Inspired Choice

Your Inspired Choice for Career & Team Success

 

I am Gail Sussman-Miller of Inspired Choice. I inspire and help...

Senior executives in career transition or advancement get better results

Women and minorities more powerfully show up, speak up, move up

Leaders and teams improve performance, collaboration, results

The secret is boosting emotional and social intelligence!

I am expert at helping you get better results by working from the inside out. First you will improve your mindset, assumptions and thoughts and then layer on practical, tactical small steps.

I help you take inspired action, turn career obstacles into opportunities, and tap into your courage using a holistic, mission-driven marketing approach. Yes, you can have more success, less stress and greater joy. 

What step would you take today
if you were brave?

Get a boost of inspiration from Gail here!

I help small to medium-sized companies make more money by reaching better solutions sooner. How? I teach leaders to be mission-driven, authentic and transparent. I help their teams improve their effectiveness, collaborate more cleanly, and inspire everyone to communicate more effectively by.... 

• Improving habits of thought, therefore emotions, choices, action and results
• Boosting emotional intelligence to reduce conflict, cope with challenges, improve decision-making
• Leveraging strengths instead of trying to fix weaknesses 
• Identifying and applying natural existing success formulas
• Being mission-driven creating meaning and money

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Boost your emotional intelligence with a no-cost eBook to improve effectiveness in business relationships here. Gain confidence networking with 10 how to love networking tips and get your elevator speech worksheet here. Improve your public speaking and find your target audience with an audio here.

You are in the right place if you want to get really clear about what you truly want, overcome "yes, but" obstacle thinking, make inspired choices and take action to increase career success.

Raise emotional intelligence for career success!

What if you could reduce or even avoid conflicts at work?  What if you could elicit more volunteerism, cooperation and collaboration on your team?  What might happen if you could better manage your emotional "hijacking" due to incidents and respond vs. react?

That is the power of emotional intelligence.  Boost your emotional fitness and career advancement, job search and business development results with help from Inspired Choice and the tools below.

The good news is emotional intelligence can be learned and improved and has a 2:1 success ratio over IQ and technical skills!

Sign up below!  Get your no-cost eBook "10 Secrets to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence" 

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The following materials are from a workshop on how to leverage and boost emotional intelligence at work delivered to groups and executives by Inspired Choice.  See how Inspired Choice can help you! Contact Gail for ways to tailor this to you or your team.

1. What is emotional intelligence? Learn how to boost your success at work
2. The Inspired Choice Emotional Intelligence Model - Your 5 GPS Career Success Tools
   
3. Discover 3 tools to improve work relationships and self-regulation:
   • Tool #1:  Write your Owner's Manual to discover how you operate best
   • Tool #2:  Me vs. Them 
   • Tool #3:  Conflict Management Worksheet
   • Tool #4:  Designing Alliances
4. Find 10 secrets to boost your emotional intelligence you can put into action today
5.  Get the expanded 10 secrets now in a 44-page eBook. Get your copy below. 
6. Evidence that emotional intelligence makes a difference-- participant learning!
7. Fear-driven behaviors listed by Marshall Goldsmith as 20 bad habits impeding success.

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One fan said of this eBook, "Gail, you are so good at making intellectual connections, recognizing patterns and seeing and being open to possibilities. I'm always struck by the apparent ease with which you create simple and powerful exercises - elegant, strength-based solutions that help people address their challenges.  I'm certified to administer and interpret two EI instruments, and though I like the insights they offer, the support material addressing the "so now what?" question has, in my opinion, been lacking. Your exercises move the issue from an intellectual concept to real life examples that people can grab onto and do something with." Candace Thompson, PCC

These materials were shared at a workshop on how to leverage and boost emotional intelligence at work for the Association Forum.  In just one hour, the 45 association professionals in the room experienced first-hand a before-and-after review of one of their own challenging, conflict situations. They learned new approaches by using emotional intelligence tools and skills. Now you can learn to make your work relationships better and even more fun, too.

As one participant said about this training and knowledge, "Gail shares herself with the group in a very clear manner.  Great vibe!" "I will incorporate into my daily life, personal and professional [the practical tips].  I will listen better, not take things personally, not act in fear.  I'll be clear about what I want, take responsibility, and discuss issues using EQ (emotional intelligence)."  Mary T. Markovich

How do you operate best? Read the manual!

When your cell phone stops working or your computer freezes, you turn to the owner's manual, or an expert, for help. Right?

How well do you understand the care and feeding of YOUR equipment... YOU?!  Wouldn't it be nice if, when we were born, we had an owner's manual attached at the end of our umbilical cord?  You could hand it to people you work with, date, marry, and interact with and they would know how to get the most out of a relationship with you!

The good news is you can write your own manual! The key to greater happiness is to listen to the special programming of your built-in GPS and your operating system.  Self-awareness and managing your energy at the P.I.E.S.* level will guide you to thoughts, emotions, choices, actions and results that make you happier and healthier!  (*Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Spiritual)

Here is a simple, yet thought-provoking, tool that will guide you to a new level of understanding about how your equipment operates, warning signs of a problem, trouble shooting tips and ways to avoid energy drains and replenish energy levels when needed.

Click here to download the Inspired Choice Owner's Manual. Set aside 30 minutes and a quiet state of mind to complete this form.  Then email Gail to learn how you can integrate this learning into new habits of thought and behavior. 

If you are serious about reducing overwhelm, increasing reslience and optimism, and making choices that guide you to deeper levels of career and personal happiness, email Gail or call 773.477.4012 for a complimentary phone consultation to learn how she helps executives, women and teams take brave action for greater career success and joy.

For more information on emotional intelligence and tools Gail offers, like her free eBook "10 Secrets to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence" go to this link!

Your Leadership GPS is Calling. Are You Listening?

Emotional intelligence is like a built-in GPS (Global Positioning System). It advises you when you veer off course, suggests U-turns, and guides you to the one, true destination we all share.... happiness!

Your emotions are a tool that was factory-installed at birth. You rarely hear about emotions in the workplace and yet they are behind every decision we make. Think of the times you said “yes” when you meant “no” or acted out of integrity for fear of judgment from your boss or competition you perceived exists with co-workers or in job search.

What if I told you that you can improve the way you lead yourself and others by recognizing and paying attention to the signals your emotional guidance system is sending?  Read on for some good news and a free ebook.

Why emotional intelligence focus works: Reticular Activator

Thanks goes to David Wainwright for sharing this article with me and other executives in job search. This describes the science behind visualizing your desires and the power of planting suggestions, like goals, in your subconscious. What are goals do you have for your career? Your life? Start with the simple goal of happiness and set your built-in GPS, your emotions, to HAPPINESS!

**** See the source below… YouMeWorks.com

THE RETICULAR ACTIVATOR is a part of the brain the stays on alert. It's job is to make you notice some things and ignore other things (if you noticed everything, you'd be too distracted to function). When you buy a new VW, it seems like the whole world has bought VWs, because you notice them everywhere. That's the reticular activator at work.

Motivational speakers, business consultants, and authors of "success books" always stress the importance of having a clear goal. One of the reasons goals are so important is because they activate your reticular activator.

Be your own thought leader! Get to know your GPS

Emotional intelligence is like a built-in GPS (Global Positioning System).  It advises you when you veer off course, suggests U-turns, and guides you in the general direction of your one, true destination.... happiness!  

Your emotions are a factory-installed tool.  So often we try to squelch or squash emotions when they seem to get in the way.   

What might happen in your career if you tuned in to the signals your emotional system is sending?

The Inspired Choice Emotional Intelligence Model is presented below with the 5 key skill areas of emotional intelligence with 3 sub-skills for each.  This model is inspired by the EQi-2.0 MHS Emotional Intelligence Assessment, of which I am certified to deliver.

Scientifically, our emotions are activated in our "emotional brain" and are recognized and stimulate action before our thinking brain can add reasoning.  Our prehistoric ancestors relied on this fight or flight mechanism. This can lead to what feels like emotional hijacking. You react vs. respond. Heightened awareness of your emotional intelligence default operating system is like realizing you have an owners manual!  You can improve your functioning, prevent overheating and accidents, avoid repairs and troubleshoot your system when you have a system failure!  Why not improve your habits of thought and behavior and therefore your results!  Think about the dominoe effect below... it all starts with your thoughts, which held over time become beliefs, about you and others.

Thoughts –> Feelings –> Choices –> Actions = Results

Inspired Choice can help you boost these 15 skills to increase career success! 

Engaging, Inspiring, Impactful Learning with Heart

Gail Sussman Miller, of Inspired Choice, is an engaging, dynamic, inspiring speaker and trainer. She delivers results-oriented learning experiences with heart. Gail's expertise lies in teaching leaders and teams new habits of thought and action. She includes learning and application in every session.  Gail focuses on how to you can succeed and be happier by learning to be mission-driven, expand limiting mindsets, and leverage emotional intelligence to increase your contribution, advance your career advancement and have more joy. 

Do you want to inspire your team, company, conference to...

• Achieve career advancement or transition in less time with better results?
• Make your next career move with intention, heart and conviction tied to your mission?
• Build and sustain more meaningful conversations and relationships in your network?
• Retain top performing women and minority leaders?
• Exponentially, tangibly advance the careers of high potentials?
• Help employees collaborate more effectively? 
• Reach better solutions sooner?

Then you need to contact Gail and her team for a rare brand of experiential learning and professional growth from the inside out. 

Workshops and Speaking Topics

All sessions tailored to match you and your team's mission, culture, and desired outcomes

• Your Career GPS is Calling!  Are you Listening?
• Leveraging Your Emotional Intelligence for Career Success
• 10 Secrets to Boost Emotional Intelligence and Your Career
• How to Love Networking 
• How to Love Speaking (Presenting)
• How to Love Managing People
• How to Love Selling without Selling
• How to Be Real in the World of Virtual Networking
• Top LinkedIn Strategies to Be Likeable, Referable and Linkable (review)
  
• Be More Marketable, Memorable and Referable
• How to Find Your Target Audience by Knowing Your WHO and WHAT

Topics Designed for Women Leaders:

• Reduce Overwhelm by Setting Boundaries; The Art of Comfortably Saying "No" by Saying "Yes, and..."
• How to Love Making Requests; Asking for What You Want
• Conflict Resolution Formula That Ends Me vs. Them
• Self-Leadership -- The Key to Career and Business Success

Descriptions for a sampling of these sessions follows.