Episode 47, Never Underestimate Yourself!

Lisa Thal is an Author, Speaker, and Life Coach.  She wrote the book, "Three Word Meetings" for you.  A Simple Strategy to Engage, Inspire, and Empower Your Team.  Lisa helps provide fun and interesting 3-word sales topics for your next business meeting to get your sales team motivated and inspired. It is guaranteed to save you time and have your team more engaged during the sales meeting. Make an impact on those you lead by using three words!

In episode 47, we discuss how important it is for you to share your thoughts and vision.

 

 

Have you ever been told not to sell yourself short? We all know that doing so would mean that you were underestimating your abilities and that your confidence wouldn't be where it should be. Perhaps you developed this habit through time, and you were not even aware of it. Underestimating yourself may have developed early in your life. For example, you were not raising your hand in school if you knew the answers or being afraid to share your ideas with others at work or in sales meetings. Why because you may have the fear others would not like or approve of your concepts. So you sit back and let others speak up and share their ideas. Each time you give in to underestimating yourself, you are reinforcing the notion that you and your views are not good enough, that you're not capable enough.

 

How can you stop underestimating yourself? You start by reflecting on the times you did succeed. We all have something we have succeeded in doing. We all have succeeded in earning our first job. Yes, we were competing against others. I am sure there was something you shared that made the difference. If you're in sales, can you recall your first sale? Or better yet, the strategic ideas you created to get in front of the client for the first time. You can use these experiences to reinforce that you are capable of achieving great things.

 

Stop comparing yourself to other people. We each have our talents and abilities to offer. When you underestimate yourself, you limit your life experiences. You hold yourself back from accomplishing your goal, and you find reasons not to move forward. As a leader, creating an environment that encourages everyone to share their thoughts will give you access to some potentially fresh and powerful ideas. 

 

3 questions to encourage your team to share.

 

 

 

• How do you encourage others to share their ideas? Perhaps, Asking questions beginning with "What do you think?" will set the stage for your team to discover possible solutions, build confidence, and encourage them to think and share.
• Is there a platform you can create to tap into ideas from all those on your team?
• I encourage you to start by writing down one idea that could make a difference in your business? The one idea you have been thinking about and needs a little action behind it.

 

 

Just remember, never underestimate what you can accomplish in a day, a week or a year when you believe in yourself. Think and then have the courage to speak up. Our world needs your ideas and vision.