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When You Need Help, Seek The Experts

Guest post by: Enrico Varella

Article Overview: Experts have more than knowledge. They also possess tacit experience and tacit wisdom. They are regarded as experts because they know more, have expertise, and can make recommendations based on their area of specialty and passion. Experts can help us think and do outside the box. Thus, the roles of coach and mentor have their relevance in both the corporate world as it does with our community, family and our friends.

When You Need Help, Seek The Experts

'Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!’ ~ Theme song

We don’t have all the answers, thus we ask questions. Questions give us focus and a sense of purpose. Open-ended questions allow us to comprehend. Close-ended questions allow us to verify, validate and consolidate. We may not fully understand many things, although we say we do. What does understanding something mean to you? Does having the head knowledge mean you understand? When you say you know, does that mean you also understand? If you know, can you apply your knowledge (as skills) confidently?

These questions may be vexing, yet we ask them to comprehend, appreciate, learn, and understand matters. Our curiosity underlies our ability to examine, investigate, check, research, discover, learn, ponder, and consider. Adventurers are driven by a sense of curiosity and the need to discover. Our maritime forefathers demonstrated that when they set sail for the New World with some getting utterly lost and disorientated. Some were purported to have sailed off the edge of the world!

Experts have more than knowledge. They also possess tacit experience and tacit wisdom. They are regarded as experts because they know more, have expertise, and can make recommendations based on their area of specialty and passion. Experts can help us think and do outside the box. Thus, the roles of coach and mentor have their relevance in both the corporate world as it does with our community, family and our friends.

My triathlon coach (who has completed the Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Kona, Hawaii) helped me with my quest for a Boston Qualifier (entry-by-merit to the Boston Marathon). My age-group qualifying time for a marathon is 3:30 (or 3 hours 30 minutes). I did just below-3:30:00 in the rolling Hong Kong Marathon in February 2011. I did not expect a personal best time on what has been considered a tough and hilly course. Having reviewed my results, I will be attempting another BQ in early-July 2011.

How open and broad-minded are you to professional advice? How well do you take feedback about your business or profession? When was the last time you sought an expert? Do you have a coach for your endurance sport? Learn and lead. Learn to lead.

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