What makes you happy? 
What makes you successful?
According to the two books featured in our sidebar widgets, the answer to these two questions are related. If you are doing something that you are good at, you are likely to enjoy yourself and be successful. If you don't spend your time doing what you are good at, you spend your time fixing your shortcomings.
How do you discover your unique talents? Is there a more direct way of discovering your top talents and putting them to use other than by trial and error?
StrengthFinders 2.0 offers an assessment of your strengths, along with strategies for applying them. The latest book by Gallup, is the second generation of the evaluation tool developed in 2001. The original was on bestseller lists for five years; the new one offers an even more effective assessment.
The second website widget directs you to Benson Smith and Tony Rutigliano's Discover Your Sales Strengths: How the World's Greatest Salespeople Develop Winning Careers. Top salespeople succeed by figuring out what they do best and then finding how and where they can exercise their talents. This book leads its readers to an on-line assessment at www.strengthsfinder.com to gauge whether they fit their current situation by taking a quiz based on a 12-step "hierarchy of employee engagement." This book not only helps top sellers excel but offers direction to sales managers who try to keep top sellers motivated.
At the Prescott Group, we are, of course, committed to help agents in the real estate universal, our clients, and our virtual assistance staff find the best niche for themselves early in their careers based on their strengths. These books are a great way to figure all this out for just a few dollars each. Once you have them on your shelf, they are a good reference to help get you back on track when you realize you have taken on non-productive tasks that blur your focus.
If you have kids - perhaps vacationing, soap opera watching kids - who you would like to gently nudge toward thinking about their futures, these books and the assessments are good conversation starters. Hopefully, you will be part of the conversation, but even if they conduct it on MySpace with their friends, at least you've gotten them thinking!
Once you buy the book(s) and take the assessment(s), we will help you figure out what the results mean. In our dual roles as agents and as managers of The Prescott Group, we are always on the lookout for good talent. The Prescott Group was founded on the premise that agents make more money when they are prospecting, selling, and closing than when they mired in the details of running a business. The important-but-less-dollar-producing tasks like database management, marketing, and even blogging can be turned over to creative administrative professionals. Our growing staff of Virtual Assistants are specialists in the areas of your business that "someone" must do - from calling to data entry to listing presentations to website design. When we hire them (and you hire us), we ascertain that they are working in areas they like and where their talents are. This assures us (and you) that when they get an assignment, it will be completed on time, within budget, and with zeal.
But, we digress! Our virtual assistance services will help you, but so will the books, the assessments, and the extra help we offer you in interpreting them. Check them out today!
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