Joan Curtis
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Say It Just Right Master Sales Communicator Expert
Joan Curtis Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Communication, Coaching, Leadership, Social Media
- Best Sellers
- Six books; I'm waiting on the best seller!
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Business Owner, Coach, Fiction Writer
- Affiliation
- Certified by Center for Creative Leadership for 360's and Licensed by Get Client's Now for facilitation
Say It Just Right Communication Master. My Say It Just Right approach helps people evaluate their challenges and then guides them to successful communication.
FOCUS: High Performance Communication. Say It Just Right the first time! Handle all kinds of communication situations, including those sticky situations we face every day.
What I Bring to You:
Executive Coaching that produces high performance through collaborative communication using 360's. Certified by the Center for Creative Leadership
Coaching to excellence by taking people to new heights at work and at home
Reduced hiring missteps using Strategic Interviewing and the proprietary POINT selection process
High energy workshops and teleworkshops that teach the proprietary Say It Just Right (SIJR) Communication Model
Efficient professional development by teleseminars and virtual groups, Speak Up for Success and Get Clients Now.
20 years experience as a communication consultant in the workplace
Currently fiction writer of mystery suspense books. Two published and one under contract
Author:
- Hire Smart and Keep 'em released by Praeger Press (2012)
- e-Murderer released by MuseItUp Publishing (2015)
- The Clock Strikes Midnight released by MuseItUp Publishing (2014)
- The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media (ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA September, 2010)
- Managing Sticky Situations at Work: Communication Secrets for Success in the Workplace, Praeger Press (ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA, June, 2009)
- Strategic Interviewing: Skills and Tactics for Savvy Executives, Greenwood Press, 2000.
- Currently under contract with Praeger Press to co-author The New Handshake: Sales 2.0
Published an article in T+D journal of the American Society of Training and Development: Engage Me, Please! November 2008 issue.
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Joan Curtis Books
The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media
http://www.thenewhandshake.com
Managing Sticky Situations at Work: Communication Secrets for Success in the Workplace
http://www.managingstickysituationsatwork.com
Sales Meets Social Media Blog
http://www.salescommunicationscoach.com/sales-meets-social-media/ blog
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Conversations: When to Hold 'Em and When to Fold 'Em
How many of us have walked into a room full of people and wanted to turn around and leave? When I think about networking events, my heart freezes. Didn’t our mothers teach us not to speak to strangers? Yet, in this article we're going to examine how to talk to strangers. First thing you need to know is we all hate going to networking events. Why? It’s hard to thrust yourself on someone else, no matter how “outgoing” you may be. Knowing that we are all miserable makes these things a tiny bit easier. Second, your job at a networking event is to meet people.
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Facebook vs. Twitter in Business
What is the value of Facebook over Twitter? Is there a difference? When do you use one or the other or both? In writing our book, The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media, Barb Giamanco and I discovered that some businesses prefer Facebook; some prefer Twitter and some use neither. We decided to take a look at the two platforms to help you distinguish which is best for you. As we’ve stated many times in the book, the ultimate decision about which social network to use lies with your company culture, goals and customer.
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Business Etiquette: What in the World Should I Do?
Last week I taught a class on Business Etiquette. My class consisted of people ranging in ages from the mid 20’s to the early 50’s. I noticed a definite gap in how people identified “correct” behavior. The younger people seemed more relaxed with the rules. Webster’s defines etiquette as “behaviors required by good breeding or prescribed by authority.” When I showed that definition to the class, they burst out laughing. What is good breeding? Did our parents prepare us for today’s workplace?
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You Are What You Wear
How do you tell someone what not to wear? When it comes to looking professional, many factors come into play. We all recognize the need to be clean and pressed (right?), but what about our hair or our nails or the scuffs on our shoes? I remember years ago interviewing candidates for a CEO ...
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Facebook vs. LinkedIn in Business
What is the value of LinkedIn over Facebook in business? Is there a difference? When do you use one or the other or both? In writing our book, The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media, Barb Giamanco and I discovered that some businesses prefer LinkedIn; some prefer Facebook and some use neither. We decided to take a look at the two platforms to help you distinguish which is best for you. As we’ve stated many times in the book, the ultimate decision about which social network to use lies with your company culture, goals and customer.
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What Does it Take to Really Listen?
What does it take to really hear someone? In a previous article I discussed 4 types of listeners-Compassionate, Too Busy to Listen, Trees for Forrest, It's Me. Each of us has a bit of all four of these types and yet we all aspire to the Compassionate Listener. Some of us think we are ...
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Sticky Situations in the Classroom
Fall is in the air and the school doors are about to open. For many this year offers some unique challenges. Many schools are facing budget cuts and some personnel cuts. These reductions place greater pressure on the people who remain. As demands increase but resources shrink, we face a world ripe for “sticky situations.” In the book, Managing Sticky Situations at Work, http://www.stickysituationsatwork.com I described a school related situation in which two teachers had trouble working together.
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Six Tips to Manage Sticky Situations at Work
When your boss asks you to do something that you feel is unethical, what do you do? If you spot two co-workers having an intimate lunch, what do you do? How do you handle telling a long-time employee that his job has been eliminated? One of the biggest headaches any manager faces is dealing with “people” problems.
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Listening with Your Heart, Not Your Head
What is the biggest communications challenge my clients face? The simple answer is listening. My clients struggle with listening because their heads get in the way. They grapple with ways to communicate their messages and often ask me about how to go about saying what they want to say the ...
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Tips to Create a LinkedIn Profile that Generates Leads
Have you wondered about what LinkedIn can do for you as a powerful lead generator? One of the most important things you need to do is create a profile that will entice people to your services or products. A boring, resume-looking profile will not do the trick. Furthermore, your profile must be complete. If you go to a networking event and someone later looks you up on LinkedIn (and they will!), what will they see? Here are some tips to help you create a LinkedIn profile that will generate sales leads:
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How Personality Affects How You Handle Sticky Situations
To better understand the Say It Just Right (SIJR) Model, you must know more about the people you are “saying it” to before you apply it to sticky situations. If we faced cardboard people everyday, who always acted the same way, we could apply the SIJR Model right away. Unfortunately (some may say fortunately) people are different.
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Social Savvy Means Time Management
How can you budget for social media time? People keep asking me how they can add social media to their already packed daily schedule. They fear that employees will be using their work time to Tweet about personal things or to talk to their friends on Facebook. One of the biggest complaints I hear from salespeople as well as CEO's relates to time.
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Joan C. Curtis
www.joanccurtis.com
June 30, 2014
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Total Communication Coaching
Learn to say it just right by communicating with confidence. Total Communication Coaching gives you the skills to do just that.
July 12, 2010
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Managing Sticky Situations at Work
Introducing the newly released book, Managing Sticky Situations at Work: Communication Secrets for Success in the Workplace. Learn more about the Say It Just Right Model of communication. Get the free introductory chapter to the book.
July 6, 2009
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Total Communications Coaching
Skills to become better than the best. How to communicate with confidence and say it just right. We talk about communication issues that come up in conflict as well as touchy etiquette situations. We also discuss how to make powerful presentations and communicate with confidence to groups.
February 18, 2009
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Joan Curtis
My favorite quote: Live as if you would die tomorrow; learn as if you would live forever. Ghandi
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I am currently writing fiction.With two books published and one under contract, my career as a communication specialist has taken a detour toward fiction writing.