Janelle Brittain

Biography

Janelle Brittain can empathize with you. She felt especially challenged during a change for the worse: a downturn period in her computer-sales career. Frustration with all of the popular training courses led her on a search for some new approaches. 

What she discovered were methods to increase her thinking, flexibility and communication capabilities, giving her more control in challenging situations. By practicing these techniques, her performance skyrocketed! She became the top Sales Rep in her Division at XEROX every single month for an entire year. 

As she shared these techniques with others in positions as diverse as executives to support and technical staff, they all experienced the same excellent results. This success motivated Janelle to establish the Dynamic Performance Institute so she could share these skills with everyone. 

Janelle Brittain is an internationally recognized public speaker, trainer and consultant with more than 25 years of business experience in training, communications, marketing, sales and management. Her mission, through DPI, is to equip businesspeople with the skills they need to excel amidst shifting paradigms. Since founding the Institute, she has shared her techniques with thousands of people throughout the world. 

Publications

How to Say It® Performance Reviews Phrases and Strategies for Painless and Productive Performance Reviews

A Practical, Step-by-Step Guide For Anyone Who Gives or Receives Performance Reviews
This useful and encouraging guide shows how performance reviews can be transformed from a perfunctory and stressful corporate ritual into a powerful, positive and effective tool for both employers and employees. Management consultants Meryl Runion and Janelle Brittain, who have coached thousands successfully through the process, cover the essentials, including:
* 5 simple, essential steps for mastering every performance review

* What to say - and what not to say

* Hundreds of useful phrases organized by topic

* Common pitfalls and how to steer clear of them

* How to master the art of body language and verbal tone

* Real-life success stories to emulate (and blunders to avoid)

* How to make performance reviews a seamless part of TIPS: a Totally Integrated Performance System

This guide will change not only what you say, but how you think about what you say to turn the review into a positive motivating experience that produces real behavior change. Order now at Amazon.com for just $11.95. After you've read it, write a review on Amazon to tell us what you thought and how you used it.

Titles

Managing Generation X'ers
Generation X'ers bring a very different perspective to the workplace than Baby Boomers'. With that new perspective comes different motivators, ways of learning and functioning in the workplace. This can present a problem to managers who are accustomed to the Baby Boomers work style.

A Critical Path: Integrating Cultures After Mergers and Acquisitions
Most failed mergers/acquisitions are caused by cultures that clashed and never recovered. Learn how to successfully blend cultures by identifying the most critical factors of each culture, and then how to set a plan to integrate them. You will receive a Corporate Culture Analysis Profile, which you can apply to your situation to provide insights into potential (or current) problem areas. Through real life examples and an Action Plan Outline, you will walk out of this program with a customized blueprint for integrating the cultures -- whether the new partnering is about to happen or is a year or so old.

Rebuilding Your Teams After Layoffs, Reorganizations or Mergers
How you deal with the issues of morale, motivation and productivity after layoffs, reorganizations and mergers can make the difference between recovery or a dreadful downward spiral.

Exceptional Thinking Under Pressure®
Keeping the mind in high gear during those tense, pressure- cooker times is key to survival at work. Learn practical, proven techniques to use before, during and after important meetings or other stressful events.

Flexible Thinking®
Now more than ever, businesses must strive to maximize the productivity of a shrinking staff and increased workload. By learning how to switch gears easily during multi-tasked, fast-paced days, you will be able to make the most of the appropriate mental faculty when you need it, increasing your productivity dramatically.