![]() ![]() They just showed the same disrespect to me that I had already shown to myself. If they’d just said no thanks earlier I’d have been fine. The disrespect of my time to leave it to the last minute, and then dismiss it all so casually. So when I got a breezy email just hours before the proposal was due (of course I had completed it, I’m a professional) telling me “oh, we’re kinda hesitating so we’re not going to look at your proposal, so don’t bother sending it”…. They had all the ideas, they were just getting in their own way by not having some key skills.Īnd I could see their intention was good. I genuinely believe that what I was offering would help them get unstuck so that they could fulfil their potential. So I swallowed my own No, and proceeded to create the proposal they asked for. They knew and accepted that they had an issue, and seemed willing to invest time and money to address it. So I had this needs assessment and solutions discussion with a potential client and I wasn’t convinced that they were ready to do the work. If you want to pay someone else to give you a tick the box kind of training, go ahead, have at it. You’ll waste your money if you resist what you’re buying from me. We’ll make sure it’s fun, practical, and will have positive impact for you, and your team.īut if you don’t want to do that, then there is no point in hiring me. It requires you to change the way you think and behave.Īnd that means you’ve got to do the work. ![]() ![]() While I want people to be excited to work with me (it’s so much better for us all when we are all really keen), it’s so much more important that people are receptive to learning.īasically everything I do is about learning. While assessing needs and solutions with a potential client, I had a strong NO building inside of me. We are never more shocked by someone’s behaviour, then when they do exactly what we expected they would do.Ĭonsider my post from last week. Then like me, you probably were saying yes to something when you should have said no. Have you ever had dealings with someone that’s left you thinking ![]()
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