Deborah Huyer
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Deborah Huyer Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Human Resources - Tech Industry
- Career Focus
- Organizational and Executive Coach
- Affiliation
- Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and Staffing Management Association (SMA), Human Resource Planning Society (HRPS), and the Pacific Northwest HR Strategic Forum.International Coach Federation
Deborah has over 20 years of experiences as an HR leader, business manager, entrepreneur and consultant, giving her the ability to effectively coach her clients to higher levels of performance and success. A provider of results oriented coaching and organizational consulting Deborah Huyer brings a rare combination of business management experience and HR leadership to early stage and rapid-growth companies.
Deborah’s passion is helping individuals, managers and companies create definitions of success and focused goals to achieve results, through coaching oriented performance management.
“My professional mission is to eliminate the outdated “annual performance review” and replace it with meaningful and effective coaching cultures” she says.
Her approach is to engage clients in coaching conversations that challenge them to generate new thinking beyond their current limits – helping successful leaders get even better.
Deborah’s quick wit, her ability to stand strong in the presence of difficulty and uncertainty, as well as her true belief that people can harness and direct change to create significant accomplishments in business and in life, enable her to make a lasting difference with clients and organizations alike.
Deborah is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) a current member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and Staffing Management Association (SMA), Human Resource Planning Society (HRPS), and the Pacific Northwest HR Strategic Forum.
As an Executive and Organizational Coach, Deborah’s passion and expertise is in helping individuals, managers and companies build definitions of success, create focused goals and achieve results through coaching and performance management.
In addition to her professional pursuits, Deborah is an avid hiker and high country backpacker in the Pacific Northwest, and participates in the Susan G. Koman, 3-day, 60 mile Walk for the Cure each year to raise funds to fight the war against breast cancer. She lives in the Emerald City of Seattle in the summer and Phoenix Arizona in the winter.
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What is Executive Coaching?
Bottom line … It can be lonely at the top ! Executive coaching gives you the opportunity to examine your choices as a leader in a confidential and candid setting. Imagine having an objective and committed partner to work through the issues that you are facing. The coaching process is not only about increasing or improving performance, it is also about shifting the way you see and interpret the world which allows you to choose new actions aligned with your goals. After all, we know you cannot continue to do the same things, over and over again, while expecting new results.
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“Death of a Dinosaur: The End of the Annual Performance Review”
The annual performance review has become a dinosaur because it has failed to change and evolve much in the last 50 years, while everything around it in business has. 50 years ago we had secretarial pools, carbon paper and mimeograph machines for making copies. Everything was sent “snail mail” and the Fax machine hadn’t been invented.
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Deborah Huyer Answers Follow-Up Questions from “Death of a Dinosaur: The End of the Annual Performance Review”
Letting go of the cheese I am asked, “Can companies keep the annual review while they move to a coaching process and culture?” For those of you who have read “Who Moved my Cheese?” you can’t get your new cheese until you let go of your old cheese, so that answer is – no. This is true for many reasons. As part of my research I interviewed managers, directors and execs. Some of the questions I asked were, “What do you get from doing an annual review? Why do you do them? What value do they provide?”
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