How to Use Workplace Stress to Create Career Success and Build Healthy Lifelong Habits

How to Use Workplace Stress to Create Career Success and Build Healthy Lifelong Habits

Stress and difficult people are everywhere, and if you allow them to suck your time and energy to the point of distraction, they inhibit your productivity, sap your confidence and erode your well- being. To add to your burden, with your energy exhausted, life’s joys are dampened, diminishing what you bring to family and friends. 

The good news is that learning to overcome such stress offers you golden opportunities to build life-long habits that will improve your relationships and help you focus on creating success.

I've helped so many people successfully manage a rough professional experience that I know how stress and difficult people at work can drag down your whole life. 

Below are my go-to coaching tools for people just like you to manage stress, deal with difficult people and increase your productivity at the same time. This approach will help you get into a positive headspace so you're more present to the joys and more effective at managing your challenges at work and at home. 

It’s up to you whether your workplace challenges get you stuck in a crisis or give you the strength to put them behind you once and for all. 

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Introduction

  • A Message from Dana
  • PDF Download

Building Your Personal Brand

  • What is a Personal Brand?
  • Why invest in Your Personal Brand?
  • MISTAKE: Networking
  • TIP: Build Your Network into a Business Asset [Susan's Story]
  • MISTAKE: LinkedIn
  • Tip: Evaluate Your Success by the Opportunities it Creates for You
  • MISTAKE: Competing with your employer's brand
  • TIP: Align with Your Employers Brand [Amy's Story]
  • MISTAKE: Career-only Goals
  • TIP: Blend Your Personal Brand/Career Goals with Your Life Goals
  • MISTAKE: Your Comfort Zone
  • TIP: Dance Strategically in Your Stretch Zone
  • How Ali's Personal Brand Accidently Got Him His Dream Job
  • Personal Brand Checklist. [PDF]
  • Personal Brand Coaching Webinar

Leading & Managing Teams

  • Why Everyone Should You Become a Transformational Leader
  • 3 Keys to Transformational Leadership Success
  • MISTAKE: Anxiety
  • TIP: Detrigger Your Emotions
  • MISTAKE: You're Too Good
  • TIP: Engage Your Team [Joe's Story]
  • MISTAKE: Stop Looking to Role Models
  • #3 TIP: Challenge Yourself
  • MISTAKE: So Serious...
  • TIP: Humor & Gratitude
  • MISTAKE: The Wrong Stretch Zone
  • TIP: Find The Right Edge
  • Case Study: How Simon Snatched Victory from the Jaws of Overwhelm
  • How to Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Others
  • Transformational Leadership Guide [PDF]

Managing Stress & Difficult People

  • How to Use Workplace Stress to Create Career Success and Build Healthy Lifelong Habits
  • 3 Keys to Dealing with Stress & Difficult People at Work
  • Common Mistakes when Managing Stress and Difficult People
  • MISTAKE: “Venting” and Complaining When You Have the Right to
  • TIP: Detrigger – Early and Often
  • MISTAKE: Locking in Your Bad Habits
  • TIP: Reframe Success - Live
  • MISTAKE: Letting Your Overwhelm Overpower You
  • TIP: Revv Up Your "Right Brain"
  • MISTAKE: Getting Dragged Down
  • TIP: Let Difficult People Be
  • MISTAKE: Believing You Can Tough it Out
  • TIP: Manage Forever with Today
  • Pat's Trip From the Frying Pan into the Fire
  • Career-Life Balance Checklist [PDF]

Career Planning

  • Why Do Career Planning?
  • 3 Keys to Career Planning & Work-Life Success
  • Common Mistakes & Tips for Career Planning
  • #1 MISTAKE: Not Staying Competitive
  • TIP: Always Be Looking
  • MISTAKE: Overestimating Your Marketability
  • TIP: Job vs. Career
  • MISTAKE: Ignoring the Hidden Job Market
  • TIP: Focus on Exactly What You Want
  • MISTAKE: Under-Aspiring
  • TIP: Directed Dreaming
  • MISTAKE: Ignoring LinkedIn
  • TIP: See Your Next Job
  • Career Planning Checklist
  • What Cindy Learned the Hard Way

Looking for New Opportunities

  • How To Get Your Dream Job
  • Common Mistakes & Tips for Job Search
  • MISTAKE: Looking at Job Boards
  • TIP: Go for what you want
  • MISTAKE: Finding What You Don't Want
  • TIP: Don't Look Backwards
  • MISTAKE: You Updated Your Resume
  • TIP: Art & Science
  • MISTAKE: Feeling Desperate
  • TIP: Make a Counter Offer (or Just Say No)
  • MISTAKE: Paying the Bills vs. Being Happy
  • TIP: Believe in “both/and”
  • Sammi's Job Search Lesson
  • TIP: To get your dream job, you have to dream
  • How to Use Online Job Sites
  • Top 50 Job Sites InPower

Interviewing & Negotiation with the Boss

  • How to Interview for a Job & Negotiate Your Job Offer
  • 3 Keys to Ensuring Your Confidence in Interviews & Offer Negotiations
  • Keys to Interviewing Success
  • #1 MISTAKE: Expecting a Competent Interviewer
  • TIP: Walk in With One Piece of Paper
  • MISTAKE: Not Talking About Money
  • TIP: When to Talk About Money
  • MISTAKE: Not Making a Counter Offer
  • TIP: Do Your Homework--and Ask
  • Offer Negotiations Advice From Liesel
  • Interview & Offer Checklist [PDF]

Getting the Help You Need

  • Executive Coaching FAQs