Speaker: Sara Hand

When do they decide?

Sara Hand — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:10:47 +0000

Recently I began to ask audiences, “When does a fireman decide to run into a burning building?”

The variety of answers is surprising:

When the alarm goes off.
When he sees it burning.
When someone inside calls for help.

Good answers…yet not quite accurate.

Firemen decide to run into burning buildings when they decide to become firemen. In the middle of the night when the alarm goes off, they don’t consider whether they feel like running into a building. When they see a building burning or when someone calls for help, thoughts of “Do I feel like doing this?” aren’t even a consideration. They simply get up and do what they have been trained to do.

In today’s economic climate, many times you may not feel like doing “it”. You may be teetering. But, is failure really an option? Although uncertainty pervades our culture, is “not” performing really a consideration? Or like the fireman, have you made a decision to face fear, to face uncertainty and to do what you have been trained to do regardless of your feelings at any given moment?

Beyond Patterns…Moving Outside the Box

Sara Hand — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:24:06 +0000

Sara Hand helps individuals and organizations move beyond current patterns of thought, communication and expectation that habitually, often unconsciously, and sometimes compulsively shape our interactions, successes and failures.

If you want better answers…ask better questions! If typical or traditional isn’t working, try “moving” outside the box. Sara will help your team change the way they look at change…really!

Leadership…Moving Your Team Forward

Sara Hand — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:19:59 +0000

Leadership is not a job or a role that you play, but a lifestyle…an expression of who you are. When you plant words of life, you reap rapport and relationship. Rapport and relationship positions you for influence and influence can position you for almost anything.

However influence and leadership is not cheap. There is a price to pay. A price of accountability and of responsibility to those you lead, to those over whom you have influence. Good leadership doesn’t make decisions based on today or even just tomorrow.

Seeds of greatness lie within each individual. For many, those seeds will remain just that, seeds of unrealized potential and possibility. From others greatness will emerge. Lives will be changed and the world impacted as their choices ripple outward.

What makes the difference between those that become and those that don’t?

Being a leader and carrying influence is about being a steward over the potential of your team, of your organization…your company. It is about empowering them to step up and be leaders over their sphere of influence. It is about speaking to the possibilities that exist and moving towards that day by day.

How will your organization move forward, first as individuals and then as a team…TODAY?