Confidence, Communications, Conflict, Change, Gender Issues, Personal Finance and Sabotage in the Workplace are topics that Dr. Judith Briles presents from her thirty years of business and entrepreneurial experiences. She is an award winning author of twenty plus books, and an international motivational speaker who delivers her programs with content and humor. Recognized as an expert on workplace issues and their solutions, she concentrates on common sense strategies that are adaptable in both personal and business environments.

"Everything was AWESOME!!!! Lots and lots of positive feedback!!!!! My Directors are really talking!!!!! They loved the Script!!!!! Thanks for a GREAT day! 
Linda Brown Unity Health Center, OK
 

Stabotage™! How to Deal with the Pit Bulls, Skunks, Snakes, Scorpions & Slugs in the Health Care Workplace is coming !!!! Available this summer, you can pre-order your copy and save over 30% --includes shipping. Order Now! Are Staboteurs™ in Your Midst? • Are there bullies in your workplace? • Do you have to deal with Pit Bulls with lipstick? • Has anyone intentionally undermined you? • Does your workplace keep the disrupters? • Have you ever thought about quitting? Every workplace has them—the pit bulls that hide behind lipstick and designer clothes; snakes who flick their abrasive tongues and voice at any and all; the scorpions who sting with a slap of their heavy backhand; the skunks that seem innocent until you get in their space; and the slugs ... those who are “just there” and breathing, barely. Stabotage!™ How to Deal with the Pit Bulls, Skunks, Snakes, Scorpions & Slugs in the Health Care Workplace reveals how to effectively deal with the bad girls and boys that inhabit every environment … be it one you get paid to be in or one you volunteer your time for. Workplace pioneer Dr. Judith Briles has included her revised CarefrontingScript™ dialogue, updates on the latest in communication techniques in dealing with conflict and toxic behavior and the ins and outs of determining a workplace’s true culture.   “I resigned from nursing three years ago.  I couldn’t take the attacks and abusive behavior any longer.  Management did nothing.  Their blindness caused a lot of good nurses to leave.”  Survey Respondent #82 Stabotage! is the sister book to Zapping Conflict in the Health Care Workplace.   Order you pre-publication copy of Stabotage! for $29 today (the price increases to $29 on June 1st). Or ... Order both Stabotage! & Zapping Conflict for $60 + shipping.

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Judith's Take ...
Lose the Losers and Keep the Keepers

Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint the breaking point when you decide that enough is enough. Whether you’ve been overlooked for a promotion, put down by a coworker or manager or work in a toxic workplace, you’ve decided that you are out of there.

The excuse you give, and it is usually an excuse and not the real reason, is that you want to work closer to home, need more family time or have a better opportunity. Not that all of those are reasonable—they are rarely the core reason why you depart.   Read on ...

2008 Movie Reviews Movie Review Archive

Red-ink Behavior
How to spot it, and stop it from staining your bottom line 
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Picture this: Brenda has been late to work at least once a week for the past six months; Patricia knows more about the customers she works with than anyone could imagine, gleaning the information in chatty phone calls with them; Dennis doesn’t responded to any issue until it moves into chaos; Caroline habitually withholds information from her co-workers; Martha is cryptic in her communications, leaving her co-workers and managers to “guess” what she really means; Tim hates to lose control of anything — he lays “traps” for his staff by giving them inadequate information, thus requiring him to ride to the rescue when failure is imminent; Tom waits until the last minute to do any project, then gets others to drop whatever they are doing to assist him; and Bertha is just cynical about every new idea that is presented at a staff meeting.

Does any of this sound familiar? Welcome to “red-ink behavior” …

"We received overwhelmingly positive response to Judith's presentation, and talk about the "unwritten rules" continues in several departments this week.   We will use the feedback generated by her presentation to develop action plans around our customer service initiative  being implemented this fall.

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