Joyce Weiss

I work with organizations and individuals who want to kick conflict and chaos to the curb - Queen of Conflict Resolution and Communication Coach

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Joyce Weiss says to Run Away from Negative People

#negativepeople #motivationalquote

One of my favorite quotes on negative people is, “Don’t walk away from grumpy people, RUN!

 

Nuke the Negative People negative people

Write the names of negative people who bring you down. Plan to protect yourself from their negativity. Take back your power. Only you can make yourself feel insecure. Tell yourself that no one makes you feel inferior without your consent. It’s the negativity that is so dangerous. It is extremely contagious.

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Replace people who pull you down with people who encourage and appreciate you. The choice, in many cases, is up to you. Who encourages you during tough and positive times?

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I want to hear from you

Add a comment to my blog on how you “run away from negative people.” You are always welcome to send me a private email with concerns that you are experiencing at work.

Please share this and any article that speaks to you or your company. Loyal readers like you help us find more people who could benefit from these posts. Help us help them reduce conflict and improve leadership skills and quality of life.

Please visit my YouTube channel or connect with me on LinkedIn where I have posted numerous stories about having tough conversations with difficult people.

Please contact me at 800.713.1926 to explore options for working with me as your private coach. Find your voice with Joyce is one of our new taglines. Discover blind spots and how your communication impacts the success of your career. All sessions are conducted on the phone to fit your schedule and budget. The good news is that it usually only takes a few sessions to improve your communication skills.

This is Joyce Weiss, M.A., CSP
Career Coach and Communication Strategist

 

Until next time, remember…”You Get What You Tolerate!”

P.S.  You will receive more messages like this in the next few posts.  I am taking the quotes, artwork, and strategies from my 3 booklets.  This one is from 19 Secrets for Successfully Navigating Life’s Potholes, Ruts, and Obstacles.

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Video #12: David’s Inspirational Story from Take the Ride of Your Life

Do you want to hear how I found inspirational stories from people who overcame obstacles and became successful?
I will be sharing a few of the stories from my book, Take the Ride of Your Life in the next few videos.

Welcome to video #12 in the series Secrets from a Trainer How You Can Engage Your Audience.

 Here’s David’s Inspirational Story

David, an accountant, related this story: “As a boy, I knew my father was proud of me. Unfortunately, he didn’t know how to show
There wasn’t a whole lot of positive attitude in my house,” David remembered. The dictum, “You must behave,” was drilled into him and his siblings time and time again.

“In school, I was the class clown. I couldn’t talk at home,” he said, “so, I had to express myself elsewhere.” David was around ten or eleven years old when he learned how to ride a bike. “Some friends taught me. I used a neighborhood boy’s bike: I didn’t have one of my own. I fell and got up again right away.

I felt good whenever I was on a bike as if anything was possible.” David’s wife has helped him focus on keeping a positive attitude.
Before they were married, she told him: “I won’t marry you if you become like your father.” Today, David is grateful. “I don’t want to
raise my kids the way my father raised me.”

Today’s Lesson From David’s Inspirational Story

  • What lessons did you learn from your childhood?
  • How can you create your own inspirational story?
  • How does David’s story speak to you?

Stay Connected with Me

Add a comment to my blog if you relate to David’s inspirational story.  What lessons can you use from your childhood?

You will receive a response from me because I enjoy connecting with my readers! 🙂  You are always welcome to send me a private email
with concerns that you are experiencing at work.

Here’s a Special Offer for my Readers Joyce Weiss | Career Coach | Corporate Communication Strategist

Buy a copy of Take the Ride of Your Life and I’ll send you the 2nd book with my compliments to give to a friend or colleague for free.  You will receive 2 autographed copies.  I will write, “A gift to you from ____” on the free copy.  Sound good?

You will receive two of your own copies of Take the Ride of Your Life for the price of one book.  It will only cost you $22.00 (retails for $47 which included 2 books, tax, postage, and handling.)

Please send me an email and I can call you with your payment information plus you can tell me who to autograph your book and your friend’s book on the call.  If you would rather call me on my cell, please do 248.310.6998

You will also receive my best selling booklet, 19 Secrets for Successfully Navigating Life’s Potholes, Ruts, and Obstacles.

Click HERE to see chapter titles and more details about Take the Ride of Your Life.

Here are the Links to the Videos in Secrets to Engage Your Audience

Video 1
arrive early

Video 2
sit with your audience

Video 3
how to use humor

Video 4
using props

Video 5
danger:  don’t be boring

Video 6
movement exercises

Video 7
evaluations

video 8
why I talk about conflict

Video 9
why I became a career coach

Video 10
handling push back from the audience

Video 11
how to find your story

Until next time,

Joyce Weiss, M.A., CSP
Career Coach and Communication Strategist

Have a great week.

Remember, YOU Get What YOU Tolerate!

P.S. Career Advancement is like riding a bike. Shift Gears from coasting to owning the road!

 

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Video #11: How to Find Your Own Stories to Engage Your Audience

Welcome to Video #11 in the Series Secrets from a Trainer on How to Engage Your Audience.

Clients ask me how they can find their own stories to share in their training or speeches.  I’ve watched many trainers and speakers over my career.  The ones who connect immediately are real and share a story or two about themselves.  Of course, the stories have to be focused on their topic.

I started listening to storytellers in Detroit and learned how they engaged the audience immediately.  This experience allowed me to look inside to find my own stories.  I had to train myself to pay attention to the lessons that I learned from my childhood and the mistakes that I made!  The stories finally appeared like magic.

One of my favorite ones is when my father taught me how to ride my first two-wheel bike.  This story helped me write my 2nd book, Take the Ride of Your Life.  I will read portions of Take the Ride of Your Life in the next few videos.

Today’s Lesson on Finding Your Story to Engage Your Audience

  • What about you?
  • How can you find your story?
  • Dig deep inside.
  • Think of the lessons you learned from your childhood or your career.
  • What mistakes did you make and most importantly, what did you learn?

Stay Connected with Me

Add a comment to my blog on what stories you are thinking about or even use when trying to engage your audience.  You will receive a response from me because I enjoy connecting with my readers! 🙂  You are always welcome to send me a private email with concerns that you are experiencing at work.

Please contact me on my cell 248.310.6998 or 800.713.1926 to explore how career coaching could be a great action step for your career development. There are many options to fit your budget and time schedule!   My last 7 clients have asked me to help them feel more comfortable with their public speaking skills.  It only takes a few sessions to make this happen.  Hey, what can I say?  I’m quick and clients use their new public speaking skills immediately.  A win/win for all.  🙂

Here are Videos 1-10 in the series, Secrets from a Trainer to Engage Your Audience 

Video 1
arrive early

Video 2
sit with your audience

Video 3
how to use humor

Video 4
using props

Video 5
danger:  don’t be boring

Video 6
movement exercises

Video 7
evaluations

video 8
why I talk about conflict

Video 9
why I became a career coach

Video 10
handling push back from the audience

 

Until next time,

Joyce Weiss, M.A., CSP
Career Coach and Communication Strategist

Have a great week.

Remember, YOU Get What YOU Tolerate!

P.S. Career Advancement is like riding a bike. Shift Gears from coasting to owning the road!  

 

 

 

 

 

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Video 10: How to Handle Push Back From Your Audience

By now I hope that you view me as your personal communication strategist.  I have a few questions for you.

  • Have you experienced an audience member who pushed back your ideas during a training or speaking engagement?
  • How did you handle it?
  • Do you want to learn a secret from this communication strategist on how I handled a disgruntled audience member?

Welcome to video 10 in the series Secrets from a Communication Strategist to Engage Your  Audience.

The Communication Strategist Dilemma 

I was coaching a group of men and women who work with the public including the homeless population.  Paul, an audience member blurted out his thoughts in a loud and sarcastic voice.  “Joyce, you seem like a nice person BUT this will not work when we speak with people who live on the street.”

The Communication Strategist Solution

I took a deep breath and said, “Paul,  you’re right.  This strategy won’t work with the homeless.  It will work when you have communication issues with your colleagues.”

Paul took a step back (this is a good sign) and said, “You are right Joyce.  Thanks for coaching us on how to make the conversation safe at work.

 Today’s Lesson

Agree with the disgruntled person when someone pushes you back.  Your next step is to counter with a strong statement about how your strategy will work in another setting.  Of course, there will be times when agreeing with a disgruntled person is not appropriate and it won’t work.

Stay Connected with Me

Add a comment to my blog on how you deal with negative audience members.  You will receive a response from me because I enjoy connecting with my readers! 🙂  You are always welcome to send me a private email HERE with concerns that you are experiencing at work.

Read How I can be Your Private Communication Strategist

Do you want more information on this powerful communication technique called verbal aikido?  There are 3 options.

  1.  Please look at my online coaching program Communication Skills at Work HERE.    The coaching course is perfect for those of you who want to work with me as your online communication coach.  We work together through email as you read the self-study manual to advance your career and improve your relationships.

2.  Another option is to purchase your own copy of the Communication Skills at Work Self Study Manual HERE.
The self study manual was designed for those of you who want to read about the techniques on your own.

3.  You can also contact me to discuss how we can work together on the phone with me as your own communication
strategist.  We have several options to fit your schedule and budget.  Please contact me at my cell 248.310.6998 or
800.713.1926 to explore how career coaching could be a great action step for your career development.

Here are the Videos in the  Series Secrets from a Trainer How to Engage Your Audience

 

Video 1
arrive early

Video 2
sit with your audience

Video 3
how to use humor

Video 4
using props

Video 5
danger:  don’t be boring

Video 6
movement exercises

Video 7
evaluations

video 8
why I talk about conflict

Video 9
why I became a career coach

 

Until next time,

Joyce Weiss, M.A., CSP
Career Coach and Communication Strategist

Have a great week.

Remember, YOU Get What YOU Tolerate!

P.S. Find your voice with Joyce!

 

 

 

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A Motivational Quote to Help with Your Communication Challenges

Are you ever caught off guard during communication challenges?

Do you want to leave the table when others push you about your view about politics, religion, gender issues, sexual orientation or any other sensitive topic?

If so, please continue reading to discover my own communication challenges when others judge me rather than listen to my opinions.  Yes, I have the communication strategies that I share with clients.  I am also caught off guard like so many of you may feel at times.

So, Joyce How Do You Protect Yourself?

It’s exciting to have conversations with others about “hot” issues of the day.  It’s not exciting when others want to push their ideas on you rather than hear what you have to say.

I’m used to certain people who want to be heard and push their ideas to others.  I now prepare myself to leave the table so I don’t fall into that trap.  I say, “Let’s agree to disagree and let’s change the topic.” If they continue pushing their agenda, I continue the conversation, “I enjoy discussing different values and opinions with others.  I am uncomfortable when others push their agenda because this becomes a judgemental conversation and not open dialogue.”  I will walk away if they still continue because life is too short to be judged by bullies or others who don’t know how to have a real conversation.

I knew I had to create a new poster when I saw this quote on respect and hope that the motivational quote below will help you during your own communication challenges.

Joyce Weiss | motivational quote | communication challenges

Stay Connected with Me

Add a comment to my blog on how you deal with people who push their agenda during conversations.  You will receive a response from me because I enjoy connecting with my readers! 🙂  You are always welcome to send me a private email HERE with concerns that you are experiencing at work.

Until next time,

Joyce Weiss, M.A., CSP
Career Coach and Communication Strategist

Have a great week.

Remember, YOU Get What YOU Tolerate!

PS Find your voice with Joyce!

 

Contact Joyce

Email: joyce@joyceweiss.com
Phone: 248-681-5831