Tom Rohrer - Success Works Coaching

Tom Rohrer
PhD, MFT

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

925-595-6433
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

925-595-6433
Email:drtom@success
workscoaching.com

July 2009

In This Issue
Over the coming month, may you find increased fulfillment, opportunity and ease. As you read through the articles this month, please don't hesitate to call if I can help.

Article: Everyday Leadership: An Inside Job
Article: Avoiding Burnout
Beyond the Box
Relevant Reading
Today's Quote

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Cartoon Everyday Leadership: An Inside Job
David sparked a fruitful conversation about waste when he gently asked the cafeteria manager at his workplace whether food might be served without unnecessary containers or wrapping, unless requested.

Susan worked a whole year to bring a group of high school students from New Zealand to the United States to train other students in an effective form of peer mediation.
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Avoiding Burnout
When we're worried about our jobs or financial losses, when we're grateful to even have work, considering the possibility of burnout can feel beside the point, like one of the luxuries we just can't afford any longer.

However, we deny burnout at our peril, because whether we recognize it or not, it impacts us in myriad ways.
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The following questions are designed to broaden perspectives, to open vistas, to widen the lens. There is no one right way to approach them. You can journal about them, talk to friends, create art, ponder them while driving, work out to them--whatever helps you explore "outside the box."

1. How and where and who do you lead now?

2. What is the relationship between passion, action and leadership?

3. What would you like to change or how else would you like to contribute? What is your first step?

4. What is being burned out keeping you from? What does it serve?

5. Which of your values are you dishonoring when you are in a state of burnout?

Relevant Reading

Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, by Geoff Colvin

Transnational Leadership Development: Preparing the Next Generation for the Borderless Business World, by Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Ph.D and Kathy D. Geller, Ph.D

The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition, by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Today's Quote
"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."
~Gail Sheehy