Better Business Coaching

It is well documented and recognised that the UK has become a Service Industry. The Industrial Revolution is a part of our history and many skilled workers have needed to adapt to the current service industry trend, along with the business world. By acknowledging this need to adapt to the changing environment, many people have needed to learn new skills or up-skill their transferable skills in order to survive.

Have you ever stopped and considered the skills you are selling to your customers?

Products speak for themselves and advertising plays a huge part in selling products, but skills are less evident, if you do not sell them well enough.

Culturally, we are not comfortable with being confident with our skills. We have received many negative messages in regards to celebrating our skills confidently, for example; ‘Who do you think you are?’ or ‘Nobody likes a show off?’. Well employers and the consumer DO like a ‘show off’, because how on earth can you gain others confidence or respect by being a ‘shrinking violet?’.

There are an abundance of skills you possess and need to acknowledge daily and celebrate openly, in order to gain the confidence of the consumer to buy into your service.

Skills Analysis

Write down a list of your skills, no matter how great or small. Then write down your Strengths, then your Attitude and finally your Areas for Development.  Once you have acknowledged all of these, you will be able to sell your skills and strengths more enthusiastically. You must also consider you Attitude to your business and then also enable yourself to work on those that need developing. Life is a journey of development. We are what we think. Our attitude to ourselves and our service/products are paramount for success.

I continue to inform my clients that we all have an abundance of skills we now take for granted. We all learned how to drive a car or ride a bike or communicate our needs or learn a skill specific to our business. Do we take these skills for granted now we do them without due care or consideration? Our skills base are our biggest asset, along with the skills base or any employee’s.

It is important that your skills match the need of the customer or employer you are targeting.  Positive and Confident Skills Matching, is the key to your success.

Confidence Conditioning

Remember you have been conditioned to be quietly confident or not confident at all. This is not what the customer wants. They want to buy a confident service provider….so come on all you quiet confident people out there….get loud and proud. Sell your skills and more importantly, connect and be consistent with your Confidence.

Self Limiting Beliefs

You were born Confident and throughout your lifetime, will continue to make many mistakes and will pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and continue to thrive, only if you consider what your Self Limiting Beliefs are. Once you have recognised them, can you begin to overcome them.

Here are a couple of common Self Limiting Beliefs:-

I am not as good as others.
I am never going to make it.
My dreams are just dreams.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Muhammad Ali always told himself and the world….“I am the Greatest”. “I am the World Heavyweight Champion”. He continued to repeat these messages to the world before he became exactly that….He was the Greatest and became World Heavyweight Champion. ‘What We Think We Become’. Ali’s beliefs were solid in his mindset, due to continual Positive Conditioning from his mother.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali

We must not continually rely on others to provide us with continual Positive Conditioning. We must rely on ourselves 24/7 and become independent in our Belief and Goal setting.

Positive messages to our minds are fundamental for physical and emotional wellbeing along with ongoing Personal Development and Success.

What are you waiting for?