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January 20, 2012

Getting the Results You Need

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

- T.S. Elliott


You want to make changes and reach your true potential, both on and off the job. You are ready to zoom forward. You know that you want to make the investment of time and money into your own professional development.  This post is the second in a series designed to help you find and hire the perfect professional coach.

Why invest in a professional coach? According to a recent study by Manchester, Inc., executives who received coaching services realized a sixfold ROI (return on investment).  Wow!  Imagine achieving as much in a single day as you did in the previous week.

The most specific improvements were in the areas of:

  • Working relationships up 77%
  • Teamwork up 67%
  • Productivity up 53%

These results speak for themselves.  Working with a professional coach can truly give you the boost you need to achieve the goals you’ve always dreamed of, both inside and outside of the office. Coaching isn’t for people who have hit “rock bottom”.  I have some people who seek my coaching services who are feeling overwhelmed, but in general, individuals who want to improve are the best and the brightest.  They want strategies to help their inner brilliance shine through.  Coaching provides customized professional development and heightened personal awareness that no other method can offer.

But how do you ensure that you are making a wise investment and hiring the very best coach who has your best interest at the heart of the engagement?

Stay tuned to this series of posts to help you get the information that you need to find the perfect coach.  Can’t wait for the next post? Buy the book Awakening the Workplace and turn to page 109 to read more about finding the perfect coach.

© Rita M. Perea, Leadership Expert and Success Consultant, 2012

Category: New Beginnings —

January 12, 2012

Revving Your Engine to Reach Your Goals

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ~Lao Tzu~

You know that you’re ready for change. You want it! You need it! You are revving your engines to move full-speed ahead. But… you aren’t quite sure how to determine your destination, map out your journey, and keep the gas flowing in your engines to get you where you want to go. So you just putter along. Or, like a car with a flat tire, you get stuck on the side of the road.
I have some great news to share! You can turn to a professional coach (like me), to help you get the clarity and confidence that you need to move forward.

A professional coach is a personal cheerleader and project manager all rolled into one. When you arrive at their office, they will help you determine what you want to achieve, map out a personal path to success, and then cheer you all the way across the finish line.

You are not alone!
You have support!
Your coach believes that you can do it and helps you make it happen!

Hiring a coach is an important investment in your personal and professional growth. But how do you ensure that you are making a wise investment and hiring the very best coach who has your best interest at the heart of the engagement?

Stay tuned to this series of posts to help you get the information that you need to find the perfect coach.

© Rita M. Perea, Leadership Expert and Success Consultant, 2012

Category: It's About Time! —

October 27, 2011

What’s Your Attitude?

What’s Your Attitude? from Rita Perea on Vimeo.

Category: Lessons from Leaders —

September 9, 2011

Managers Sphere of Autonomy

You can’t always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager’s got some sphere of autonomy. Don’t pass the buck up the line.
– Bob Anderson

Category: Lessons from Leaders —

April 18, 2011

Leader vs Manager Pt 1

“A leader knows what’s best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.” – Ken Adelman

Do these words resonate with you?

Strategic vs. Tactical

Visionary vs. Realist

People vs. Process

Leader vs. Manager.

There was a time when the responsibilities of the manager and that of the leader could be separated. A foreman in an industrial-era factory didn’t have to give much thought to what he was producing or to the people who were producing it. His or her job was to follow orders, organize the work, assign the right people to the necessary tasks, coordinate the results, and ensure the job got done. The industrial manager’s focus was on efficiency.

But in the new economy, where value comes increasingly from the knowledge of people, and where workers are no longer cogs in an industrial machine, management and leadership are not easily separated. People look to their managers, not just to assign them a task, but to define a purpose. To answer the

question “why?” in addition to suggesting a “how”. And managers must now organize workers, not just to maximize efficiency, but to nurture skills, develop talent and inspire results.

The late management guru Peter Drucker was one of the first to recognize this truth, as he was to recognize so many other management truths. He identified the emergence of the “knowledge worker,” and the profound differences that would cause in the way business was organized.

With the rise of the knowledge worker, “one does not ‘manage’ people,” Mr. Drucker wrote. “The task is to lead people. And the goal is to make productive the specific strengths and knowledge of every individual.”

In your day-to-day position as a “knowledge worker” are you leading? Are you managing? Have the lines blurred in this new economy?

 

Category: Leadership —
 
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