Tom Rohrer - Success Works Coaching

Tom Rohrer
PhD, MFT

1250-I Newell Ave., No. 225
Walnut Creek, CA 94596

(925) 944-0131
Email:drtom@success
workscoaching.com
Web:www.successworks
coaching.com and
www.tomrohrer.com

As a performance coach and the owner of Success Works Coaching, Tom works with individuals, groups and businesses on a range of human performance issues.

Tom will help you get clarity on your goals and provide strategies to achieve them, while keeping a balanced and healthy lifestyle. Coaching will help you increase your happiness, health and success.

Through coaching, Tom will help you uncover your cognitive, emotional and psychological obstacles, develop your best personal structure and the strategies and tools for developing your optimum performance.

Focuses:
  * Building Resilience
  * Authentic Happiness
  * Conflict Resolution
  * Public Speaking
  * Sports Performance
  * Test/Evaluation Anxiety

For more information about Success Works Coaching visit www.success
workscoaching.com and
www.tomrohrer.com

(925) 944-0131
Email:drtom@success
workscoaching.com

June 2007

In This Issue
To achieve peak performance from those who look to you for leadership in whatever organization or group you lead, it's essential to have a strong foundation of trust. The lead article discusses some of the elements needed for high-trust leadership. The Top 10 offers tips for doing the best possible with difficult conversations, and the quiz examines control issues. Enjoy! To reply to this newsletter, please click here.

Becoming a Trusted Leader
"We can build our leadership upon fear, obligation, or trust. However, only a foundation of trust results in the collaboration and goodwill necessary to achieve our peak performance." These words, from organizational design expert Roger Allen, could hardly be more succinct in expressing the central role that trust plays in building and leading high-performance organizations. Full story here.

Ways to Handle Difficult Conversations

The fallout from conversations gone wrong is not pretty: trust suffers, while resentment and misunderstanding build. But it is possible to improve the way we handle our most difficult conversations. Consider the following tips. Read more here.

Becoming a Fair Fighter: Resolving Interpersonal Conflicts Ecologically
If the motivation for a mutually beneficial, long-term relationship is present, all relationships can benefit from conflict resolution ideas. The win-win outcome can feel really good when you get a significant amount of what you want and you know that the other party did also. Best of all your relationship can continue and flourish. You can learn to be a skillful fair fighter and successfully deal with life’s inevitable disagreements with others. There are three essential features that are mandatory to understand, embrace and utilize. Read article here.

How Controlling Are You?
We all know them…the folks who MUST CONTROL EVERYTHING. Perhaps it’s the boss at work who has to have a hand in every little detail of your work, or the parent who directs every aspect of their child’s life. When they have a choice, people don’t usually like to be around controlling individuals. Take this quiz to see how controlling you might be. Read more here.

Relevant Reading
Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have, by Justin Menkes

3D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals, by James K. Sebenius and David A. Lax

Happy Hour is 9 to 5: Learn How to Love Your Job, Create a Great Business and Kick Butt at Work, by Alexander Kjerulf

Today's Quote
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
--Andre Gide