Received Value

How do you assess your time? I am often asked this question by clients. Will I get my money’s worth? A variable of the first question. When educating clients or hiring managers about the services you provide, are you clear and concise or are they left wondering whether or not they have made a good choice? Your answers declare who you are and your belief in what you do.

How do you assess your time? Are needs met and goals achieved? Have you solved an issue? Will your services fulfill the necessities of the client or hiring manager? The customer or candidate? Will it work? That is the final question: will it work? Increased business is the ultimate metric. Necessary people are hired and services are executed in a timely fashion. Does the service you provide ease the burden of your client or hiring manager?

The client or hiring manager should experience less stress because of your commitment, not more. Open lines of communication will ease in removing certain levels of stress. Additionally, will you save them money in the long run? Are you getting it done right the first time? Recognize that your job is to help them de-stress and enhance business.

Part of the value a service provider brings to an organization is allowing for greater focus and forward movement. When you fail to follow through, the boss/hiring manager/client is not only thinking about what he needs to get done but what you aren’t getting done. Think clearly about what your end of the bargain is. Are you fulfilling it?

When all of these things come together, when the service provider actually provides the required service, then and only then is the job fulfilled. Increased business, needs met, less stress, bargains met, focus achieved, work gets done. The list isn’t that difficult, nor is it too long. Make the list, check items off and the value will be there. Instead of it being perceived, it will be received.

by rayannethorn

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Failure IS an Option

Knowing when to ask for help is probably one of the most difficult abilities to master. It is never easy to say, “I need help.” For most people it is easier to say, “Can I help you?” We live in a society where we are told that we can have it all, but in order to have it all…, you have to be able to do it all. Not easy when time is divided between work, family, friends, school, church, activism, volunteering, promoting, blogging, commuting, birthday parties, baseball practice and games, rehearsals and performances, doctor’s visits for both family members and pets, yard work, laundry, paying bills, running errands…, the list is endless. really.

It helps to just know you need help. What is it? Admitting there is a problem is the first step to curing the problem. Yeah, right. Expectations are where the problem really lies. When you expect something of yourself or of someone else, there is great risk at being let down. So…, is the right avenue to lower our expectations? Or would it be better to learn acceptance and understand that everyone is fighting some kind of personal battle, everyone. No one is perfect, no one has it all under control, no one.

So, put on your armor daily, sharpen your sword, and face your jabberwocky with courage and the distinction that only you can.

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another

with no loss of enthusiasm.”
~Winston Churchill

Remember: failure can be valuable… If you do not risk failure, you risk growing and learning. The education of life is more costly and dear than a PhD.

So say “Ha!” to your greatest adversary: time. Take risks and find comfort knowing you don’t have to fight anyone else’s battle… just your own.

by rayannethorn