How Being A Mom Has Helped Me in Business
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For most women, becoming a mother is a turning point in their career. It’s a time in one’s life that’s rife with challenges, frustrations, and uncertainties, but it’s also when many of life’s most rewarding achievements and miraculous moments occur. What many new moms figure out rather quickly is that the skills that they use every day while taking care of children are also very applicable in succeeding in business. Nurturing a needy newborn isn’t all that different from managing a high-maintenance client, and trying to juggle chores and kids can be strikingly similar to the multi-tasking required to manage a large list of prospects. Here are just a few of the skills that are fine-tuned and mastered the minute you take that leap into motherhood.
Patience
Colicky infants, whiny toddlers, defiant teenagers – If you didn’t have patience before you had children, you quickly developed this virtue as a parent. And, the patience required for childcare definitely helps you increase your tolerance threshold in business. Difficult clients and prospects are plentiful, and patience is the key to unlocking their buying potential.
Time Management
As any new mother knows, time can be a scarce commodity and shouldn’t be wasted frivolously. Whether you need to meet a specific deadline or only have an hour before your child wakes from a nap, time management skills are essential to getting things done. Parenthood does wonders for enlightening women (and some men) on the need to budget time wisely, and this skill certainly gives moms a distinct competitive edge over their child-free colleagues.
Multi-Tasking
If you’ve ever changed a diaper while on the phone making a doctor’s appointment, while reading an email, you understand multi-tasking. Sure, we’d all love to be able to focus on one task at a time, but in this age of technology and information, the ability to multi-task is a necessity if you want to be competitive in the market. Motherhood promotes multi-tasking skills tremendously, and these skills remain with mothers long after the diaper changes cease.
Training Skills
One of the primary jobs of a parent is to teach your child what is needed to succeed in the world. This requires you to be a dedicated, skilled trainer. The same skills are required in business. Whether you’re training a classroom of seminar attendees or guiding a client through the sales process, the training abilities you’ve acquired as a mother will certainly come in handy in the business world.
Flexibility
Children are full of surprises, and staying flexible is a necessity to maintain sanity. Everyday is full of challenges and interruptions, and if there is one thing that is consistent about parenting, it’s the fact that it’s ever-changing. Inflexibility doesn’t work for parents, nor does it work in business. People can be indecisive, situations can change, and even your role can evolve. Having the flexibility to gracefully manage the unexpected is a skill that will always serve you well, whether with the kids or in the office.
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About the Author: Adrian Miller RSS for Adrian's articles - Visit Adrian's website Adrian Miller is President and Founder of Adrian Miller Sales Training http://www.adrianmiller.com), a sales consultancy that she launched in 1989. She is also a professional speaker, trainer and author (The Blatant Truth: 50 Ways to Sales Success and The Blatant Truth: How to Not Screw Up the Customer Service Game). Adrian's byline also appears in many business publications. Adrian specializes in designing and delivering highly customized sales skills training programs that are practical, results-driven and provide real world solutions for real world situations. Adrian's highly enthusiastic and energetic approach has won her raving fans nationwide and her program design is always extremely interactive and engaging. Along with her successful training, Adrian also helps companies nationwide to develop new sales strategies and processes designed to help them increase their revenues and market penetration. Adrian is also the founder of Adrian's Network (http://www.adriansnetwork.com), a fast growing virtual business networking community that combines the best of virtual business building with hands-on human facilitation. Click here to visit Adrian's website. Frankly My Dear I Dont Give a Damn Be a Sales Rock Star Something for Nothing Better Business ProspectingLooking for Mr Goodlead Is It Nagging Or Is It Persistence Sales Training Is Not An Option |
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