Success takes commitment and persistence. Most want success sooner than later. If you are one of them, accept reality sooner and you speed success. The old adage that ignorance is bliss — or as some live it, denial is bliss — comes at a cost. It delays success.
Accept reality sooner & speed success.
Speed Professional Success
- What are you strengths and what, truly, are your weaknesses? The sooner you accept the reality, the sooner you will start using your strengths in more ways and working on your weaknesses.
- Leaders, which of your team members are propelling the mission forward to success and which, if any, are useless drag. Accept the reality sooner and you will more likely give recognition that will inspire the team to even greater heights. You will also have necessary conversations with those who are not committed. Success requires both.
- What is the ONE thing in your work or life that eats away at you. Be honest with yourself. What is it? Why does it eat away at you? Admit the reality and you are more likely to work to change it or accept it as an absurdity of life. Success comes sooner with either approach.
- If your business is having trouble, push aside fatalistic worries that drive you to denial. Accept the reality and bring a mastermind group or expert consultants together to build a recovery plan with you. Admit the truth sooner; success is close at hand.
Truly stuck with unchangeable conditions? Delayed by family issues or health problems?
Accept the the reality of the moment instead of struggling against the impossible. If you’re not where you’re at, you’re nowhere. In this case, changing your professional goals for the time being may be the fastest route to success.
What personal or professional story will you share with us to speed success?
Kate Nasser, The People-Skills Coach, inspires leaders and teams to identify and overcome obstacles to success. Her energy is legendary, her insight objective, and her results tangible.
My passion is customer service and teamwork. So I was very pleased to deliver a key session at the International Help Desk Conference Las Vegas, NV.
“Conversations with Customers: Best & Worst Moments”
The session was recorded. If you want a copy of the CD, please contact me.
Metrics don’t create great service. They measure great service that you create through the conversation. In fact, the conversation is the customer’s metric — voice-to-voice and online.
When conversing, speak from inside the customer’s head.
- Value the customer’s need for help – that’s why you are in business.
- Use the customer’s language and jargon — not yours.
- Respect the customer’s expertise and add yours to it.
- Use the customer’s perspective when choosing your focus.
- Embrace the customer’s business priorities and deadlines to satisfy them.
Lastly, make the service experience easy and enjoyable for the customer. View this related post GPS Your Brain to Work Other Personality Types if you want to deliver customer service at the highest level.
I welcome your contributions in the comment section below. If you wish to share the info in this post with others, I ask only that you credit this site.
Yours in service … Kate
Picture it. Your organization is planning a live or on-line event. You need a dynamic keynote speaker who is on target. Due to budget you are not going after the most famous speakers whose specialty you already know.
How do you select the right professional speaker from the millions (yes — millions) out there? There are hundreds of speaker sites with pictures, videos, bios, one sheets, and testimonials. Before you search these sites, use these guidelines to prepare and save time.
To find the right professional keynote speaker for your live or online event, first answer the following 7 questions:
- What is the primary thing you want the audience to experience?
Change in perspective?
Fun time?
Touching moment?
Deep thought?
Change in behavior?
Specific skills?
Call to action?
- Who is your target audience — specifically? Sounds like a simple question yet take a minute and describe it more completely. For example: Our target audience is front-line customer service professionals and their front-line managers in the technology industry faced with the stress of reorganization and possible downsizing or outsourcing. They are from all over the globe and vary in culture, age, and background.
- What one topic will connect best to your event?
Leadership? Customer Service? Teamwork? Change? Finance? Healthcare? Sales? etc….
- Given that one topic, what is the ONE message you want your audience to receive?
Dig just a bit deeper to highlight some specifics. Example: If your main topic is customer service, clarify whether you mean selling to customers or serving customers. This is the biggest area of confusion and often you end up with the wrong speaker. There is a difference between sales and service! Is your message how to sell better or how to serve better?
- If you are not the decision maker for this event, ask the decision maker(s) what situation would keep them awake at night? In tough times, this is the topic they will most likely purchase.
- Also ask the decision maker(s), what bright picture do they see for their business or industry. If they are visionary leaders, they will purchase a topic that will help get them there.
- Scope and reach. Do they picture this event with a local or global focus? Simply within their industry or across industries? Does it affect all generations or a specific one? Will there be different cultures involved? This scope and reach step clarifies the needs even further and puts a spotlight on those speakers you will want.
You will get far better proposals from speakers when you first prepare with this list. Regardless of your topic or audience, these 7 questions will help you sail through the speakers’ sites with greater speed and *most importantly with the end result of picking the right speaker for your live or on-line event.
I have been a professional speaker and trainer on customer service, teamwork, and change for 20 years. I ask these 7 questions when planners call me. It tells me right away if I am the right speaker for their event or if not, who I would recommend. So I offer these 7 questions for your success in finding the right speaker every time!
I welcome your questions, comments, and contributions in the comments field below. You are welcome to use this info on other sites if you will credit this site as the source.
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Many thanks and speak with you soon! Kate Nasser, The People-Skills Coach