When you strive to be your clients’ professional True North, they invite you to sit at their business tables. Because you are their trusted, purposeful and consistent source of direction and insights. Even when there is nothing to sell, design, manage or measure.
Your clients pull you into their world. Because your clients see and hear you differently. Consequently, they differentiate you from the noise of commoditized professionalism they receive via Inboxes, webinars or training.
How do you liberate yourself from today’s noise to take your invited and trusted seat at the leadership table, tomorrow?
Become Your Clients’ Professional True North By Understanding Your Professional Purpose.
Ever notice that job descriptions or design specifications never have a section titled: Become A Professional True North? All you read is a description of expectations about deliverables, quotas and KPIs. And while professional core competencies are key to meeting those expected outcomes, the path is not necessarily linear. Or easy or even obvious.
At some point, there are unanticipated problems to solve and hard calls to make. Can you be trusted to use your professional voice to propose sometimes unpopular pathways? Or do you consistently play it small and defer to noisier, yet less qualified, colleagues?
Are you an order-taker or innovator? Do you create cost or drive revenue? Will you be a risk-taker or risk-averse on behalf of better serving clients?
Or is your professional purpose just all about meeting your own needs? Period.
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How You Purposefully and Consistently Solve Problems is Key to Your Professional True North.
Consistently delivering on your professional True North becomes your professional hallmark. When that happens, you rise above all the other professional noise. Thus, you become that trusted and sought-after beacon of light on your clients’ business horizon.
So before you become even more overwhelmed by everyone else’s noise and overwhelm, take a moment to Pause. Rediscover the value you always bring to your employers’, colleagues’ and clients’ tables, time after time. Regardless of your current job function, project team or client mix. No matter what you design, sell, manage or maintain.
Ultimately, Your Professional True North retains clients who place their trust in your purpose.
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I am a refreshingly extroverted STEM professional and left-brain thinker specializing in professional innovation, cross-functional leadership and client retention. I catalyze professionals to translate across communication and collaboration disconnects. Become more professionally visible, cross-functionally relevant and strategically valuable to your organizations. Better serve each other first so you better serve your clients together. One millimeter at a time. My One Millimeter Mindset™ virtual and in-person speaking programs leverage Voice of the Customer design methodology and storytelling to move individuals, teams, departments and organizations one millimeter beyond yesterday’s tools and today’s professional comfort zones My playbook of cross-functional collaboration, Do YOU Mean Business? is available on Amazon.com. Contact me here.
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