Acquiring new skills is essential for long term business success. As the world globalizes and business evolves it is of utmost importance for us to continue to learn new skills if we’re going to stay ahead of the competition. This can include skills like learning new technology, basic communication skills and even technical expertise in …
It’s exciting and supposed to be actionable when we talk about language to use in sales. It’s incredibly popular to find clips on the right language to use or the words that will be most persuasive. But…What if we said that this is the wrong place to spend your time and energy in sales? That …
There are a number of ways we can self-sabotage our productivity. Most of the time we do this without even realizing we’re hurting ourselves more than helping. The path to hell is paved with good intentions, so they say. Let’s review two common ways we kill our productivity and how to overcome them. Want to …
What if we said there was a trait you could have as a business owner or professional that would keep your employees more engaged, attract your ideal customers and raving fans, magnify your resiliency and level up your creativity? There is, and it’s called passion. Passion plays an important role in business today as entrepreneurs …
“‘We have two ears and one mouth, use them proportionately.” – Anonymous Some wisdom holds true over time better than others. Some of the best advice I’ve heard about being in sales is ‘shut up,’ or something similar. The reason for this is, most of the time when we talk, we learn nothing. When we …
We all have trade-offs occur every day. No matter what decisions we make there is a trade-off. For example, let’s say we choose to wake up early to get a strong start to the week. We are accepting that our sleep will be impacted to have more time in the day. Some sacrifices we make …
Many service professionals struggle with failure and have been conditioned to view failure as a negative. Failure is neither negative nor positive. It’s a result we choose to view and interpret as negative, positive or neutral. What if I told you we could choose how we view failure and completely change our outlook on failure. …
Failure is inevitable and it’s not a bad thing. We look at failure as a negative and yet, in the grand experiment that is life and business, failure is an absolute certainty. Everyone experiences failure and it’s often the best learning experience for us. Failure can be the best teacher and should be embraced. In …
Vulnerability is shown to develop stronger relationships. Those of us that can practice vulnerability are able to overcome our bodies natural physiological response to the risk of opening ourselves up. Not only does it help develop our relationships with others, it allows us to strengthen the internal relationship we have with ourselves. In this blog …
Momentum is an incredible thing. It makes achieving our goals easy! Seriously, who struggles to do something they are excited and passionate about? Absolutely no one, that’s who! When we struggle is at the point that we lose our passion and excitement. When we get knocked off track, our momentum is halted and we have …
