Successful Collaborations

Wednesday Saturday Inspiration

Today’s inspiration is all about helping you consider ways to turn competitive relationships into ones where collaboration is beneficial to all parties involved.

Successful Collaborations

Competition is draining …. but …. Collaboration is energizing and exhilarating!

Upward Action for Success ~ A Coaching Exercise

Identify your 3 biggest competitors.

Spend the time necessary to come up with 3 collaborative activities with each competitor that are beneficial for both you and the competitor. (e.g., workshops, charitable events sponsorship, etc.)  

This exercise is much easier if you have spent time identifying what is unique and special about your business and what differentiates your business from the competition.   It is EXTRA easy if you can articulate the difference in 30 seconds or less.

Evaluate each of the 9 possible collaborative efforts you identified in the previous step and select the one that is most exciting and speaks to your spirit.

Now, create an action plan to make it happen in early 2008!

If you need help with any aspect of this exercise, just give us a holla!  We are happy to support you as you identify fun and profitable collaborations designed to launch your business’ accelerated success.   At UpwardAction, we are experts at helping entrepreneurs identify their unique selling proposition!

Until next time … Take GREAT Care!

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