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Comments on The Balancing Act The Balancing Act is one terrific
book! I love the way Sharon Seivert takes us on an intuitive and
practical journey toward more balance in our lives. Sharon weaves
a web through our personal lives, relationships, and organizations
to what really matters to us. Everyone who wants a more reasonable
approach to living in today's world should read this book. Just as Richard Bolles' What Color is Your Parachute is
the Bible for people in career search, Sharon Seivert's new book,
The Balancing Act, is the definitive
work for those seeking life balance. The Balancing Act is a tour de
force with references to science, literature, music, religion, and
mythology. . . . This book is impressive, supportive, educational,
and self-enhancing-an extraordinary achievement. An important and much needed work on the intersection between personal,
interpersonal, and professional development. The Balancing Act . . . serves
as a road map, reminding me that how I get there is just as important
as where I go. The Balancing Act is an extraordinary
and important work! Life in this world is in critical need of balance.
Sharon Seivert has created a system that moves individuals and organizations
beyond the traditional into the universal possibilities for success. The Balancing Act is a must read
for any CEO who wishes to deal more effectively and comfortably
with today's diverse and volatile workplace. I have long endorsed
the wisdom and unique leadership of Sharon Seivert to my clients-this
latest gem should be on their reading list! Sharon Seivert's Elements of Success
workshop was spectacular. I felt lighter than air when I left. She
is very powerful at helping people put their ideas into words and
pictures. Discovering your real identity, vision, and mission is
a must for anyone going into business. Without that connection to
the heart of who we are, work is meaningless. Seivert's beautiful perspective on balancing life's often competing
demands is theoretically rich and both practical and action oriented.
The Balancing Act encourages us
to carefully examination who we are-at our core-as a way of understanding
what actions we should devote our time and energy to. When we act
from this center, we end up both more effective and more satisfied.
Sharon Seivert's Elements of Success
process, really helped our organization focus on a common purpose.
We want to be on the cutting edge in health care-and I feel that
Seivert's message is our ticket to that end result. Once again Sharon Seivert has hit the tap root on the tree of leadership.
Synthesizing the wisdom of the ages with the challenges of modern,
dot-com leadership, Sharon provides a valuable resource for coaches
and leaders alike. This book is a must-read for anyone in career or life transition.
Finding your "center" is as important as finding the right
job-and it's a big help in getting you there! The Elements
of Success process helped our management team slow down and
focus on our common values. Working through the elements, we identified
the areas in our organization that were out of alignment with our
core values. Seivert's enthusiastic, no-nonsense leadership pushed
us to develop a working mission statement that will provide us with
motivation through the "tough times." The Balancing Act succeeds where
other self-help books falter because of Sharon Seivert's wisdom
in emphasizing the importance of starting from the core of who we
are in bringing balance to our lives-all aspects of our lives-from
the personal to the planetary. I have been through many strategic planning sessions over the past
25 years. What is different about the Elements
of Success is that it is easy to understand and apply. I
have watched this model work with everyone from CEO's to line staff,
bringing them all together to improve their organizations. Sharon Seivert's presentation on The
Balancing Act gave the members of my department a unique
and insightful look at how they approach their work lives, what
is important to them, and how to maximize their job success. It
is a fun and interesting way to look at issues anyone in the business
world wrestles with. The most important influence the Elements
of Success had on me was that it helped to redefine my career
goals based on who I am, rather than on the environment around me.
With Sharon Seivert's system, I started my career search by defining
my own identity and worked outward, knowing that in this way the
end result would always be true to my self. The Elements of Success process
was very helpful to me and my partners in building a strong foundation
for our new management consulting business. Working together in
this way to explore our shared values, hopes, and fears and to get
clear about our new vision and mission, was both exciting and bonding
From now on, I'll be enthusiastically recommending this work to
my own clients. The Elements of Success provides
a holistic approach to customer service that combines both personal
and organizational purpose. What I particularly like about Sharon Seivert's Elements
of Success model is that it views learning as an essential
process that emerges, in response to experience, from a person's
core identity. Seivert translates complex concepts into an accessible
framework that shows how individuals and corporations can learn,
evolve, and adapt in a changing environment. The founding team at Avanti Solutions was expertly led by Sharon
Seivert and Lee Estridge through the Elements
of Success process. In addition to accomplishing our stated
objectives of defining and clearly articulating our corporation's
key components, we reaped the bonus benefits of building closer
relationships and gaining additional insights into our individual
motivators. Most importantly, we had fun with the various thought-provoking
exercises! Through the Elements of Success
process I was able to redefine my own life and work and set new,
exciting, and personally rewarding goals. Having a true understanding
of my own "elements of success" also provided me with
a framework for helping my business clients succeed by gaining a
better understanding of their full potential. Sharon Seivert's approach to customer service is based on a key
premise: individuals are happiest when they can align their values,
motivation, and core assumptions about providing service with their
actual delivery of service. In that context, customer service conflicts
can be viewed as opportunities to realign their behavior with what
they report to be most important in their lives. Striking a delicate balance in the colliding worlds of personal
and professional life requires constant reassessment. The
Balancing Act challenges us to make the commitment to that
assessment, reassessment and the attendant juggling of personal
and professional lives. It has allowed me to make the periodic recalibrations
required to afford a measure of success in all aspects of my life.
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