Thisway Communications is now producing a weekly podcast with 1-5 minutes of humor designed to bring a smile to your face. It is all part of the Derrick LOL :) project. Derrick has begun touring Canada with his new comedy act. He is a writer, humorist, storyteller and man of a thousand expressions. If you are looking for a break it what could be a dreary and even boring day at work-take a smile break! http://dmueller.podbean.com/
Speaking in London Ontario tomorrow at the Ramada hotel on team profiling for your business. Will be using the new team profiling tool that can change your team dynamics.
I have learned fro experience that leadership is hard, family is harder and living a life that makes a difference is not easy. Yet to truly make a difference one simply must choose to. Life can be a bowl full of cherries if you let it. If you don't like cherries choose something else. Go to the audio section to here a little comedy to make you smile called "A bowl full of cherries".
THISWAY Looking for
Booking Reps/Event Planners/Data base entry
Job Position #02152011 Booking/Event Planner
About THISWAY Communications
THISWAY is owned and operated by Derrick Mueller. The company specializes in training, motivational speaking, meeting facilitation and organizational consulting. The key products that we are marketing to businesses, churches, and non-profit organizations are:
1. LOL :) Inspirational Spring Comedy Tour
2. Team profiling and Leadership training
3. Coaching and mentoring packages
4. Strategic planning and meeting facilitation
5. Motivational speaking
For more Info: Check out www.derrickmueller.com or Facebook Thisway communications
Position Description
We are looking for individuals who can work from home to contact potential clients, follow-up potential bookings, develop data and schedule speaking events. The position is a one-month contract that can be extended with the primary purpose to book 1 week or more of a several three-week tours and get leads for other events.
We are looking to put 3-three week tours in spring and fall 2011. One in Canada, one in US and one in Australia and New Zealand. The ideal person is one who is at ease on the phone and is extremely sociable, self-initiating and organized.
The position is ideal for some one who needs flexible hours, would like to work from home, and wants to make extra cash. Potential for permanent part-time and full time work.
Key Skills needed
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Submit the following
Please submit a resume with work experience and training and a cover letter stating your skill set and experience, where you might need training, and your access to computer, Internet, and phone.
Email: derrick@derrickmueller.com
Coming this Spring during the months of May and June is the all new Comedy tour called "Derrick LOL :)". The show is ideal for conferences, banquets, appreciation dinners and special events. It is a combination Bill Cosby, tool time and seventh heaven all rolled into one. Derrick brings a unique style of comedy that inspires you at the same time. You will not know whether to laugh cry, or take notes. From Vegas, to BC to Quebec Derrick has been making his stamp. He is a story teller, with a scene of humor who happens to have a Doctorate. Contact Thisway Communications for bookings.
Meet Derrick Mueller-BREAKING THE MOLD Adapted from Michele Aubie's article
(Originally published in Tru-life Magazine-Adapted)
Have you ever had the fortune of meeting an extraordinary person, someone who can simplify the seemingly complicated with a discerning and insightful outlook on life? I have, and I’d like to introduce you to him. Meet Derrick Mueller, he is an author, an ordained minister, a teacher, an actor, an artist, a communications specialist, a leadership consultant, a CEO, an entrepreneur, a husband and a father. (Imagine squeezing all that onto one business card!) Most importantly, at the core of these many titles, is his one true designation: creator. Everything he has done has been out of a desire to create and to use his creativity with the purpose of making a positive difference in other people’s lives. He has spent his life creating hope and change for others in ways that are never short of innovative.
In light of Derrick’s many successes, his journey has not been without some scarring and close encounters with death. As a preschooler, Derrick survived a three-story fall. He was given two gifts: the gift of life and the gift of an innovative mind, or what doctors call slight brain damage. As a result, he has an out-of-the-box way of thinking that has been the source of new life and hope for the people he has worked with.
Along with his mind, Derrick is also unique in his perseverance and ability to overcome great difficulties, like his painful childhood. In his early teenage years, Derrick had another close brush with death when he made a near attempt on his own life. The weight he bore from an alcoholic mother, an abusive step father, the subsequent abuse he faced in foster homes as well as by some of his high school peers, became too much to bear and he wanted a way out. But before death sunk its cold grip into him, he found God and fully surrendered to his love and he chose to set forth a new direction in his life of helping others.
Derrick spent a large part of his early years working for the church as a minister, then as an executive director for a non-profit youth ministry, then he taught at a college in Saskatoon and held many seminars and spoken at hundreds of group meetings and crowds over 2,000 as a motivational speaker. Throughout these professions, Derrick began to realize that his message reached more people by using his humourous and storytelling approach instead of traditional church-like tactics. Being a self-proclaimed out-of-the-box thinker and embracing this approach, he started writing short humourous articles on his own life experiences that were published in a local newspaper. He became known as the unorthodox pastor and those people outside of whom he would normally reach in his profession came to admire these stories.
As Derrick went on to publish the stories into one book, he discovered another innovative art form he could utilize to deliver his message. When I Look Back I Laugh became a published book as well as a unique and ever-evolving one-man comedy show, written and performed by none other than the unorthodox pastor himself. Derrick describes the play as a personal story of overcoming, told through chronological tales of life’s journey. “I’m a creator and I’m okay with that. I like who I am and I’m not going to conform to anybody else’s image.” He continues to put on the play and donates the proceeds to different charities.
Derrick’s combined strengths in communications, leadership, and innovative thinking have made him a valuable guide for organizations facing various setbacks, be it financial, direction, vision, hope, team trouble, planning, etc. He is currently focusing his profession on leadership consulting. His expertise is often sought when people have exhausted their own survival strategies and need a new direction Through his many leadership consultations, he has helped a number of organizations including churches, non-profit groups, international businesses and the Emmanuel Bible College in Kitchener get back on track. He has written two books on his leadership and training prowess called The Amaryllis Way – Growing People Who Grow People and more recently, Growing Teams – The Amaryllis Way – Personal Assessment and Team Profiling Tool. Each book teaches leadership and teamwork through mentoring and nurturing processes, to better understand people’s individual strengths in order to achieve greater results as a whole.
What Derrick can’t communicate in words, in teaching, in acting, in writing, he can communicate in painting.
Derrick and his son Caleb opened an art gallery as a one year project in St. Jacobs called Thisway Gallery in 2009. “My crusade is I want to help people survive their marriages, survive their parents, survive their jobs, and sometimes if I can use humour to do it I will, if it’s teaching I will, if it’s painting I will.” For Derrick, painting is not only therapeutic it is another way of communicating hope. “Art allows people to express what’s in their heart and inner soul.” He asserts that whether you are the painter or the admirer, “if you can help people interpret their own pain, they’re own joy, their own reality, then I feel like you’ve been successful.”
With an endless list of success stories associated with his name, Derrick’s greatest achievement is what remains closest to his heart. “In the end, it’s the relationship with my wife and kids that’s the most important thing.” He makes sure to set aside time each month to spend with his four kids and he continues to date his wife of twenty-eight years who, he proclaims with a smile, “I’m still madly in love with.”
Derrick’s mission to create hope and positive change in other people’s lives remains steadfast; “I want to give honour to the people who made a difference in my life by making a difference in other people’s lives.”
