Beyond The Class: From Knowledge To Action

Mary Margaret Thomas, an alumnus, and facilitator from Aspen, Colorado, joins the podcast to discuss parenting. She shares with us how the Our Community Listens skills have had an impact over the past six years and how it has directly helped her engage with her son. This podcast has many great reminders about creating focused and intentional behaviors. Keep your ears open!

Marsha Burns - Our Community Listens Director of Curriculum Quality and Content Development - has over 30 years of experience teaching and servicing Fortune 500 companies in building and delivering leadership training. Through the first 26-minutes of this podcast, Adam J. Salgat, Sarah Weisbarth and Marsha discuss how her passion for people led her to Barry Wehmiller and eventually Our Community L...

In this episode, we are going to hear a conversation between Lead of Alumni Enrichment, Sarah Weisbarth, and alumni Michelle Marshall. Michelle is a Professional Counselor at Missouri Baptist Children's Home in St. Louis, MO. She's been in the social service field for 22 years. As part of her profession, she often listens to solve. But the class has changed that. In the following conversation hear...

Have you ever been so upset or even so excited that you did something completely foolish or destructive? Like punched a wall, tried something dangerous because of the adrenaline rush or said something hurtful out of frustration? In this conversation, Adam J. Salgat sits down with Sarah Weisbarth to discuss the logic and emotion bubbles from class and how one directly affects the other. Sarah share...

Adam Salgat sits down with Misty Janks and Sarah Weisbarth to discuss how to handle difficult conversations.https://www.ourcommunitylistens.org/

Adam J. Salgat sits down with lifelong educator and Texas firecracker, Cynthia Bayuk-Bishop to discuss her partnership with Our Community Listens. Together they are bringing the principles of the Our Community Listens curriculum to students in 8th-12th grade. As the conversation continues, charming Cynthia shares her passion for youth, meeting people, sports, and food. So take the time to learn ho...

When your business card states you work for a 'listening' organization, you better do just that. But what happens when you put on earmuffs and dive deep into interrogation mode as a parent? What happens when your kids call you out on it? What can you choose to do? Tune in as host Adam J. Salgat talks with Our Community Listens Executive Director Rebecca Emerson about her blog titled 'Listening is...

Host Adam J. Salgat talks with Our Community Listens Facilitator Sarah Weisbarth as she opens up about what prevents her from being empathetic at times. She discusses her triggers and how she overcomes them. The two of them also discuss the benefits of being an empathetic person and how to start changing our mindset on how empathy is a part of your life.

Host Adam J. Salgat talks with Our Community Listens Facilitator Sarah Weisbarth about how to create a safe space with employees, friends, and family to give and receive feedback.

Listen in and be encouraged as Adam talks with facilitator Sarah Weisbarth about significant behavior change. There are resources available to you as you adjust and consider what you can do differently to improve.

Adam and Sarah work their way through the communication cycle. www.ourcommunitylistens.org

Sharon Clement, Our Community Listens facilitator joins the podcast to tell us about the 'onion slide'. She takes us through the different layers that make up our personality and provides many different suggestions to expand our choices on how to change our behavior.www.ourcommunitylistens.org

National team members Executive Director, Rebecca Emerson and Strategic Initiatives Leader, Dustin Brown sit down with Adam J. Salgat for an informative look into their lives. We learn how they came to work with Our Community Listens, the impact it has had on them and what we can expect from the organization moving forward. We also spend some time discussing dream vacations, favorite fishing spots...

An alumni listener recently asked for reminders and inspiration on attentive behavior, how to listen without judgment and how not be the 'one-upper storyteller'. We are happy to talk about the topics our alumni need support with. Thank you for sending in an ask for an episode on being a Cheerful Communicator.

At the heart of our ability to provide meaningful recognition is the practice and attitude of gratitude. If we are going to be able to incorporate the Our Community Listens vision into our lives and relationships, understanding the value and intent of gratitude is going to be instrumental. Gratitude goes beyond a 'thank you' and we are grateful to you are listeners for tuning in.

Dedicating yourself to the emergency services field can be a strenuous, daunting and exceptionally difficult commitment. Working 24-hour shifts and stepping into life-threatening situations daily takes its toll. So how are emergency services leaders and staff incorporating the principles of Our Community Listens into their lives? How is it improving departmental and community connections? How is i...

The key to giving helpful feedback is to first be able to receive feedback. What?! Sharon Clement Our Community Listens Facilitator, coaches us through how to receive first and then give meaningful feedback. If we want the feedback we give to others to be meaningful and inspire growth and change then we first have to be able to receive and apply feedback ourselves.

Why is any of this important? Stretching beyond ourselves to connect with others can be work. Sharon Clement provides inspiration and stories that will help us value setting our own issues aside to grow in our relationships with others.

Adam Salgat sits down with Michigan Chapter Leader, Leanne VanBeek, for a refresher of the DISC assessment and the behavioral tendencies of each category. They discuss how people lean towards the negative once they learn their tendencies and how to flip the lens to find the positive side. They also break down how to approach and connect with each style. Visit our new website - www.ourcommunitylist...

Maggie Gerardi understands the impact of investing in her team. Executive Directors, team leaders, Superintendents, small business owners, this podcast is for you. Director of Whitcomb Terrace Assisted Living in Aspen Colorado, Maggie took CST and was so inspired that she invited her team of 12 to apply, and then supported them as they worked together to cover each other's shifts so that each pers...

Adam has some big announcements for the OCL podcast and website. #thefutureisbright

Acceptance, is it possible? You have the choice and the skills to navigate through acceptance. Listen to Leanne VanBeek OCL Michigan Chapter Leader as she talks through what skills to use in the difficult space of acceptance.https://www.ourcommunitylistens.org/course-calendars

You always have a choice - Listen as Misty Janks, OCL professor and Impact Director discusses personal power, OCL and choice in life, parenting and work. In any situation you have a choice to move toward acceptance, adjustment, or ask for change. What will your move be?

The experience of the OCL class is profound for many of our alumni. Amy Phoenix, Alumni and Intern shares how the class impacted her personally and with her family and parenting approach. We all have the power to change......how do we want to use that power?

Reflective listening is easy to do if you sincerely care about others. Stopping what you are doing, focusing in and really listening to others matters. Being able to respond reflectively with a fact and feeling helps others know that you are both listening and that you care. Listen in as we review reflective listening and try to make the reflective response a little easier.