We think that that is much tougher than this! Here are some of the things you might consider doing if you’re stressed or worried about next steps (and even if you’re not).
Inga Estes is a master coach known for her collaborative critical thinking and strategic leadership coaching, with diverse experience that includes facilitation, training, and training design. Inga specializes in working with executives who must produce results, gain the respect and trust of their teams, bosses and peers, and in accelerating the business performance of sales people and entrepreneurs. As a coach, she has worked with myriad small businesses, sales professionals, attorneys, accountants and entrepreneurs, and executives and teams at Citigroup’s Smith Barney, California Commerce Bank, CitiFinancial, Citibank, Morgan Stanley, Southern California Edison including the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Capital One Finance, the City of Burbank, and the National Association of Women Business Owners. Inga serves on the Board of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association as Past President of the Los Angeles chapter and has served on the Executive Committee of the Westside Economic Collaborative.
We think that that is much tougher than this! Here are some of the things you might consider doing if you’re stressed or worried about next steps (and even if you’re not).
In our crazy economic times, when more obstacles than usual litter the road, keep looking for the way around, the way through, or a way to climb over them.
Here are four basic sales steps for the sales person in all of us, and they apply whether you’re concerned with “internal, informal” sales or “external, professional” selling.
What do you call the most difficult thing you are dealing with right now? Do you call it a problem or a challenge? Even heartbreaking losses have gifts to give us if we’re willing to learn.
To further elicit motivation, delegate and empower others as much as possible and then find ways to reward individual and team successes as they occur.
How many people around you are you keeping busy and productive? This might be an entirely new way for you to look at your job.
A primary reason people don’t try new things is because we want to be able to do them perfectly the first time.
We’ve all heard the term Emotional Intelligence (or “EQ”) tossed around for a few years now, and many of us may still be perplexed at the entire idea. Here are the four fundamental steps of EQ in a nutshell.
Accountability is the greatest freedom we can create for ourselves. When we turn the tables and “own” the thing that owns us, we eliminate “victim mentality.”
Pull your analytical thinking off to the side and see if you can tunein to the free-flowing thinking mode instead. Your intuition might just have something refreshing to offer.
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