Training – Do you put in the hard yards?

Training will make you a better party planner.

Today I was listening to a tele-seminar presented by the DSWA (the Direct Selling Woman’s Alliance), and I gleaned the most wonderful insight. Training is different than coaching.

Training is telling someone how to do something. Coaching is asking someone how they would get something done.

The analogy used was for a sporting team. A sports team has a coach. The coach gives the team a vision (winning) and challenges each player to go do what they’ve been training to do. Training is the work you do before the game. Trainers work with athletes to hone their skills. To teach them new ones. To get their fitness to a level where, when the game begins, they can perform at their peak.

As Party Planners, we must take the responsibility to participate in training. Training is offered by our uplines, by our companies, and by industry associations (like the DSWA). We  also better ourselves by reading books, listening to CDs, and attending workshops.

The magic is that it’s all under our control. We will perform better if we train.

It is up to us to get ourselves in good shape. That way we perform at our peak performance when it’s game time. And if develop our skills to reach the peak performance , we will be easier to inspire and motivate when we involve a coach.

Imagine how successful we’d all be if we took responsibility for our own training and then asked for coaching to improve our performance. It takes both.

Be bold and make it a great day!

Wendy Lloyd Curley is an expert on profitable party planning.
www.profitablepartyplan.com