Bragging or Owning It?
I often speak to groups on how to be effective in expressing your power. I talk to and coach these groups in owning their own brilliance and magnificence. Most of these people are accomplished, smart, educated entrepreneurs and small business owners. Most of them diminish who they are when they speak about themselves. That is a problem. If you are building a business, or growing your business, you must be able to get people interested in working with you. To do that, you must own your power, your brilliance, your accomplishments. We all know that people buy and work with people they know, trust and like. How can I trust you are good if you don’t own it? As I have done this talk, which is highly interactive with a couple of hundred people over the past year and when I work with my individual clients, I see this phenomenon of people downplaying their worth. So, I have inquired deeply into what gives, here?! What I have discovered are a couple of common threads. The first common thre...