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The Power Of Validation

Dr. Joseph Peck — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:55:46 +0000

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward

When they had read it, they rejoiced over its encouragement. (Acts 15:31)

What kind of impact does validating others have?
What would the world be like if we all took a purposeful intent to be more validating of others?

In late October 2008 I went to the Relational Coaching Network (RCN) retreat at a beach house in Virginia Beach as guests of Jerry and Sharon Graham. In response to an email request by Tony Stoltzfus, a well-known, well-respected coach trainer who is the founder of the RCN, I agreed to videotape a session at the retreat about “How to Form and Run a Coaching Cell.”

Tony felt very strongly that for coaches to continue to be part of the RCN, they needed to participate in their coaching cell groups with at least 3 life coaches. So on December 4, Jerry, Deborah Smith, and I had our first 3-way coaching meeting over the phone. During that meeting, Jerry recommended we invite Ben Stewart to also be part of our group, which we gladly did. Ben accepted.

Yesterday afternoon, we had our first 4-way coaching cell group meeting with Jerry, Deb, Ben, and me, with Jerry serving as facilitator. Wow! This was an awesome blessings for all four of us with lots of encouragement and validation.

During the course of our conversation, Jerry shared one of his recent “two-way” (Jesus and him) journal entries. That prompted me to share one of my recent two-way journal entries. In response to that, Deb said that one of the things the LORD is holding her accountable to from this conversation is to journal again.

Later I shared a recent revelation that members of Team Destiny are like players on the same football team. When one player (e.g. the quarterback) does very well, that’s good for the entire team and all the players regardless of their role or notoriety. In response to that Jerry said, “Everyone gets the Super Bowl ring when the team wins.”

This led Jerry to highly recommend that we all watch a 16 minute movie about validation that he wrote about in one of his Daily Gram blog posts on December 5. Jerry said that is one of his favorite short videos in the past several years. Jerry reminded all of us that validating others is part of our DNA as coaches.

So after our meeting, I read Jerry’s blog post titled “Power of Validation” and then watched the video on that web page. That was well worth my time and such an encouragement that I decided to make today’s message about that. Enjoy the video at today’s Link of the Day.

Prayer Power
Heavenly Father, we praise You as the God of encouragement, the greatest Encourager ever, the God who validates us as children of God. I pray that everyone who watches the validation video will feel encouraged and validated, so much so that they will encourage and validate many others whom they meet. Thank You Jesus. Amen and hallelujah!

Link of the Day
Power of Validation video

Blessings to feel validated and to validate others!

Joseph

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Meet Darrell Peck

Dr. Joseph Peck — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:55:04 +0000

Career Accomplishments of Darrell L. Peck
PRESS RELEASE (April 28, 1994)

Mr. Darrell L. Peck retired on April 30, 1994, after nearly 39 years of Government service. He had served as Deputy General Counsel in the Office of the Secretary of the Army since January 1979 and attained the highest level of the Senior Executive Service. The Secretary of the Army awarded Mr. Peck the Distinguished (Civilian) Service Medal, the highest civilian decoration within his authority.

Before becoming Deputy General Counsel, Mr. Peck had more than 23 years of military service in the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. During that service, he had been both a Division and a Corps Staff Judge Advocate, Director of the Academic Department at The Judge Advocate General’s School, and Chief of the Administrative Law Division in the Office of The Judge Advocate General. In addition to the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star he was awarded in Vietnam, he had received numerous honors and awards for exceptional academic achievement, professional writing, and outstanding military service, including a second Legion of Merit upon his retirement in the grade of Colonel.

As Deputy General Counsel, Mr. Peck has made an immeasurable contribution to the Army, not only by providing the highest quality legal advice, but also in the formulation of Army-wide policies, procedures, and programs in an extremely wide variety of areas.

Unquestionably, the single area for which Mr. Peck is most widely renowned is Government ethics. He was the Army’s Designated Agency Ethics Official and served as overall manager of the Army’s ethics program for over 15 years, planning and directing the program since the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 first took effect. Under his direction, the Army’s program has been widely recognized as among the best, Government-wide. Many of its features have been adopted by the Department of Defense and other departments. Demonstrating his recognized preeminence in this area, he is the only person invited to chair a panel at every national Government Ethics conference, from the first in 1980 through its latest in 1993. He was invited by the Senate staff to present his ideas for ameliorating the harsher consequences of the 1988 Procurement Integrity Law, and his suggestions were the basis of most of the changes later passed by Congress. When Congress decided to revise the ethics laws, his recommendations led to amendments making the new Ethics Reform Act of 1989 more practical. These contributions have benefited the entire Executive Branch.

Throughout his tenure, his ethics advice to successive Secretaries of the Army and other top Army officials has been crucial in protecting them and the Army from potential embarrassment. He has been an important player in the appointment process for civilian Presidential appointees to top Army positions, dealing with the White House, the Office of Government Ethics, and the Senate, as well as prospective nominees, to ensure a smooth confirmation process. He has guided departing officials through the thicket of restrictions relating to their departure and future employment.

He also is recognized as one of the country’s foremost experts on military personnel law, particularly in the area of officer promotions. He has often played a leading role in the formulation of the Department of Defense’s position on military personnel issues, as well as the Army’s. He has made important contributions to the smooth functioning of the officer promotion system, particularly on sensitive issues involving general officers. He has been especially active in developing fairer procedures to promote equal opportunity for women and minorities and for handling adverse information. When Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm triggered an avalanche of concerns about military personnel laws, he was instrumental in developing and implementing measures to get the job done.

Litigation for which he was responsible frequently entailed large sums of money. For example, in two major groups of cases involving military officers, solutions he proposed eventually ended massive litigation which threatened to cost the Army billions of dollars in unwarranted back pay and retirement costs. Just as often, the cases involved important policies or the Army’s ability to carry out essential programs.

While he has been recognized as one of the Department of Defense’s leading experts in subject areas such as Government ethics and military personnel law, the breadth of his responsibilities, like his execution of them, has been truly remarkable. These included:

Implementation of the Panama Canal Treaty and resolution of many sensitive problems arising from the changed status of the Canal Zone.
Military assistance to civil authorities, including law enforcement; drug interdiction; natural disasters; civil unrest; Presidential inaugurations; and the Olympics.
Ensuring the legality and propriety of intelligence activities.
Disposal of hazardous munitions, chemicals and other materials.
The authority of the Secretary of the Army and other senior officials.
Travel and transportation issues.
Many issues relating to Arlington Cemetery, including the rules preventing demonstrations.
Developing humane standards for human experimentation.
Negotiating a breakthrough with the U.S. Postal Service, ending a 20 year impasse and giving the Department of Defense authority over mail security overseas.
The Army’s implementation of the Civil Service Reform Act and of the Senior Executive Service system.
Gifts to the Army, numbering in the thousands and worth millions of dollars.
Use of water from Corps of Engineers reservoirs, where the legal position he developed was cited by U.S. Supreme Court as the basis of its decision.
The reorganization of the Department of the Army under the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act.
Freedom of Information policy, where he tenaciously led the fight against Department of Defense adoption of a policy to release lists of military personnel to commercial solicitors, a position subsequently vindicated by the U.S. Supreme Court.

He has had the unique experience of heading a total of six special task forces and study groups at the personal direction of the Secretary of the Army. In addition, he has served as a personal trouble-shooter for the Secretary of the Army on numerous occasions.

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Joseph

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