Were You Born With Sales Skills?

You can learn so much when you surround yourself with people who are better than you – Top Sales Performers, CEOs and even kids! Many of us are born as natural salespeople, leaders and great negotiators but something happens as we grow up - we become complacent and stop using those natural skills we are born with.

During the past month, I’ve spent time at my kid’s track and field meets and school trips. Surprisingly, going back to school was a great learning experience that generated a few ah-ha moments.

Kids Are Born Master Negotiators:
You offer to treat your kids to an ice cream and they somehow convince you to buy them the large size! Offer to buy them a new shirt and they provide you with a compelling reason why they need two shirts for the latest layering fashion look. So as adults, why do we lose or become afraid to continue to apply these same negotiation skills?

Kids Are Natural Cheerleaders:
It’s the final lap of the race and all the kids are cheering and encouraging the final runners to cross the finish line. As adults, why do we forget the importance of cheering for our team?

This summer have some fun being a kid again. Take yourself back to your youth and remember all those things you did, and skills you employed, that made you so successful and made your job and life so much fun!

And if you feel the need to go back to school and become re-acquainted with those necessary skills, watch for Teneo’s Back-to-School, Back to Business Programs this fall.

Have a splash this summer!