Sharon Seivert - The Balancing Act: Mastering the Five Elements of Success in Life, Relationships, and Work

PRAISE FOR SHARON SEIVERT AND THE BALANCING ACT

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.

Shaw Sprague, Psy.D., Consultant Owner Managed Business Institute

The Balancing Act is a must read for any CEO who wishes to deal more effectively and comfortably with todays diverse and volatile workplace. I have long endorsed the wisdom and unique leadership of Sharon Seivert to my clientsthis latest gem should be on their reading list!

Suzanne Crow, CEO, Unemployment Tax Control Associates, Inc

The Balancing Act is a tour de force with references to science, literature, music, religion, and mythology. Seivert guides her readers toward balance with a helpful, loving handa Virgil leading Dante through the Inferno. This book is impressive, supportive, educational, and self-enhancingan extraordinary achievement.

Morton Newman, M.D. (Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst)

Sharon Seiverts 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.

Suzanne Bates, President, Bates Communication

Seiverts beautiful perspective on balancing lifes often competing demands is theoretically rich and both practical and action oriented. The Balancing Act encourages us to carefully examine who we are at our core. When we act from this center, we end up both more effective and more satisfied.

Kevin Bourne, Executive Coach & Work/Life Consultant, Ceridian Corporation

Sharon Seiverts Elements of Success process, really helped our organization focus on a common purpose. We want to be on the cutting edge in health careand I feel that Seiverts message is our ticket to that end result.

Steven Kravetz, Owner, Center for Extended Care at Amherst and

The Arbors at Amherst 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.

Kris Girrell, Executive Performance Coach, Camden Consulting Group

The accelerated velocity of change over the past ten years has been extraordinary. Ultimate measures of success may remain, but if we are to be successful, our journey will require a fresh perspective and the courage to do honest self-analysis. I have found The Balancing Act to be tremendously helpful in facilitating my own journey. It serves as a roadmap, reminding me that how I get there is just as important as where I go.

Jeremiah White, Vice President, Fidelity Investments

This book is a must-read for anyone in career or life transition. Finding your center is as important as finding the pre-right joband its a big help in getting you there!

Frank Cullen, President, Keystone Partners (career counseling)

The Elements of Success process helped our management team focus on our common values. Working through the elements, we identified areas that were out of alignment with our core values. Seiverts enthusiastic, no-nonsense leadership pushed us to develop a working mission statement that will provide us with motivation through the tough times.

Karen Jackson, Director, Loomis Communities

The Balancing Act succeeds where other self-help books falter because of Sharon Seiverts wisdom in emphasizing the importance of starting from the core of who we are in bringing balance to our livesall aspects of our livesfrom the personal to the planetary.

Louisa Mattson, Business Psychologist

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 CEOs to line staff, bringing them all together to improve their organizations.

Donna Clarke Salloom, Manager, ECCLI 2 Project (workplace education)

The Balancing Act, presents an inspirational message underscoring the legitimacy and wisdom of balance as a goal, both for ourselves and our social institutions. An important and much needed work on the intersection between personal, interpersonal, and professional development.

Howard Seidel, Ed.D., Executive Career Consultant

Sharon Seiverts 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.

Bonnie Michelman, CPP, Director of Police, Security, and Outside Services Massachusetts General Hospital

The Elements of Success provides a holistic approach to customer service that combines both personal and organizational purpose.

David Crimmin, Senior Organizational Consultant, Bose Corporation

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 Seiverts 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.

Neil Martin, Co-owner, White Magdelena House

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, Ill be enthusiastically recommending this work to my own clients.

Ken Estridge, Partner, CxO Management

What I particularly like about Sharon Seiverts Elements of Success model is that it views learning as an essential process that emerges, in response to experience, from a persons 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.

Steven Cavaleri, President, Knowledge Management Consortium International

By using the Elements of Success process, the founding team at Avanti Solutions accomplished our stated objectives of defining and clearly articulating our corporations key components. We also built closer relationships and gained insight into our individual motivators. Most importantly, we had fun!

Paul Gasparro, Partner, Avanti Solutions (a mergers & acquisitions advisory service)

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.

Patricia A. Campbell, Principal, Campbell Performance Strategies

Sharon Seiverts 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 conf licts can be viewed as opportunities to realign their behavior with what they report to be most important in their lives.