Soft skill strategies are power strategies.
As an employer/manager, you can influence employees to collaborate with each other.
As an individual, you can influence coworkers to treat you positively.
In the works!
2 Short & Sweet Self-Study Courses
Collaboration Up / Toxic Gossip Down
(Rewards Up / Losses Down)
Wherever you are in your workplace,
you can take at least some control to reduce the incivility of toxic gossip.
Toxic gossip can cost companies $14,000 per employee.
Toxic gossip increases legal costs and compliance risks.
Toxic gossip causes major health problems.
Course Videos:
Introduction
Course presenter’s background and research
Good, bad, & ugly gossip
Definition of gossip based on decades of research
Gossip in the workplace
Gossip Characteristics #2
Gossip Characteristics #7
Gossip Characteristics #8
Gossip Cells
Gossip Ears Networking
After you finish the course, you will have lifetime access to simple & effective strategies:
Encouraging good gossip, 8 strategies with 11 real world examples
Discouraging bad gossip, 7 strategies with 9 real world examples + more
Short-circuiting ugly gossip, 7 strategies with 10 real world examples
Connecting Gossip Cells, 4 strategies with 6 real world examples
Gossip Ears Networking, 8 strategies with 12 “listen for’s” and 1 “chat for”
Bonus #1: No quizzes
Bonus #2: Resources for success
Bonus #3: Occasional emails announcing new real world examples, new resources, and new strategies for success
Career Advancement Up / Career Backlash Down
(Loyalty Up / Stereotypes Down)
Glass ceilings are the backlash of stereotypes.
Inviting loyalty can break the stereotypes that build glass ceilings.
Learn how to create Invitation For Loyalty Plans
to limit backlash from someone who stereotypes you.
Return whenever you need a new Invitation for Loyalty Plan
to limit backlash.
Glass ceilings exist for:
All women
Men of color
Sensitive men
Workers who are the ‘wrong’ age
People with the ‘wrong’ upbringing
Etc.
Workplace violence can happen when:
3 different beliefs about circumstances create anger.
Course Videos:
Introduction
3 groups of people
Moments that satisfy
Stereotypes and glass ceilings
Feelings that trigger workplace violence
Your DISC behavior style
Natural Behaviors
Backlash Bewares
Benefit Behaviors
With You Invites: Behavior Style moments of dignity
Your Spranger guiding value
Natural Behaviors
Backlash Bewares
Benefit Behaviors
With You Invites: Guiding value moments of passion
During the course Paula explains 2 successful Invitation To Loyalty Plans:
Paula opened a supervisor’s slammed door on one job. The supervisor went from being angry with Paula to laughing with Paula.
On a different job, a colleague warned Paula to never be alone with an angry coworker because she was afraid the angry coworker would physically attack Paula. Their supervisor erased the threat with simple & effective soft skill strategies.
After you finish the course you will have lifetime access to all of these simple & effective strategies:
DISC Behavior Style Backlash Bewares, 12 not to dos
DISC Behavior Style Benefit Behaviors, 12 strategies
DISC Behavior Style Moments Of Dignity With You Invites, 24 invites
Spranger Guiding Value Backlash Bewares, 18 not to dos
Spranger Guiding Value Benefit Behaviors, 18 strategies
Spranger Guiding Value Moments of Passion With You Invites, 36 invites
Bonus #1: No quizzes
Bonus #2: Resources for success
Bonus #3: Occasional emails announcing new real world examples, new resources, and new strategies for success
Both courses explain the importance of bystanders
with real world examples of bystander power.
Using soft skill strategies proves to bystanders
that you have social competence,
one of the 2 core competencies of emotional intelligence.
Both courses are short & sweet.
The video segments total about 60 minutes and are mostly stories to help you understand soft skill power.
Between video segments are story forms so you can fill in details from your own life.
The story forms are also short & sweet.
Both courses presented by
Paula M. Kramer
Master’s in Communication
Soft Skill Power Strategy Mastermind
Testimonials
Paula started influencing people at age 18 with her first 2 gossip power strategies. She learned some strategies from other people, but still invents strategies as opportunities arise. Over the years, her influence power from soft skill strategies has brought her these successes:
Support for the various editions of the book Paula first wrote as a grad school independent study project.
From Pyramids To Circles: Shaping Groups To Succeed
The new revision will include a chapter about the spectacularly successful county Paula lives in.
A major organization in the county plans to promote that new edition.
Support for making her amateur passion documentary,
Renewing Energies: The Ingredients For Spectacular Success
(Coming to Vimeo)
Making this documentary taught Paula how to attract unforeseen success to herself.
These courses teach you to attract unforeseen success to yourself.
An invitation to produce her own TV show.
Relationship Reckoning,
for worldwide Boss Ladies TV network.
This is an unforeseen success Paula attracted to herself with soft skill power strategies.
Relationship Reckoning will be on an international network
giving Paula the ability to market all of her books
— including From Pyramids To Circles –
to a worldwide audience for free.
One success on top of another.
Paula faced glass ceilings as:
A woman
A disabled person living with invisible pain from of a misdiagnosed spinal injury
A single mother when my husband died while our daughter was a baby
Too young
Too old
Paula broke both stereotypes and glass ceilings to become:
An international speaker at age 50, adding to my international speaking resume from my late 60s on.
An international bestselling author for the first time at age 70.
An international TV producer at age 71.
Stereotypes About You that Build Glass Ceilings
You face more stereotypes than you realize.
Stereotypes are the building blocks of glass ceilings.
See the stereotypes about you in the blog posts that fit your life. Each blog post includes Points to Ponder:
Negative Stereotypes Behind Bad & Ugly Gossip: People In General
Negative Stereotypes Behind Bad & Ugly Gossip: Workplaces
Negative Stereotypes Behind Bad & Ugly Gossip: Romance
Negative Stereotypes Behind Bad & Ugly Gossip: Ethnic, National, & Racial Identities
Negative Stereotypes Behind Bad & Ugly Gossip: Poverty
You probably won’t be able to break every stereotype and every glass ceiling in your life.
But you won’t be able to break any stereotype or any glass ceiling unless you know how to break them.
You always have control with one particular group of people. Take advantage of that control to invite unforeseen success to yourself.
Sign up for notification that Paula’s short & sweet self-study courses have launched.
The first people to learn these soft skill power strategies will be first
to benefit from positively influencing others.
© Paula M. Kramer, 2022
All rights reserved.
Last updated October 12, 2022