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January,
2005 Welcome
to Leadership Hand™, a free, monthly e-newsletter To ensure receipt of each issue, please add our e-mail address "Info@" plus our domain name to your address book. This tells your software Leadership Hand™ is e-mail you want! 1. Simple Magic: Being Seen For several summers, I have been a buddy at a camp for grieving children--those who have lost loved ones. It may sound like a difficult thing to do. It can be. But children's ability to engage in play interspersed with grief beautifully illustrates human resilience and the whole we call our lives. One of the events during the weekend involves a musician named Stream. He's a Scandinavian with music resonating in his eyes and a warm, engaging presence. In addition to the delight of his music I witnessed something so powerful I fully understood what coaching does for my clients. While Stream sings, he makes full eye contact with each child (and each of us adult children)--punctuating his song with a pointed finger and the word "you." I watched each child's face light up with the acknowledgement--with having been seen. I, too, lit up when he pointed directly to me. All that training, all those theories on how to help leaders be their most effective selves, and here was that simple magic in a musician's interaction with children: we want to be seen. When I work with clients that is what I do. I see them at their best, the essence of what is most powerful about them. I hold that vision while they step into it and learn to take action from that place. When they limit themselves through behaviors or thought, I support and challenge them to stand in a different place. Amazing things happen there. Is this unique to me and my coaching? Of course not. I personally am "seen" by my many: mentors, friends, associates, and my parents (who are in their 80s and still affirm me in every conversation). While I view myself as accomplished, with a passion for business leadership, they see me as bigger, even more vibrant, even more extraordinary than I perceive myself. And that is what I become. How about you? Who is "seeing" you--the fullest expression of yourself as a leader? Whom are you "seeing?" If you think you don't have people in your life who give you this gift, first check again. Surely they are there and in numbers greater than you may at first suspect. Notice the gift they offer and fully receive it. (Sometimes that can take practice.) In turn, offer
this gift to others. The quality of your life as a
leader To being seen… Beth Hand © Copyright 2007, Beth Hand. Beth Hand, MBA helps leaders increase their effectiveness and satisfaction, now and for the future. She can be reached at (+1) 703.820.8074 or via her website www.leadershiphand.com. 2. Thank You! One Year Anniversary We are celebrating the first year of publishing Leadership Hand™! Thank you for the wonderful feedback, and for your readership. It is a pleasure to write to and for you, to help you and other leaders achieve results more quickly, easily, and enjoyably. 3. Executives in Career Transition Mark Spring
on your calendar when we restart our monthly meetings to help you
speed the career transition process. Hand Associates is the host
for Execunet executive networking meetings in alliance with DBM
(formerly Drake Beam Morin), a global provider of strategic HR solutions.
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