Prosivendola
Prosivendola
Discovering the compassionate communication that unites us
Those of you who have been following my articles know that, in 2019, I wrote a lot about compassionate communication. I shared my thoughts on the power of beautiful words, on the healing miracle that is the human voice, on the importance of silence to communicate...
Two basic mistakes to avoid in your next elevator pitch
I have just participated in an innovation projects’ evaluation committee, an exercise in which 12 candidate solutions competed to win European funds destined to extend their activity for 1 year. Of the 12, only 5 projects finally had access to money, so I insist: they...
Difficult conversations: some ideas
We continue along the path of a most conscious and compassionate communication. I want to close the year by addressing a central issue in the development of our relational skills: how to best manage those difficult conversations that we all experience in our work and...
Discovering the compassionate communication that unites us
Those of you who have been following my articles know that, in 2019, I wrote a lot about compassionate communication. I shared my thoughts on the power of beautiful words, on the healing miracle that is the human voice, on the importance of silence to communicate...
Two basic mistakes to avoid in your next elevator pitch
I have just participated in an innovation projects’ evaluation committee, an exercise in which 12 candidate solutions competed to win European funds destined to extend their activity for 1 year. Of the 12, only 5 projects finally had access to money, so I insist: they...
Difficult conversations: some ideas
We continue along the path of a most conscious and compassionate communication. I want to close the year by addressing a central issue in the development of our relational skills: how to best manage those difficult conversations that we all experience in our work and...
To bathe in oneself
It's a piece of advice that I learned from Kim A. Page years ago. In my first training with her, this phrase got carved in stone for me: "the night before your presentation in public, pamper yourself a bit, take the time to bathe in yourself, doing or enjoying...
Learn to wait, trust for the tide to flow…
So many times, compassionate communication must begin with oneself. As in these hot days of the Mediterranean summer, when it is easy to get impatient believing that the whole world has entered a lethargy from which it will never wake up. “That who waits, despairs”,...
Learning communication from spring
In these bright days of the Mediterranean spring, I walk in nature and I find it impossible not to get emotional by the explosion of life that this season is: the din of the birds, the buds everywhere, the colors and those green perfumes that flood everything. I guess...
On silence before the verb…
Before the memory of winter disappears completely in this spring that arrives with impetus, let’s make our third stop on the path of compassionate communication. It is the turn of silence, a great and unknown ally in the art of good communication. I remember what they...
Our voice, that miracle in decline
I started 2019 with a shared desire that we communicate using beautiful words in our relationships. I continue this personal journey through aspects of compassionate communication reflecting on the human voice, because it seems to me that it is going through rough...
Words that are beautiful as flowers…
We already know that communication is not only about the words we use when speaking or writing. Out voice pitch, our body language, our facial expressions, our look, our general attitude and even our thoughts are also powerful means to communicate with others. We are...