Does distress cause you anxiety or contribute to physical pain, ill health or unhappiness? Medical research proves that 80% of illness is caused--or made worse--by excessive, toxic stress . If this "silent killer" is harming you, choose to SWITCH OFF STRESS instead! SOS:Switch Off Stress is a practical book that provides 101 Fast Ways to stop distress before it harms you. (All techniques are from 6 seconds to six minutes.) This book contains hundreds of references to easy instructional videos, audios, websites and other excellent resources that will help you regain your good health and sense of happiness, well-being and balance. This print version of SOS has an accompanying web site with direct links to all the resources it references (go to http://www.thecoreporation.com/sos_links).SOS is based on the global template for balance and well-being, i.e., the center and the four directions. To learn more about SOS and/or to discover which one of six possible kinds of stress most adversely affects you, take the Free Stress Quiz at www.thecoreporation.com.THE PROBLEM: You probably KNOW that you're stressed and have heard all the dire warnings about what could happen if you ignore this problem. However, you're also likely to be discouraged because stress relief activities take too much time out of your already-packed days. So, you may wind up not doing ANYTHING at all—why? Because you're already too stressed!! In fact, it may feel as if beating distress is an “all or nothing” game you keep losing because you're missing some key information about how to play and win. TO THE RESCUE! SOS serves as a rapid response team that helps rise to the challenge of stress by doing SOMETHING–right now–wherever you are–no matter how little time you have–to relieve the anxiety or pain you're feeling. WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK SPECIAL? • SOS offers a treasure chest of well-tested techniques: This book contains a wide array of really fast stress-busters from a variety of cultures and traditions. My colleagues, clients and I have tried these all these tools and found them highly useful. • You can try it before you buy it by taking a Free Stress Quiz.• SOS activities are really fast: 6 seconds to 6 minutes--and you can cut that to no time at all by: a) integrating SOS actions into other tasks (working, walking, and waiting); or, b) replacing inefficient, bad habits with SOS's more functional responses. • Shows where you can learn more: SOS provides links to excellent resources so you can delve deeper into the tools you most like. YOU WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS BOOK IF YOU: • Have too much stress and would like to do something effective to reduce it. • Prefer a practical guide with detailed instructions about how-to meet the daily challenges of stress. • Want to help friends or family members stop worrying so they can become more relaxed and happy. • Are a professional caregiver (health care provider, therapist, coach, counselor, trainer, leader/manager, HR professional, teacher). • Want to transform your life so you become more balanced, healthy, happy, loving, courageous, intuitive, and creative—i.e., your best possible self. BACKGROUND: SOS: Switch Off Stress is based on The Balancing Act: Mastering the 5 Elements of Success in Life, Relationships, and Work. For the past decade, many professionals have used The Balancing Act (TBA) processes in their fields (business consultants, therapists, health care providers, teachers, and executive, life or career coaches). Both TBA and SOS are organized around the universal holistic healing template of the center and the four directions (i.e., the 5 Elements of Success and Synergy). The Balancing Act teaches a powerful, step-by-step evolutionary process that helps you improve your health, resilience, creativity, effectiveness, and happiness by strengthening and aligning all of the Elements of Success.
Since the original publication of The Balancing Act in 2001, the ideas contained in these pages have grown into a global movement. Seivert has developed an international network of business and educational colleagues, plus a comprehensive series of pragmatic programs, online assessments, supportive interventions, and detailed measurements of progress -- all of which have contributed to significantly increasing the odds of success for individuals and companies in transition.In these pages you will find the foundational body of work that led to this rich development of effective interventions for people from all walks of life -- and from all over the world -- ranging from wealthy business owners and senior leaders to career changers and new entrepreneurs to beleaguered teachers and at-risk youth. See below what some of them have said about how The Balancing Act has benefitted them: "Over the past decade, I have used the Core Leadership program to help hundreds of leaders positively transform themselves, and therefore their teams, companies (and families.) The ancient philosophy of The Balancing Act is the most systemic, powerful and comprehensive leadership development process I know. And it leads to miracles; they do happen! " - Auke van Keulen, Consultant, Exec Coach, DeCoreporation, The Netherlands"Sharon has a remarkable ability to manage difficult entrepreneurs with ease and humor, keeping them on track to deliver tangible results. She has a gift for quickly identifying exactly how leaders get in their own way AND helping them remove obstacles to success." - R. Reade, SVP, Washington DC Archangels"During a crossroads in my career, Sharon coached me to overcome obstacles and doubts, and then supported me in making a bold decision that I've never regretted. What's more, Sharon has achieved similar amazing results with patients I've since referred to her." - - T. Moriyama, M.D., Psychiatrist; Instituto Bairral Hospital "Sharon is so warm and welcoming that I have seen people from every walk of life enthusiastically accept and love her. Students treat her like a rock star, teachers like a expert colleague, and parents like a trusted advisor. - C. Beira, Founder, Espaço HillasThe Balancing Act author, Sharon Seivert, is President of CORE Coaching & Consulting, an international consortium of business consultants, coaches, and teachers who use The Balancing Act programs to foster greater balance, productivity, health and happiness in clients' lives, work and relationships. Sharon lives and works in Cambridge, MA, US. For more information about Sharon, The Balancing Act, and the many TBA programs available to you, go to: www.CoreCoachingConssulting.com
Working from Your Core describes ten different models of human behavior and organizational culture. Its power lies in the fact that these models are "archetypes"_universally recognized patterns, models of behavior that are inherent in the human psyche. They are core to who we are. It shows how to cope with workplace challenges by calling upon our most heroic, noble selves. Working from Your Core shows why personal transformation is a prerequisite to success and how to use the heroes archetypes to achieve success. · Thoroughly tested, solid conceptual bases · A tangible way to measure and work with theory · Prudent combination of business experience and psychology
• Highly effective strategies that help people and businesses succeed using the five elements of water, air, earth, fire, and ether. • The five elements represent emotion, mind, body, drive, and soul. • Presents case studies from Seivert's organizational and executive clients in financial services, health care, government, academics, technology, retail, and marketing. • The unique tools in The Balancing Act can be applied equally well to businesses, families, or personal relationships. Have you ever had one of those days when everything went right? When the initiatives you started at work came together like clockwork, when a family outing seemed like fun and not labor, when you and that special someone felt your relationship taking off under its own power? Those times were not accidental. They happen when the key elements of any system--a business, a family, a relationship--come into balance, and then function in a state of synergy where the whole becomes much more than the sum of the parts. In The Balancing Act, consultant and personal coach Sharon Seivert shows how you can create this magical state of affairs in your life, love, and work on a daily basis. Starting with an extensive questionnaire that lets you evaluate the health of your business, relationships, and self, Seivert teaches you how to recognize which of the five traditional elements that make up any system are in balance and which need more of your attention. Exercises and tips for nourishing each element demonstrate how you can take a proactive role in bringing your life successfully into a state of balanced harmony.
In Knowledge Leadership, Cavaleri and Seivert describe the dawning of a new era in which individuals are “leading” rather than “managing” knowledge. In the past, many knowledge-based initiatives have failed because leaders underestimated the powerful link between knowledge and performance improvement – and also because they mistakenly thought that “information” was the same as knowledge. Cavaleri and Seivert claim that, while information is a necessary precursor to knowledge, it is not sufficient in itself for improving business performance. The authors describe notable organizations that use the pragmatic knowledge strategies they describe to gain competitive advantage. Pragmatic knowledge is the result of individuals’ developing a deeper understanding of how (and why) things work best in practice. The process of creating pragmatic knowledge transforms key lessons from systems thinking, total quality management, and organization learning into a powerful new business strategy. To help readers apply the concepts and tools in this book, Cavaleri and Seivert draw on case examples and a decade of original cross-cultural research about knowledge leadership. They also invite readers to use The Knowledge Bias Profile to discover their knowledge leadership style. The book systematically outlines a user-friendly strategy for becoming a knowledge leader and for building high-performing, knowledge-based organizations.
First published in 1998. This work details a range of archetypes which are commonly represented in any kind of organization. They range from the innocent to the jester; from the magician to the warrior. The book is intended to help the reader to understand the personal archetypes that drive us and our organizations.
• Highly effective strategies that help people and businesses succeed using the five elements of water, air, earth, fire, and ether. • The five elements represent emotion, mind, body, drive, and soul. • Presents case studies from Seivert's organizational and executive clients in financial services, health care, government, academics, technology, retail, and marketing. • The unique tools in The Balancing Act can be applied equally well to businesses, families, or personal relationships. Have you ever had one of those days when everything went right? When the initiatives you started at work came together like clockwork, when a family outing seemed like fun and not labor, when you and that special someone felt your relationship taking off under its own power? Those times were not accidental. They happen when the key elements of any system--a business, a family, a relationship--come into balance, and then function in a state of synergy where the whole becomes much more than the sum of the parts. In The Balancing Act, consultant and personal coach Sharon Seivert shows how you can create this magical state of affairs in your life, love, and work on a daily basis. Starting with an extensive questionnaire that lets you evaluate the health of your business, relationships, and self, Seivert teaches you how to recognize which of the five traditional elements that make up any system are in balance and which need more of your attention. Exercises and tips for nourishing each element demonstrate how you can take a proactive role in bringing your life successfully into a state of balanced harmony.
In Knowledge Leadership, Cavaleri and Seivert describe the dawning of a new era in which individuals are “leading” rather than “managing” knowledge. In the past, many knowledge-based initiatives have failed because leaders underestimated the powerful link between knowledge and performance improvement – and also because they mistakenly thought that “information” was the same as knowledge. Cavaleri and Seivert claim that, while information is a necessary precursor to knowledge, it is not sufficient in itself for improving business performance. The authors describe notable organizations that use the pragmatic knowledge strategies they describe to gain competitive advantage. Pragmatic knowledge is the result of individuals’ developing a deeper understanding of how (and why) things work best in practice. The process of creating pragmatic knowledge transforms key lessons from systems thinking, total quality management, and organization learning into a powerful new business strategy. To help readers apply the concepts and tools in this book, Cavaleri and Seivert draw on case examples and a decade of original cross-cultural research about knowledge leadership. They also invite readers to use The Knowledge Bias Profile to discover their knowledge leadership style. The book systematically outlines a user-friendly strategy for becoming a knowledge leader and for building high-performing, knowledge-based organizations.
First published in 1998. This work details a range of archetypes which are commonly represented in any kind of organization. They range from the innocent to the jester; from the magician to the warrior. The book is intended to help the reader to understand the personal archetypes that drive us and our organizations.
Now more than ever, companies and individuals are facing nearly impossible odds - challenges so tough that nothing less than all-out magic is needed. Based on extensive research into the creative practices of great magicians from lore and history, like Merlin, Perseval, and others from King Arthur's Court, Pearson and Seivert analyze the stages of the great magicians' educations. From this research they show how one can begin to realize one's highest powers of creativity and effectiveness." "The stages of learning that every aspiring magician must undergo: hearing the call to magic - discovering the need for it in one's life; initiating - or how to think freshly about a problem; testing oneself and one's strength in the face of mighty challenges; drawing a success out of failure; and sharing one's powers as ancient magicians did in the practice known as "casting circle."" "This is a handbook on how to work magic in your life. From rituals to actual magical practices adapted for use in the workplace, Magic at Work instructs and inspires."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Now more than ever, companies and individuals are facing nearly impossible odds - challenges so tough that nothing less than all-out magic is needed. Based on extensive research into the creative practices of great magicians from lore and history, like Merlin, Perseval, and others from King Arthur's Court, Pearson and Seivert analyze the stages of the great magicians' educations. From this research they show how one can begin to realize one's highest powers of creativity and effectiveness." "The stages of learning that every aspiring magician must undergo: hearing the call to magic - discovering the need for it in one's life; initiating - or how to think freshly about a problem; testing oneself and one's strength in the face of mighty challenges; drawing a success out of failure; and sharing one's powers as ancient magicians did in the practice known as "casting circle."" "This is a handbook on how to work magic in your life. From rituals to actual magical practices adapted for use in the workplace, Magic at Work instructs and inspires."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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