Stephanie Goddard
Work Stress Expert
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Stephanie Goddard Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Work Stress, Communication Skills, Workplace Interpersonal Skills, Career Purpose, Spirituality in the Workplace
- Best Sellers
- 101 Ways to Have a Great Day @ Work and 101 Ways to Love Your Job
- Career Focus
- Author, Trainer, Motivational Speaker, Coach
- Affiliation
- American Management Association, ASTD, Certified MBTI, Seven Habits, DDI
From the book jacket '101 Ways to Love Your Job'
Stephanie Goddard (Davidson) is considered a subject matter expert in workplace communications and specializes in leadership and interpersonal skills training. Her clients include many Fortune 500 companies as well as non-profit and public sector employers.
Frequently appearing as a guest on radio programs and published in numerous articles on workplace communications, Stephanie is the author of '101 Ways to Have a Great Day at Work'
She is also a nationally-certified trainer in:
-The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People®
-Frankli
Covey’s Project Management®
-"The Skilled Facilitator"® by Schwartz
-Covey’s “First Things First” Time Management®
-FIRO® Element B® ABLE® Communication Preference Wheel®
-Dynamic Dimensions International (DDI) modules
-Master certification in Achieve Global’s® leadership programs
-Ridge’s "People Skills"®
-Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: MBTI®
Stephanie lives in Raleigh, NC where she runs workshops and provides coaching to her local government's employees including EMS personnel, social workers, law enforcement officers, rescue workers, engineers and city planners. She is also an instructor with the American Management Association.
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Dealing with Difficult People in the Workplace
I know you’ve selected this article, because you want a 1-2-3 step formula for dealing with the jerk down the hall or in the next cube to make them permanently go away and possibly even like you for it. And you know it doesn’t exist, so don’t be irritated with me. I do have the solution, but it’s going to be less fun than you thought. You can opt for FUN and back space and find another article on the Internet, or you can fix this crappy situation right now. Right on. You’re still here. Okay. Here’s how this works: 1.
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#71 of 101 Ways to Love Your Job: Being Right---What Price Do You Pay?
Recently I had the opportunity to speak with several employees about their views on conflict, dealing with difficult people, and how to get things done when others aren't cooperating. You know--the usual stuff at work that we all cite as some of the most common stressors. I was surprised by how many people basically said, "They are wrong and I am right and I will continue to remind them of that until they do what they need to do." Now, these weren't the exact words, of course. These words are a summary of several 20-30 minutes conversations, but that says it in a nutshell.
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Pride and Prejudice: The Work Stress Combo Plan!
“To know the true reality of yourself, nyou must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, nbut also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.” It has been said, "To be objective, we must first admit we are subjective." Breaking down this quote to understand it further, ...
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The 'Disease To Please' : Self-Created Stress
Are you trying to fix people? One of the main stressors in our lives is "the disease to please." This is a condition where we try to fix other people's problems, make them feel better, let them use us as a free therapist and generally consider their needs over our own. This “disease” is in our ...
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Friends At Work : Life's Natural Stress Reducers
Developing a friendship with a co-worker who has a work ethic you admire and someone who can "keep it zipped" is a must-have. No matter how great your significant other, friend, orneighbor is at solving problems or listening to your work conce s, they are not your best option. Why? BECAUSE ...
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The Creation (and Destruction) of Your Stressful Story
“People want you to be happy. Don’t keep serving them your pain!” Rumi You may have noticed that the articles I write are not the usual advice offered under the heading “self-help.” The term “self-help” has become, in general, a collection of works that often seem to keep people stuck in ...
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How to Get Rid of a Negative Emotion
What we resist, persists. As humans, we naturally want to avoid pain, and that includes our feelings. Trying to push the emotions away, or using substances like food or alcohol, work for a little while. Then the emotion is worse than ever. While understandable, this simply doesn't work. Instead, I advise you to purposely face the emotion, lean into it, and really get to know it. Follow the six steps below. And like magic, it's gone. rn#1. Close your eyes and get as physically comfortable as possible.
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Thoughts Become Things: Does This Mean You Are What You Think?
Do you want to know why you feel badly most of the time? I've done the reading. I've done the work. I KNOW what makes you (and me) feel stress, discomfort, anxiety, nervous, upset, angry, irritated...call it what you want. Bottom line: You're not happy. You can treat your unhappiness like a speck of dust that's on the projector screen in front of you. Every time the picture changes, the speck of dust is now on something else, something different. Or...you can direct your attention to where the speck of dust actually resides: on the camera lens.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Stephanie Goddard
I believe that any unhappiness is a product of believing your thoughts. And when your thoughts are stressful or negative, you have a false idea in consciousness. This isn't to say you are wrong or uninformed...not at all. You would be normal. But normal isn't happy. And getting happy is what we are all up to! So my life work is to find every tool I can to make us realize that we can be happy, right here and right now, no matter what our exte al circumstances may be.
When I live this way, I am happy. When I don't, I am unhappy. Everything I have learned, I share on my website, in my articles, through my books and workshops. If you have something that has changed your life for the better, let me know. I will add this information to one of the many vehicles of communicatio I use in my work.
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Stephanie@Work-Stress-Solutions.com or become a fan of Work Stress Solutions on Facebook.
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I've written many on workplace-stress and conflict. These are available to print, copy, and share or even to use in your newsletters or websites (I only ask that you "pay it forward" with a courtesy link or website URL reference back to http://www.work-stress-solutions.com).
My site also offers free videos, worksheets, ebooks, quotes and other resources to deal with stressful thinking.