..a meaningful experience..

Hello everybody!

How are you?
Here everything is going well!

First of all I would to thank people who came to our party last Saturday! It was enjoyable cooking Italian food for everyone!!

On Tuesday we got the chance to attend the second lecture of our Leadership course. If you remember Elisabeth and Emanuel told you about the first one we have attended.
I want to share with you this experience because it was really exciting and very interesting.
The speaker was Bob Phillips, President and CEO, Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Guide Dogs is the largest guide dog program in North America, serving over 3000 blind.
The core value of this organization is matching a skilled dog with a blind person to create a guide dog team.

I was totally involved in his speech because he talked as a man and not as a leader and he let us see the idea of leadership from a different perspective.
He started his speech asking us the following curious question…
What are you lacking from inside of you to receive your success and your goals?
And the answer was…
NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
Maybe you have only covered up some of your extraordinary qualities!

In fact he told us that to become a leader “from heart” first of all you have to become a fully man!

A good leader is someone who is able to listen to other people, to get in touch with them, to help them.
A leader has to feel and to live his personal and business life with head, mind and especially with heart because, he said, life is love and to be loved!

He said that a leader should create a deeper connection with world around him by love, joy, compassion, forgiveness, legacy, well-being and interdependence!
There is a huge power in collaboration!

The take home message I had was: TRUST IN YOURSELF and HELP other people with your energy!!

I was in tune with him because I think that with love and collaboration we can really change the world!!!!!!!!

THINK POSITIVE!

See you soon

Micol