by Peter Cammarano | Dec 15, 2016 | Coaching
One of the buzzwords in leadership development these days is ‘appreciative inquiry.’ One way to define appreciative inquiry (AI) is “the cooperative search for the best in people, their organizations, and the world around them. It involves systematic discovery of...
by Peter Cammarano | Dec 13, 2016 | Personality and Leadership
A friend of mine, Jason Byassee who teaches at Regents College in Vancouver, Canada (and holds a Ph. D. in theology at Duke Divinity School), wrote more than a decade ago in Christian Century Magazine about the latest fads in church growth: I have tried to emphasize...
by Peter Cammarano | Dec 12, 2016 | Change Management
What does good look like? It is human to judge and to measure. We are meaning making, measuring machines. We all have our categories for “What good looks like” at home, at work, and even at church. Those categories often are based upon our history. I remember how...
by Peter Cammarano | Oct 30, 2016 | Personality and Leadership
As an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and a trained psychotherapist, ten years experience coaching, and assessing clergy on their personality and leadership style, I have had a ring side seat to too many disasters and tragedies. Pastoral care during and...
by Peter Cammarano | Oct 29, 2016 | Coaching
Peter Cammarano was born in Cocoa Beach, FL but grew up outside of Houston in The Woodlands, TX. He is a graduate of McCullough High School, Stephen F. Austin State University (BS: Industrial/Organizational Psychology), The Divinity School at Duke University (Masters...