Helping you overcome barriers you don’t even realize exist.

Uncovering hidden barriers.
Navigating complexity.

Real-time Perspectives is a boutique consulting firm, committed to uncovering hidden barriers that help clients respond effectively to volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous market forces. Through executive coaching, enterprise-wide talent development and guided change efforts,  gaps between current cultural norms and desired business results are identified. This is achieved through a variety of approaches: culture analyses, competency and performance assessments, process mapping and program design.

  • “Barbara was very adaptable to my style of thinking. I could tell that her personality and her style was different than mine, but she was able to really help me understand, and definitely set me up for success with the tools she provided me to self-reflect and reframe conversations.”

    Marc Whinnem
    Vice President of Operations
    Hospitality Business Network Solutions

  • "Barbara and I really connected quickly; I knew right away that I liked her style. She did not approach our work with the mindset of: we have to “fix” you. Rather, she focused on what I already excelled at and we built on that. In many of our sessions, she shared her belief that “the answers are in the room.” It’s this lens through which she coaches and it’s what was most beneficial to me in our work together. And it’s what has helped me find my voice so that I can navigate complex and difficult challenges with much greater confidence."

    Harmony Gould
    Vice President
    Pine Rest Hospital & Residential Services

  • "From my first interaction with Barbara, I was hooked. Fortunately, I was able to work with her in a small group setting and the experience was nothing but beneficial and eye-opening. Barbara challenged me to go beyond my typical leadership comfort zones and to see every interaction – both personal and professional – through a different lens. Consequently, I’ve altered the manner in which I interact with everyone I encounter."

    Shannon M. Cunningham
    Engagement Director
    Acrisure

  • "Barbara Rapaport is literally a ‘coach’s coach’–not only is she a master at supporting others’ transformative change efforts through our Immunity-to-Change approach, but we also are proud to have her as a faculty member in our programs, teaching experienced coaches how to integrate the approach into their own repertoires."

    Robert Kegan, PhD and Lisa Lahey, PhD
    Faculty, Harvard University
    Authors of     Immunity to Change
    Founding Principals of     Minds at Work (Cambridge, MA)

  • "Barbara had met me only briefly before she started working with me long distance by phone because we were in different continents at a time when I was swamped by a number of complex professional and personal challenges. I am still, many years later, astonished at the extraordinary intuition and understanding – the whole feel of me as a person – that she brought to bear at every session and by which she found ways for me to move beyond the ‘stuckness’ that held me."

    Connell Fanning, PhD
    Director, The Keynes Centre and Former
    Professor of Economics and Head, School of Economics, University College Cork (Cork, Ireland)

  • "Barbara is a masterful coach and wise, insightful guide who helped me to change and grow in ways that have made a tremendous difference and impact. Through her deep care, generosity, powerful insights, profound wisdom and her exquisite knowing and capacity to see inside, she helped me to make important connections and to grow. She is a truly gifted coach who will touch you and help you to change your life. You will feel very wise should you have the gift of Barbara as coach."

    Eleanor Drago-Seversen, EdD
    Faculty, Columbia University
    Author of     Helping Educators Grow

Helping Executives and Other Leaders Get “UnStuck.”

Even though our clients often recognize when they, or their teams, are stuck, they don’t always know why or how to get unstuck. Our coaching process is designed to accelerate the discovery of beliefs that limit, rather than expand, leadership potential.

What makes Real-Time Perspectives unique?

Using Hard Data to Enhance Soft Skills.

Soft skills, sometimes referred to as emotional intelligence, are an important foundation for leadership effectiveness, along with IQ and business acumen. All three factors are necessary for businesses to succeed in today’s increasingly global and competitive marketplace.

Respecting the Role of Culture

Our most engaged and determined clients want to figure what they don’t know about how cultural norms are supporting, or hindering, the achievement of organizational goals. We help leaders analyze their organization’s state of disharmony, often attributed to when human factors and environmental factors collide.

Areas of Expertise

  • We are strategic business navigators, guiding executives in the identification and implementation of sustainable solutions for big, complex problems. We listen to, and demonstrate our understanding of, their business aspirations and worries. We use a complexity lens to assess what’s getting in the way of achieving these aspirations, helping them take back much of the time they typically spend worrying about what isn’t getting done. We do this by accelerating self-discovery: uncovering how their own beliefs and assumptions may be imposing significant barriers to identifying sustainable solutions.

    We offer enhanced problem-solving capabilities by intentionally integrating seemingly disparate elements. Consequently, we evaluate your business challenges from two angles – starting with an analysis of hard data first and then identifying how this data analysis reveals deeper, often hidden, truths about the state of the business. These truths often offer insights into serious challenges associated with potentially outmoded cultural norms, employee disconnects with the overall business strategy and factors contributing to operational inefficiencies. If you do not have sufficient resources to address these challenges, we are always ready to lend a hand.

  • We work together to identify where you’re stuck and then help you get “unstuck” by getting out of your own way.


    You.
    • You describe your talents
    • You share your goals and outline your work challenges
    • You reflect upon your leadership style: how it does and
    doesn’t serve you in achieving your goals
    • You imagine how developing others can help you achieve
    your goals

    Me.
    • I listen and ask curiosity-based questions
    • I guide you to quickly and safely dig deep
    • I point out how you potentially may be sabotaging your own
    good intentions
    • I help you bridge gaps between how you lead now and how
    you would like to lead moving forward

    We.
    We set goals for sustainable change by:

    • Learning to manage multiple, complex, ever-changing
    priorities
    • Overcoming embedded cultural constraints
    • Analyzing and potentially redirecting your prioritization and
    time-management strategies

    We uncover what is holding you back and eliminate those barriers by:
    • Leveraging your current leadership capacities and technical
    skills
    • Reframing beliefs that impede your personal and professional
    satisfaction
    • Discovering ways to overcome your anxieties about failing, or
    ironically, succeeding

  • It's well-known that businesses, large and small, are finding it necessary to adapt to an unprecedented global economy and complex supply chain challenges. Because we view organizational culture as a critical lever in facilitating an organization’s ability to adapt effectively, we work with leaders to: assess their culture (current and future states), identify gaps and develop strategic implementation plans. The tool we employ is the Competing Values Framework, designed specifically to measure organizational effectiveness in light of strategic goals. The output contains both quantitative and qualitative data. We share these results with the leader and guide them in developing strategies to bring about sustained change – in areas where their organization has stagnated or lost traction.

  • Effective peer coaches don’t presume to be able to solve problems for one another. Rather, they listen and respond to one another in ways that accelerate learning through self-discovery – with curiosity and without judgment. They do this by encouraging one another to take in multiple perspectives and take time to reflect on them, something that’s often missing in today’s tightly scheduled workplaces.

    The peer coaching program we offer, Convu, is designed to give employees the tools and practices they require to uncover self-limiting beliefs that may impede their performance and/or development efforts. The most significant benefit to employers is the economy of scale. A minimal financial investment provides multiple levels in the organization with easy access to coaching.

    In tandem with an on-line and virtual learning platform, the peer coaching program offers tutorials on how to enhance listening and responding capabilities, guidelines for applying these capabilities in real-time coaching conversations and periodic check-ins with the facilitator.

  • Successful business outcomes require constant interplay between what the individual is expected to bring to the organization and what the organization must provide in return. In many instances, misalignments between the two can be corrected through effective systems design. We offer a wide range of customized design services that can be employed to optimize overall business performance: as-is and should-be process mapping, performance management structures, talent management – recruitment, selection, on-boarding, succession planning and instructionally-designed professional development programs.

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