Know Your Skills, Knowledge and Experience (Free Self-Assessment)
Know Your Skills, Knowledge and Experience (Free Self-Assessment)
If you’ve had experience, you have skills.
As you consider what to build as your first or your next business, consider what you have to offer. You may have already considered how to use the professional skills you’ve acquire in your lifetime. Or, if you are young, perhaps you feel you have little to offer.
If this is your thinking, let me contradict you.
No matter your age or your experience you can not have gotten this far in life without skills. You are reading this aren’t you?
If you’ve had experience, you have developed skills. Think about what you know and then think about what you can do. Explore your past paid jobs, volunteer roles, your hobbies, and any other areas where you have interests.
Make a list. Write it down and don’t listen to the negative self-talk that may be reminding you of what your 3rd grade teacher said about your math skills. Be your own champion and write down everything you can think of.
Once you’ve considered what you think you know. Do more. Imagine you are writing your autobiography for future generations and seek to portray yourself truthfully and in the best possible light. After all, you want your descendants to be proud of where they came from. Tell the story of your life experience honestly but use your skills and talents as the focal point.
Here are some specific skills you may recognize in yourself:
There is one more place to look for the gifts you will bring to your new business. But for now, take the time to sing your own praises. Make of list of all you know and all you can do. Your most satisfactory and successful business idea will build on these skills.
If you want more encouragement to help you recognize and acknowledge your skills and talents. Check out my book, , From Vision to Decision: A Self-Coaching Guide to Starting a New Business. Knowing what you have to offer is the key to starting a business that you love.