Category Archives: mentoring

(Issue #649) Lessons from Third-Graders

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Steve Piscitelli

I started collaborating with five students who quickly reminded me I still have so much to learn. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This week marks ten years since I retired from teaching. I was fortunate to be in the classroom for thirty-three years: middle … Continue reading →

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(#425) A Community of Mentors for Music, Hope, and Rainbows

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Neighbors entertaining neighbors while enjoying the company of other neighbors. Research tells us that “hope” requires three ingredients: Goals + Pathways + Agency. Our goal—a rainbow that attracts and draws our attention—must be valuable to us and/or our community.  A … Continue reading →

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(#281) Collisions for Collaboration or Crashes of Confusion?

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Steve Piscitelli

Whether talking about the college classroom or the corporate boardroom, conscientious nurturing of authentic relationships improves the chances for effective communication, meaningful connections and powerful creation. A major work published in 1991 on effective college teaching emphasized the importance of … Continue reading →

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(#276) Mistakes, Disappointments, Curiosity and Growth

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Steve Piscitelli

When we choose not to dare because we might “risk feeling disappointed” we end up “choosing to live disappointed.” Nearly thirty years ago I made a huge professional mistake.  At that time I decided to make a career move from … Continue reading →

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(#254) The “Five Ps” of New Employee Mentoring

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Steve Piscitelli

Does your organization effectively “on-board” new team members? This semester I had a wonderful opportunity to mentor a first-year full-time professor on our campus. And since our campus does not have a formal new faculty mentoring program, we kind of “made … Continue reading →

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