Speak Your Mind Unapologetically

How do you gracefully accept bad gifts, gifts that make you feel obligated to give back, or gifts you enjoy? When you don't accept gifts gracefully, you kill the joy the gift giver has in sharing the gift with you and you send the message "don't buy me gifts again." In this episode you'll discover:

✔️Top mistakes people make when receiving gifts that cause gift givers to quit gift giving

✔️How to receive gifts graciously

✔️5 examples of what to say to receive gifts politely (even if you don't like the gift).

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3 Stress Lowering Holiday Conversations You Need To Prepare For: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/3-stress-lowering-holiday-conversations-you-need-to-prepare-for

Personal Year In Review Reflection Exercise: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/2021-personal-year-in-review-reflection-exercise

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Most Americans feel stressed during the holidays, because of the pressures of gift exchanging, challenges of staying on diet, lack of time and money, unpleasant conversations. Could speaking your mind unapologetically be the solution to all that holiday stress? In this episode you'll discover how to:

✔️ Talk about stopping exchanging gifts with family and friends.

✔️ Easily decline eating too much food.

✔️ Escape unpleasant holiday conversations.

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15 Assertive Rights That You Need To Protect: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/15-assertive-rights-that-you-need-to-protect

Confidently Say No In A Respectful Way (In 7 Easy Steps): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/confidently-say-no-in-a-respectful-way-in-7-easy-steps

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Is conflict and confrontation bad? Should we try to avoid it? In this episode, you'll discover why we need to embrace conflict and confrontation, and:

✔️10 Conflict And Confrontation Myths Debunked

MYTH 1 - Conflict & confrontation are bad.

MYTH 2 - Conflict is caused by difficult, angry, trouble-making people.

MYTH 3 - Conflict means there's a problem in the relationship.

MYTH 4 - Time will fix problems without the need for confrontation.

MYTH 5 - Confrontation is painful and stressful.

MYTH 6 - Kind people don't confront others.

MYTH 7 - Confrontation will hurt my relationships.

MYTH 8 - I should only speak up if I have something nice to say.

MYTH 9 - No conflict means peace.

MYTH 10 - You shouldn't confront higher ups.

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How To Get What You Want By Focusing On The Other Person's Needs (With Jay Sullivan): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-get-what-you-want-by-focusing-on-the-other-persons-needs-with-jay-sullivan

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There are communication best practices to communicate effectively, but you can apply them with your unique personality. When you find your authentic communication personality, you'll feel more comfortable in your communication. In this episode, you'll discover:

✔️ How to use the 4 phases of experiential learning to find your communication personality.

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How can you find courage to speak up? In this episode you'll find out how these 4 people find the courage to speak up at work (there were previous guests on the podcast).

Other episodes to boost your courage to speak up

✔️12 Questions To Know When To Ignore Criticism and Judgment

https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/12-questions-to-know-when-to-not-take-judgment-seriously

✔️Top Hack To Stop Worrying About What People Think Of You

https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/top-hack-to-stop-worrying-about-what-people-think-of-you

✔️8 Ways To Be more Confident With Perspective Taking

https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/8-ways-to-be-more-confident-with-perspective-taking

✔️6 Conflict Myths: Lies Teachers Like To Tell About Confrontation

https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/029-6-conflict-myths-lies-teachers-like-to-tell-about-confrontation

✔️5 Ways To Convince Yourself To Speak Up Even If You Are Fearful

https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/8-ways-to-convince-yourself-to-speak-up-even-if-you-are-fearful

✔️You Don't Have To Be Aggressive To Get Ahead

https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/you-dont-have-to-be-aggressive-to-get-ahead

✔️How To Find The Courage To Ask For What You Want Even If It Is Unreasonable

https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/the-most-selfish-and-unreasonable-request-ive-ever-made-to-my-boss

✔️4 Top Speaking Up Fears Debunked

https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/4-top-speaking-up-fears-debunked

✔️10 Secrets to Heart-Centered Assertive Communication

https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/10-secrets-to-heart-centered-assertive-communication

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Different job levels such as individual contributor, entry level manager, mid manager, and executive, require different assertiveness skills. In this episode, you'll discover what those skills are.

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Our attitude towards speaking up can make a huge difference in our work, career, and lives. In this episode, you'll discover what those key differences are so that you can see the possibilities and envision the new life when you embrace speaking up.

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Can you serve yourself by serving others? Yes. If you're the kind of person that likes to serve other people's needs but find it hard to speak up for your own needs, you'll be delighted to know that you can use those skills of serving others for your own benefit if done in the right way. In this episode, Jay Sullivan, Partner, Exec|Comm who helps people improve their effectiveness at work and beyond by honing their communication skills, shares:

✔️ 4 questions that helps you eliminate assumptions about others.

✔️ Why saying "if you have any questions, let me know" isn't helpful and what to say instead.

✔️ 3 phases to get greater engagement from a group.

✔️ An important mindset to deal with difficult people.

✔️ Why focusing on the other person helps you get what you want.

✔️ How to stop overthinking in meetings and self-promoting.

✔️ A single shift to self-promote without being self-promotional.

✔️ How to not get anxious when speaking in front of others.

✔️ How to be vulnerable and definitive when talking to others.

About Jay Sullivan

Book "Simply Said: Communicating Better at Work and Beyond): https://www.exec-comm.com/product/simply-said/

Exec-Comm Public Programs: https://www.exec-comm.com/solutions_workshops/

Jay's Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaysullivan62/

Exec-Comm Linkedin Profile: www.linkedin.com/company/execcomm/

Exec-Comm Facebook Profile: www.facebook.com/ExecComm

Jay Sullivan is the former Managing Partner at Exec|Comm, and currently leads the firm's Law Firm Group. He is an award- winning author and columnist, and was an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law Center and Fordham University School of Law. His book, Simply Said: Communicating Better at Work and Beyond, was released by John Wiley & Sons in 2016, and has since been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Russian. As a contributing writer for Forbes.com, Jay brings relevant and timely advice on enhancing one's communication skills to the business community.

Jay joined Exec|Comm after nine years as a practicing attorney. He received his J.D. from Fordham University in 1989. That year, Jay was named among the first class of Skadden Fellows by the Skadden Foundation. For two years he acted as in-house legal counsel at Covenant House, a crisis shelter for runaway and homeless teenagers. He then practiced corporate law for seven years on behalf of Lloyds of London.

After graduating from Boston College in 1984, Jay spent two years in the Jesuit International Volunteer Corps teaching English. His book about that experience, Raising Gentle Men: Lives at the Orphanage Edge, was named the 2014 Best Book by a Small Publisher by the Catholic Press Association. Jay sits on the Board of Trustees of Salve Regina University. He and his wife, Mary, live in Pleasantville, New York, where they raised their four children. Jay plays squash weekly (and weakly, but with great enthusiasm).

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How do you get people to want to support you and see you succeed at work? How do you shamelessly self-promote? In this episode, Vanitha Ponnarasi, Senior Director of Engineering at BuildASign.com, shares:

✔️ How to get sponsors and mentors to adopt you.

✔️ The secret ingredient that makes people really want to help when ask for help.

✔️ How to be more decisive.

✔️ An important mindset shift to cope with stress of worrying to much about the other person's feelings.

✔️ How to create the habit of self-promotion.

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