Friday, August 07, 2009
Take advantage of leverage to magnify your strengths, maximize your time and multiply your assets. If you know where your leverage points are, you can do a whole lot more with less. When it comes to leverage-ability, big doors swing on little hinges!
Leverage your talents, skills and resources and to maximize your leverage-ability, you can:
• Partner with someone who has similar clientele, each of you fulfilling their different needs
• Search for people who can complement you and leverage your talent.
• Build client loyalty and selling "through" them. Word of mouth is the most valuable marketing tool.
• Invest in skill building and expanding your professional toolbox. The better your skills, the more confident, prepared, and positioned you are to take advantage of opportunities.
• Earn what you’re really worth and spend more time leading with your strengths.
• Don't spend a lot of time strengthening your weaknesses. If you strengthen your weaknesses, you’ll eventually weaken your strengths.
• Leverage other people and and pay someone to do lesser tasks.
The return on this investment can be geometric, not arithmetic.