference. Communication. Communication … Continue reading →

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(#433) Verifying Truth

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

You won’t find a step that says evaluate a source based on what “my group believes” or “who tweeted the most” or “how much I dislike a source.”  2012: Maybe it is the heat of the political campaign season. The … Continue reading →

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(#430) Reality? Question the Buddha

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Everyone talking or interrupting and not much listening. People speaking what they want to hear. Ignoring all else. Continuing my theme from last week’s post… We find inspiration in surprising places if we choose to stop, listen, and reflect.  This … Continue reading →

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(#427) Someone Must be the Grown-Up in the Room

Posted on July 29, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

The leader helps us see what is possible, especially when we do not have that vision in our experience. Transformation does not just appear. It requires vision, thought, communication, respect, difficult questioning, and better listening. Transformational leaders help orchestrate that … Continue reading →

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(#422) Ask. Listen. Act.

Posted on June 24, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Noise abounds as people tell us what we should and should not. Perhaps we do the same to others. I stood in the back of an auditorium in New Mexico.  In ten minutes, I would be introduced to an audience … Continue reading →

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(#421) Step Out, Stretch, and Experience

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

You make your partner look good. The scene is never about you…. When we learn we either acquire new skills and knowledge or modify old structures of knowing and doing.  It helps us adapt, change, survive, grow, and thrive.  The … Continue reading →

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(#416) A Safe Place to Land

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

I kept hearing about the connections between congregants and neighborhood, congregants and congregants, as well as congregants and their own souls. Consider this. It’s 1993. You are an exuberant minister with a young and growing family.  You walk into a … Continue reading →

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(#414) Come Together: Food, Friends, and Family

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

The food might have brought us together; the bonding kept us coming back. The word hygge or coziness comes to us from the Danes and it describes the feeling associated with “good drinks, good friends, and conversation” says Dan Buettner. … Continue reading →

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(#405) Communication or Statement?

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Are we listening to others—and to ourselves? One activist described communication as understanding someone else’s experience and presenting a point within that experience. “Even the most elementary grasp of the fundamental idea that one communicates within the experience of his … Continue reading →

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