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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Life Coaching Strategies to Help Your Employees Reduce Stress

Are you a leader who wants to learn life coaching strategies?
Do you want to find answers on how to balance your life better?
Are you ready to change one small behavior to reduce stress?

If so, these 3 life coaching strategies will help you get some great results.

After working for the same software company for several years, a young professional moved 90 minutes away from the organization.  Instead of dealing with a grueling commute, she proposed that she could come into the office just one day a week, and work the rest of the time from home. The company leadership agreed.  The woman found a mutually agreeable solution that allowed her to achieve work-life balance.

Unfortunately, many employees in the same situation wouldn’t feel comfortable making such a request.  With so many companies doing more with less, employees need to achieve a better work-life balance… and you can help your organization do just that.

Life Coaching Strategies #1:  Find Out What Coworkers and Employees Need

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Some workers might want a more flexible office schedule, a compressed workweek, job sharing options, or resources for child care or elder care. Others may want healthy workplace initiatives like on-site exercise classes and wellness lectures.

What can you do?

Create a work-life committee to survey people and find out their needs. Members can then recommend ways the organization might help employees achieve more balanced lives.

Life Coaching Strategies #2:  Relieving the Pressure of Overtime Demands

When demands become rigorous, everyone suffers.

What can you do?

Do something special for coworkers and employees – like providing a dessert, a dinner, or little thank you gestures. Suggest that dedicated people get an afternoon off… and everyone will be rewarded with a newly refreshed coworker.

Life Coaching Strategies #3:  Setting an Example

People who don’t take time for themselves feel more stressed, and consequently, become less productive at work.

What can you do?

Don’t begrudge people their personal time. Encourage others by modeling how important balance is in your life- when you leave at 5:00 p.m. to see your son’s soccer game, realize that you are an outstanding role model!

Concluding Thoughts about these 3 Life Coaching Strategies

Most of us are looking for ways to find more balance in our life.  I constantly look for life coaching strategies for my clients and myself! 🙂  We can lower our stress by changing only one behavior.  If you are a leader bring in speakers from a local health care facility to help your employees learn the newest strategies for lowering stress. There are many books, youtube videos, and classes on finding balance.  Cicero said, Where there is life, there is hope.

The challenge for all of us is finding a solution that fits our individual needs.  I will be sharing more articles and videos on finding balance and reducing stress because my loyal readers and clients keep on asking me to do so.

 I want to hear from you

Send me an email with your questions or comments on how you or your company use life coaching strategies to find balance. What challenges to you still experience?  What topics do you want me to cover in a future article?

Read more articles and listen to podcasts at our Life Coaching Strategies Knowledge Base

 

This is Joyce Weiss, Communications Strategist and Coach

Learn how my 30+ years of communication and leadership consulting and coaching experience can help your organization address life coaching strategies here.

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


 

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Secrets From a Career Coach to Gain More Control at Work and Home

As a Career Coach, several of my clients wanted me to help them identify how they can do more with less in a new way…to change their status quo. They described how they felt like gerbils constantly running on a wheel…going no where! After doing a couple of pilot programs, we discovered key questions that people enjoyed answering on how to change their routine.

This article is a description of one of my programs – The New Normal: Doing More with Less. I hope that the information will help you solve some of your own issues at work. Leaders and their employees are maxed out with new demands on resources. I challenge you to think about important changes so you can gain control of your hectic life! Creative thinking is a necessity to keep up with constant change and expectations. We all have the same 24 hours in our day. We need to figure out how to work as productively as possible and change the way we have done things in the past. You will learn strategies to keep up with the workload without burning out. I look hearing your comments and questions! 🙂

Career Coach Secret # 1: Balance – I’m stuck in high gear

  1. What boundaries do you set for yourself at work to achieve balance in your personal life?
  2. What boundaries do you need to set for yourself at work?
  3. What systems do you use to identify what is important to whom and when?
  4. How do you weed out or stop things that aren’t working and recharge with a new program alignment?

Career Coach Secret #2: Fun -“Look, Ma – no hands!” Give yourself permission to have fun

  1. What issues/barriers are hindering you from creating a positive work environment?
  2. How do you keep your staff, team, and YOU from burning out?
  3. What does your organization do to encourage life prioritization?

Career Coach Secret # 3: Strategies from Joyce Weiss

  1. Which questions above speak to your specific needs?
  2. Select only 2-3 questions and decide what action steps you need to take to gain more control in your life.
  3. Discuss your new ideas with someone who you trust and set mutual goals and times to reconnect.
  4. Feel free to send your ideas to me at Joyce@JoyceWeiss.com and I will send you a response.
  5. What strategies do you use to gain control balancing your personal life?

I want to hear from you.
What action steps will you take as a result of reading this article?
CLICK HERE to send me your questions about your own work life balance.

Interested in More Resources to Watch Your Career Grow?

Check out my new Communicate with Impact Self-Study Program Workbook. This workbook is a compilation of 30 years of experience as a Career Coach and Communication Strategist.
I created this powerful step-by-step self-guided workbook to specifically help the hundreds of business people like you, who continually contact me for expert communication advice on:

  • Improving personal work relationships
  • Management’s interaction with workflows
  • Leadership’s ability to be clear and transparent abut their goals
  • Replacing stress points they face every day with positive outcomes.
    Career Coaching the Communicate with Impact Self-Study Program WorkbookWe just launched this powerful workbook and you will be among the first to review the content and possibly order it. CLICK HERE to learn how you can take a huge leap this year in your career. It’s a great way to learn the newest strategies very fast without having to go anywhere. You can learn at your own pace from anywhere.

Until next time,

This is Joyce Weiss, Communication Strategist and Career Coach

You can start tackling tough conversations with bullies, different generations, and even narcissists once you learn the powerful strategies. I will do whatever it takes to help you improve your quality of life.

Feel free to call me (800.713.1926) concerning your own team/executive retreats, workshops, and on line career and life coaching.

Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!

See YOU Next Week.

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Leaders, Are You A Work Life Balance Hero?

Work life balance is a frustration that I hear from all levels of an organization.  Are you a manager or owner who wants to help your team care for the seemingly easy tasks of home that still need to be managed either during or after work?

If so, this article will provide simple techniques you can use to help your employees feel less stressed at work.

Work Life Balance Frustrations

Home and personal lives do overlap our professional lives.  It is too difficult to separate the two.
Some typical comments that I hear in my workshops are the following:

If I work 110% I get good results.  If I work a little harder, I’ll get even more out of it.  I wonder why I’m always stressed. I told myself that once I did everything on my to do list…I will finally do what I really enjoy!

We will never enjoy the benefits of time affluence as long as success is defined who works the longest hours or sleeps the least.  I’ve seen burned out employees who don’t have the nerve to talk to their leaders.  They don’t want to sound like complainers.  I challenge them to plan the conversation so that their boss understands the unrealistic demands that they face daily.  Of course, leaders may face the same burn out or stress by their leaders!

What can managers do to help employees with their work life balance?

  • Include work life balance in the mission statement
  • Bring in on site grocery orders or cleaners to help save time for their team
  • Discuss possible solutions with the team on how goals can still be reached while changing the process
  • Hire professionals to speak on care giving or parenting
  • Be a good model and go home on time and strongly encourage your team to follow your lead
  • Bring in experts to help improve the working condition of the team

So Joyce, what else can you add on achieving work life balance?

It’s a pipe dream to think that we can achieve total work life balance.  BUT we can always make improvements to reduce our stress.  I recently heard an international panel discuss how they achieve balance.

  • Start with the end in mind such as taking care of myself and my family
  • Create ground rules such as exercising daily
  • Don’t talk about work at home
  • All devices are not allowed at the dinner table
    These ideas work when you put them to use.  Mangers need to remind their team that improving balance will help them enjoy work more and improve productivity.  They need to have important conversations with their team in order to come up with solutions to burn out.

I want to hear from you
CLICK HERE to comment on what your leadership has done to help with your work life balance?  How have you handled burnout?

CLICK HERE to learn how Joyce can transform your life and teach you work-life balance through her personal life coaching.

Until next time,

This is Joyce Weiss, Communication Strategist and Coach

I share powerful techniques on tackling tough conversations to build employee engagement, accountability, and improve my client’s quality of life.

Feel free to call me (800.713.1926) concerning your own team/executive retreats, workshops, and on line professional growth coaching.

Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!

See YOU Next Week.

CLICK HERE to read another article of mine on balance

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A Personal Goal of Mine

A personal goal of mine is work life balance.  A mantra that I share with my clients is “Making time for yourself is not a luxury…it’s a necessity.”

I live by this motto and share it anytime I can with my clients.  Most people tell me that they know how to give their time at home and work but don’t know how to take time for themselves.  I am seeing this pattern more and more and this is why client’s still bring me in to present my program, Take the Ride of Your Life;  Shift Gears for More Balance, Growth and Joy.  The next few blog posts will contain stories and strategies that I share during the program.

Personal Goal Strategy 1:  A new definition of being out of control

Everyone is busy these days.  They are time deprived and I created a new word:  Busy-Aholics. The new work reality is that everyone is busy.  The trap is that being busy can add up to lot’s of activity that isn’t that productive.

Here’s an action step for you:  Listen to how you describe your day to others.  Are you describing all of your meetings that you had during the day?  We create a lot of internal stress for ourselves when we repeatedly listen to our hectic schedules.  

Personal Goal Strategy 2:  Set personal boundaries

We had boundaries when we were children (come home at a certain time, ride your bike ONLY on the sidewalk (this is if you lived in a city with sidewalks 🙂 ).  A funny thing happens when we grow up.  We forget to set personal boundaries for ourselves.  If you don’t take care of yourself…who will?  Remember, Taking time for yourself is NOT a luxury…it’s a necessity.  Make sure YOU are part of the balance equation.

Here’s an action step for you:  Set one personal goal and boundary for yourself that you can use both at work and home.  Feel free to send your action step to me and I will respond as an accountability coach.

I will share stress and humor strategies in the next couple of blogs.

I want to hear from you!
CLICK HERE to send me your challenges with feeling out of control or setting personal boundaries. Or send me strategies that you use to feel more in control.

Until next time,

This is Joyce Weiss, Communication Strategist and Coach

I share powerful techniques on tackling tough conversations to build employee engagement, accountability, and improve my client’s quality of life.

Feel free to call me (800.713.1926) concerning your own team/executive retreats, workshops, and on line professional growth coaching.

CLICK HERE to learn how Joyce can transform your life and teach you work-life balance through her personal life coaching.

Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!

ride bookSee YOU Next Week.

PS CLICK HERE to order your copy of my book, Take the Ride of Your Life.  Let me know what name you would like me to personalize in the autograph. I will also include 3 booklets on living your life to the fullest since your are loyal readers of Communicate with Impact.

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How to Overcome Overwhelmed: A Video by Terry Brock

conflict frustrated lady putting paper to her headI’m thrilled to share a video about How to Overcome Overwhelmed by my colleague and friend, Terry Brock.  He was honored to speak during a Tedx event organized by a local community. Terry’s approach to his topics are down to earth, entertaining, and easy to grasp. 

Who is Terry Brock?
Terry is a marketing and communication expert who shares ideas on how to use technology to build business relationships. He helps individuals and organizations realize potential they didn’t know existed.

Terry Brock is a columnist for Business Journals (43 papers across America), a blogger, and a marketing coach. He has worked with clients like AT&T as Editor in Chief for their award-winning industry blog and with Skype as their Chief Enterprise Blogger.

Here is Terry’s message in the video that you will find below
1.  You are in control
2.  Have the right technology and use it to learn and connect with others
3.  Move your thinking from “No Way” to “Not Yet!”

View Terry Brock’s video HERE

So Joyce, what do you think?

Terry’s message says it all.  Once we learn that we are in control things calm down.  We tend to blame others or the circumstances. Asking ourselves…why not?…helps us stop the blame game and look for action and solutions.  Technology is overwhelming for some people.  They try to learn too many new things at once and they end of giving up the process.  Once we learn how to change “No Way” to “Not Yet” we gain control and give ourselves time to learn new and exciting technologies.  Prioritizing which new strategies to learn also helps.  I’m still exploring all the benefits of using LinkedIn.  I have taken classes, read books and it’s exciting to decide which aspects I want to explore…not everything…just the ones that fit for now.

What About You?

  • What parts of Terry’s message speak to you?
  • When did you change something so you overcame overwhelmed?

I want to hear from you!

CLICK HERE to send me your questions or concerns.

Find out more about Terry Brock HERE

Terry is my coach and has helped me learn the latest on line strategies to let the world know about my services.  He has helped me understand that video is key to on line success.  Send him an email at Terry@TerryBrock.com to find out how he can help your business grow. He is not only a master at what he does…he also cares about his clients.  

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Until next time,

This is Joyce Weiss, Communication Strategist

I help people become top level leaders who get GREAT results.
How do I do this?
I teach them to tackle the tough conversations with bullies and negative people to build employee engagement, accountability, and rock star performance…
The Result? My clients resolve their conflict and they get a better night’s sleep!

Feel free to call me (800.713.1926) concerning your own team/executive retreats, workshops, on line professional growth coaching, and keynote speeches.

Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!

 

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