Category Archives: resilience

(#239) Reflecting on Meaningful Professional Development

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Steve Piscitelli

Professional growth benefits the organization and the people it serves. Just as importantly, the growth can stimulate and sustain personal resilience. The end of every semester brings with it a balance sheet of sorts.  What went well? What could have … Continue reading →

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(#228) Motivation: What Gets You Going—and Keeps You Going?

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Steve Piscitelli

Identify a motivational best practice you have used in the past. How can you apply this to a current dream you have? On the first day of class each semester, I ask my students to write their college dream into … Continue reading →

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(#225) Awareness

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Steve Piscitelli

If we think we are the best we can be, then we will never be the best we could have been. On September 27, I have a wonderful opportunity to deliver a TEDx talk in Jacksonville, Florida.  I get fifteen … Continue reading →

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(#199) Retirement? Let’s Rename It

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Steve Piscitelli

Whenever “retirement” comes for me, I know it will not be a work stoppage or a forgetting of the past but rather a grand anticipation and embrace of what the future holds. At the beginning of this calendar year, I … Continue reading →

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(#194) Honor the Past. Celebrate the Present. Embrace the Future.

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Steve Piscitelli

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” (Soren Kierkegaard) In 2009 I was at Lynn University to facilitate a series of presentations for faculty and students. During one segment of a studio interview I reflected … Continue reading →

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(#184) Gratitude: Appreciating Wonder

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Steve Piscitelli

Life is one choice after another. Why not choose gratitude? The rewards are wonderful. Before class this past Wednesday (day before Thanksgiving) I took out a piece of paper and wrote “Thankful for…” across the top. In a short time, … Continue reading →

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(#181) Knowing—Doing—Being

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Steve Piscitelli

“We are human beings—not human doings.” In a blog on leadership development, Colleen Sharen wrote about the 10/20/70 rule for effectiveness. Simply this means that 10% of leadership development comes from training, 20% from mentoring, and 70% from actually applying … Continue reading →

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