Joyce Weiss

Joyce Weiss: Program Outlines

Communicate with Impact...Be Direct with Respect®
Are co-workers stealing your time by destroying your concentration and preventing you from accomplishing your goals?
Is your work environment filled with negative morale busters, workplace bullies, and employees who constantly zap your creative energy?
Are clients expecting you to do the impossible?

Welcome to Be Direct with Respect®, the program participants choose to gain control of their day, their career and their company. Employees who are honest and accountable get the results they deserve.

The only way to make permanent, positive changes in your workforce environment is to provide solutions that change how you feel about your co-workers and your team.

Be Direct with Respect® is an innovative process of communicating for those who are used to holding things inside. Once you implement Be Direct with Respect®, you'll find that being direct and truthful will make you self-confident and earn you the respect you deserve. Even more important, as the concept of Be Direct with Respect® takes hold in your team, you will communicate better and build stronger relationships with co-workers and customers alike.

Synergize Your Team: Ideas to Boost Morale
One of the biggest challenges is how to keep star employees feeling engaged at work. In today's ever changing workplace, team work is more than a nicety; it's a necessity. By its very nature team work creates synergy. There's just one hitch-it won't happen all by itself. Remove your team' roadblocks so they can access their creative power. Learn how to excel through cooperation. Discover new ways on how to communicate with all generations in the workplace

Participants will learn how to:

• Discover a second pair of eyes and look for opportunity
• Change the team's status quo in order to grow
• Boost morale by confronting negativity and workplace bullies
• Find easy ways to add more fun at work
• Lighten up team meetings with workplace games
• Listen to the input and use ideas from all employees
• Learn how to communicate better by understanding different conflict styles

This program is designed for leaders and team members who want to play a role in boosting the team morale. This is perfect for team members who are not leaders and want to grow professionally. Leaders will receive new and bold ideas to put to use immediately.

Take the Ride of Your Life!
Shift Gears for More Balance and Growth
Are you...

• Going in circles?
• Struggling up hill?
• Wobbling out of balance?
• Tired of listening to grumpy people?
• Allowing others to steal valuable time from your day?

Joyce Weiss will take her audience on a journey to gain more control and have more fun at work and home. Discover the best practices that other companies use to help employees feel balance in their life. Be prepared to laugh, learn, and recharge!

• Balance: I'm Stuck in High Gear
• Stress: Go from Fear to In Gear
• Fun: "Look Ma - No Hands!"
• Creativity: Yes! There is a Second Right Answer

Joyce will share her articles on stress and attendees will learn new facts about stress and work life balance.

The New Normal: Doing More with Less
Leaders and their employees are maxed out with new demands on resources. Joyce Weiss challenges her audience to think about the way organizations balance the needs of clients with their mission. 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. Joyce will share tips to keep up with the workload without burning out. Attendees will learn new facts about stress. The will experience stress relief exercises to help improve their working condition.

The program will include time to divide into groups and discuss the following questions:

Balance: I'm stuck in high gear
• What boundaries do you set for yourself at work to achieve life prioritization?
• What boundaries do you need to set for yourself at work?
• What systems do you use to identify what is important to whom and when?
• How do you weed out or stop things that aren't working and recharge with a new program alignment?

Fun: "Look, Ma - no hands!" Give yourself permission to have fun

• What issues/barriers are hindering you from creating a positive work environment?
• How do you keep your staff and YOU from burning out
• What does your organization do to encourage life prioritization?
• What do you do to help keep morale up during these challenging times?

Joyce will interview several key people and will share her research with the group. This is a powerful program that will empower participants to get control back by listening to how their colleagues deal with these important issues.

Team Survival
This high energy simulation will show participants their team strengths and weaknesses in a positive environment.

This powerful program will have participants talk about the results long after the session is over. Your team will be strengthened through the individual effectiveness of its members.

The following topics will be covered:

• Awareness of interpersonal factors in team work
• How to deal with bullying in the workplace
• Team versus individual decision making
• Feedback on team performance
• Consensus building
• How to include quiet team members
• How to control team members who take over meetings
• The importance of interpersonal skills:
  • Active listening
  • Differing and confronting
  • Encouraging others to be part of the team
  
  
• How rational skills play an important part of the team
  • Analyzing the situation
  • Setting objectives
  • Developing alternatives

Understanding Yourself and Others
This program takes participants on a professional and personal development journey. Each person will take a short on-line assessment before the session. Joyce will bring the results to the program. Participants will learn about their strengths and areas of improvement about themselves and their team members. First they will divide into groups with others who share similar conflict styles. They will also be divided into teams with differing styles in order to discover how diversity enhances strong teams.

The following topics will be discussed in this important - high energy program:

• Understanding individual behavior
• How to help people work together more effectively
• Increasing the appreciation of different work styles
• Communicating successfully to different behavioral styles
• How to resolve conflict in the workplace
• How work habits are influenced by group dynamics
• Insights on team members
• How to set goals that really work
• How strengths can be over used
• How others deal with the team when under pressure

SHIFT HAPPENS: Understanding the New Work Realities During Change
Career development is necessary to insure the growth of any organization. It is the responsibility of everyone to continuously become the best in his or her field. The rules have changed in today's workplace. Productive employees need to develop professionally in order to change the status quo - which is the kiss of death in any company. Competition is brutal. The new work reality is for everyone to manage his or her career.

The following topics will be covered in this important program.

• The necessity of change even when things are going well
• The psychological comfort of the status quo which is the kiss of death
• Accept ambiguity and uncertainty
• Behave like you are in business for yourself
• The necessity of continuous learning
• Look for opportunities and resources inside the company
• Expect your employer to expect more from you
• Make sure you contribute more than you cost
• Hold yourself accountable for outcomes
• Constantly add value to the organization
• Manage your own morale

Bold Solutions to Boost the Bottom Line®
Change Your Thinking - Change Your Opportunities
At this program you will learn techniques to expand your network client base and positively affect your bottom line.

This program contains the best practices from companies of excellence. Joyce has researched businesses in Michigan that constantly change to keep ahead of their competition and fit the needs of their customers. She will discuss how others are refusing to give in to wallowing and negativity at their meetings. Participants will experience numerous exercises to help them find solutions to their own business challenges. Come prepared to learn, laugh, and recharge!

Participants will discuss the following key points:

• Finding opportunity during change. Don't let the recession roll you over. Embrace change and grow business!
• Discover Creativity Gems on how to look for the 2nd right answer during challenging times.
• How to Market UP-during a downturn without blowing your budget. Capture your market share from those who cut ad budgets.
• Smart networking tips – The importance of creating partnerships, seeing collaboration, and experiencing growth from shared objectives and cost.
• How asking for referrals is key in doing business today.

Other Suggested Speaking Topics

Innovative Change Strategies to Reduce Conflict in the Workplace

• Status Quo is the kiss of death
• Change how we run our business internally
• Learn new work realities to keep star employees from leaving
• Change how we reach customers

Creativity Ideas to Put to Use at Work

• Look at the ordinary and make it extra ordinary
• Yes! There is another right answer exercise

Marketing Strategies

• Customers have to be crazy not to do business with you
• How to differentiate yourself
• Discuss how marketing campaigns have changed

Networking Savvy

• Creating partnerships
• Finding groups that meet your needs
• New ideas on how to be a top notch networker

Sales

• The personal touch
• Relationship selling
• Adjust to 4 sales styles
• Dealing with and overcoming rejection