The "ASK" Approach - Why it is Important to You
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denise trifiletti
Denise Trifiletti, Founder of http://WomensCommunity.com ____________________________________________________________________ Visionary • Collaborator • Leader Denise Trifiletti founded http://WomensCommunity.com to help business women to GROW, personally and professionally, through the Power of Partnerships! After years of corporate sales and training success, she learning from sales and performance experts like Dr. Stephen Covey the secrets of her success. She left the corporate world and established Dynamic Destiny Partnerships (http://www.D2Partners.com) to help others to grow their sales. Her clients became mostly women who were not only struggling to GROW their sales and business, but also struggling, juggling, and attempting to do it all! Denise is a speaker and author of Create the Business Breakthrough you Want, Brian Tracy, Mark Victor Hansen, et al. Mission Publishing 2004. By denise trifiletti
Published on 02/27/2008
ASK is an acronym for Attitude, Skills and Knowledge. From my experience, these are the three most important components of success in life and business. In this article I discuss attitude, skills and knowledge from different perspectives.
The ASK Model
I often get asked about our "ASK" approach to assessing partnerships that can be beneficial personally and professionally. Below are some ideas for you to consider.
What to "ASK" yourself before you seek out partnerships:
First: Assess yourself:
What are my strengths in my Attitude, Skills and Knowledge?
What do I need, to help myself or my business GROW?
What things in my business am I currently doing, but have no skills, knowledge or interest in doing?
Second: Assess your Client Partnerships:
What is your systematic and ongoing process for communications, including a written feedback survey for measuring your results and continuous improvement?
How often, and what do you do, to continuously ask and solve your client's business problems?
How often do you actually and continuously solve their business problems so you become a "value-added" partner, and your clients become raving fans"?
What do you do to earn the right to continuously ask for testimonials, and referrals?
Third: Assess your best "Power Partners":
Who are the people that refer you the most business now? Who else can?
= Who has the same target market as you?
= Who offers complimentary products/services to what you offer?
= Who offers the same products/services as you but to a different market?
What is the easiest, most efficient and effective way to connect with these "Power Partners"? Is it via your current networking groups or efforts, or elsewhere and/or in a different way?
What do you do when you connect with them? What is the agenda and the tangible results of your meeting?
Just give me a call at 828-295-3369 or drop me a note at denise@womenscommunity.com with any questions you have, or if you would like to explore how I can help you.
Denise Trifiletti
What to "ASK" yourself before you seek out partnerships:
First: Assess yourself:
What are my strengths in my Attitude, Skills and Knowledge?
What do I need, to help myself or my business GROW?
What things in my business am I currently doing, but have no skills, knowledge or interest in doing?
Second: Assess your Client Partnerships:
What is your systematic and ongoing process for communications, including a written feedback survey for measuring your results and continuous improvement?
How often, and what do you do, to continuously ask and solve your client's business problems?
How often do you actually and continuously solve their business problems so you become a "value-added" partner, and your clients become raving fans"?
What do you do to earn the right to continuously ask for testimonials, and referrals?
Third: Assess your best "Power Partners":
Who are the people that refer you the most business now? Who else can?
= Who has the same target market as you?
= Who offers complimentary products/services to what you offer?
= Who offers the same products/services as you but to a different market?
What is the easiest, most efficient and effective way to connect with these "Power Partners"? Is it via your current networking groups or efforts, or elsewhere and/or in a different way?
What do you do when you connect with them? What is the agenda and the tangible results of your meeting?
Just give me a call at 828-295-3369 or drop me a note at denise@womenscommunity.com with any questions you have, or if you would like to explore how I can help you.
Denise Trifiletti