Using Your Job to Help People!

June 21st, 2008          Email This Post       

Your job is really about helping people. You are providing a valuable service, e.g. if you are in graphic designer, you are providing the creativity, knowledge, time, and experience. Your pay is a result of you helping someone else. The more you really help them, the more they will willingly pay.

If you want to help people more…

• Learn about organizing, managing, creative thinking, negotiating, and presenting.
• Learn how to manage yourself better, so that you can spend more time directly on things that help others.
• Learn more about your field – follow the great new techniques and tools
• Ask: what should I know to help more?
• Share your knowledge! Start a blog, send out a newsletter, or write a book.
• Gather information they want to know. Someone that designs wedding invitations can gather things their clients should know before hiring a wedding planner/booking a hall/sending invitations by asking past clients "What 3 things would you tell someone about to start what you did?” and summarizing it as crisply as possible.
• Spend more time understanding what your client needs. "Seek first to understand…" Listen. What do they need, what is bothering them? Help them with their problems.
• Put yourself in their shoes. Is there any hassle they have to go through that you can reduce?
• Keep asking yourself – what can I do to help more?

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