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

August 2009

In This Issue
May the coming month bring you greater access to your own internal resources as well as increasing success. As you read through the articles this month, please don't hesitate to call if I can help.

Article: Putting the Value Back into Performance Evaluations
Top 10: Ways to Handle Adversity
Quiz: Are You a Perfectionist?
Beyond the Box
Relevant Reading
Today's Quote

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Cartoon Putting the Value Back into Performance Evaluations
We have disposable contact lens and disposable cameras. Lest we add disposable employee appraisals to the list, we might want to consider ways to put more "value" into performance evaluations. That way, they become more a roadmap for development than a short-cut that leads nowhere.

Performance appraisals for all employees are often completed annually within a short time frame, which doesn't usually lend itself to careful, honest, well-thought-out evaluations. The standardized forms may end up looking like cookie cutter documents with similar wording, strengths and weaknesses.
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Ways to Handle Adversity

We've all experienced difficult times, often through events outside our control. Here are 10 suggestions for dealing with those hard times. Go to Top 10.

Are You a Perfectionist?
Perfectionism can cause feelings of anxiety, fear, and self-doubt; it can cripple self-esteem, stifle creativity, and put a stumbling block in the way of intimate friendships and love relationships. Ultimately, it can create or aggravate illnesses such as eating disorders, manic-depressive mood disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance abuse.

Everybody has some "built-in" perfectionism, especially in our achievement-oriented, competitive culture. Complete this questionnaire to discover how perfectionistic you are. Go to quiz.

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."

How could you add value to the evaluations you write? How could you receive more value from the ones you are given?
How does a leader handle adversity?
When is action the right step in adverse situations? When is inaction?
When are your actions serving excellence, and when are they serving perfectionism?
What would you free up in your life if you let go of perfectionism? How would your body feel and move?

Relevant Reading

Stand Out! Branding Strategies for Business Professionals, by Simon Vetter

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, by Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston

The Contrarian Effect: Why It Pays (Big) to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite, by Michael Port and Elizabeth Marshall

Today's Quote
"Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die."
~James L. Hayes