by carriesteppgraves | Oct 2, 2017 | communications, digital media, graduate degree, organizational management, Spirituality
Are you looking for ways to make your business relevant and effective? Are traditional business models and workplace protocol weighing you and your employees down? I can help. Let’s work together to set goals for your business that express your creativity, give...
by carriesteppgraves | Sep 17, 2017 | communications, graduate degree, organizational management
Although the Human Resources organizational management movement didn’t exist in the Middle Ages, I like to think that the seeds of it were alive in some ways in monastic life – everyone motivated to work toward a common goal, the bringing of the Kingdom of...
by carriesteppgraves | Sep 11, 2017 | communications, digital media, graduate degree, organizational management, religion, Spirituality
Today’s American organizational landscape is arguable still very much a top-down model. From large corporations, to factories, to government structure and hierarchical churches, the pyramid-like shape of the bishop’s mitre first the classical management...
by carriesteppgraves | Aug 23, 2017 | communications, graduate degree
Today I am posting a link to my final paper presentation for the course Communicating Mindfully. In it, I use the theory of distance in interpersonal relationship as a tool for relational success in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The paper focuses on the...
by carriesteppgraves | Aug 21, 2017 | communications, graduate degree, Spirituality
I see today’s “monk without a monastery,” or “monk in the world,” as a champion of dialogue and discernment, who builds community and healing. As I continue my education, it will be my responsibility to take steps to increase my...
by carriesteppgraves | Aug 13, 2017 | communications, graduate degree, health and wellness, organizational management
The night I checked into the hospital to have my first child, I was cared for by a doctor I had never met. She was new to the OB/Gyn practice where I was a patient and I had never had an office visit with her. My optimism at the thought of having my child had led me...
