Former CEO of PeopleSolutions Founds New Company to Provide On-Site Executive Coaching, Assessment and Talent Management

After leading one of the country's fastest-growing human resources consulting firms PeopleSolutions, Ed Rankin is helping meet another burgeoning need in today's tight labor market. Rankin has founded the Manera Group, a Dallas-based company that provides customized on-site executive coaching as well as assessment and talent management.

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) December 5, 2007 -- After leading one of the country's fastest-growing human resources consulting firms PeopleSolutions, Ed Rankin is helping meet another burgeoning need in today's tight labor market. Rankin has founded the Manera Group, a Dallas-based company that provides customized on-site executive coaching as well as assessment and talent management.

The Manera Group is positioned to address the leadership crisis in American business, as more than 76 million baby boomers move toward retirement in the next 15 years. The firm's coaching services are also designed to fill the gap left from the restructuring of U.S. business that eliminated many traditional management development programs.

"Neither the academic or business world has adequately prepared the Gen-X or Gen-Y generations for the assumption of the leadership roles being vacated by baby boomers," said Rankin, who was formerly president of People Solutions, named one of Inc. Magazine's fastest-growing companies in the United States. "This is one of the ways that companies are investing in the 20 percent of the organization's leadership and professionals who create 80 percent of the value."

Executive coaching is designed to support and accelerate the development of key performers as companies deal with the prospect of potentially high turnover among their leadership in the years ahead, Rankin said. The executive coaches at the Manera Group partner with clients in a thought-provoking creative process designed to maximize their personal and professional potential.

"We work with emerging leaders who are naturally creative and resourceful and simply need to improve on what they already have, but we also help enhance the effectiveness of valuable managers whose performance has veered off course," Rankin said. He added that executive coaching is poised to become for this decade what total quality management was to the 1980s. "In the past, coaching may have been viewed as a last-ditch effort, whereas now it's becoming a perk and a sign that the company is willing to invest in you."

The Manera Group also offers assessment services, which are designed to identify and develop high-potential executives, and assist companies in defining organizational talent needs, selecting successful candidates and putting the right talent in the right position. The talent management services offered by the Manera Group are aimed at succession planning and team development.

For more information about the Manera Group, visit www.maneragroup.com

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