Being #productive under #lockdown.

Here in Greece, the lockdown is already for some weeks. Here are some things you can do to improve your skills while inside! The links to the offers: Cardone U https://gc.grantcardone.com/cudeal3 Linkedin Learning https://www.linkedin.com/learning/ Google classes https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalgarage/course/digital-marketing ⚠️ Boost your immune system! https://www.zinzino.com/2006369632 📬 Επικοινωνήστε μαζί μου εδώ: https://bizman.gr/epikoinwnia/ 📬 🎁Δείτε τις προσφορές μας εδώ: https://bizman.gr/product-category/prosfores/ 🚗Δείτε περισσότερα για την εκπαίδευση εδώ: https://bizman.gr/ekpaideusi-pwlisewn/ ⚠️Ο καλύτερος τρόπος να μου στείλετε DM: @yiannis.miliatsis :https://www.instagram.com/yiannis.miliatsis/ 🎟Δείτε επόμενα σεμινάριά μας εδώ: https://bizman.gr/bizman-calendar/ 📅Στείλτε μου τις ερωτήσεις σας για να σας τις απαντήσω σε επόμενα βίντεο σχετικά με: ✅Πωλήσεις ✅Παραγωγικότητα ✅Αυτοβελτίωση 🧩Διαβάστε και προωθήστε δωρεάν ποιοτικά άρθρα: https://bizman.gr/blog/ ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ #εκπαίδευση #πωλήσεις #επιτυχία

Hard work and self belief!

Probably the best example of this is my 18 month writting, blogging and video spree! In this time I wrote 3 books (2 of which are published) about 200 blog posts on bizman.gr 50 videos, 4 online courses and about 2000 social media posts. 

All of this action made it possible for me to make bizman.gr my main job, and be quite recognized in Greece for sales and productivity training! 

So if you want success, believe in your self and put on the hard work which is required! There are no short cuts guys!

Good luck to everyone!

The grass is greener...?

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The 4 personality types intro.

Talking every day to a lot of people, you quickly realize that you cannot communicate the same way with every one and expect great results. Each and every person is different and must be treated in a different way. 

The first time I realized this was when I started teaching martial arts. I was trying to be the best teacher I could be, and even though my physical skills were great, my communication skills needed some work. You see some of my students understood me better when I was talking to them from a distance, some when I was correcting their stance with my hands and others when I was a bit more strict with them. Others wanted a more relaxed environment to learn. 

So looking at behavior models I found the character model from Hippocrates of the 4 personality types which led me to the DISC profiling model, as a more current and complete solution. Now DISC comes from the 4 personalities that it describes

Dominant

Influencer 

Careful

Stable

This model is amazing and you can find whole courses dedicated to it in their page. I strongly recommend to dig a little deeper to it. From their own page I will give you the benefits of their disc profiling model:

"DiSC profiles help you and your team:

Increase your self-knowledge: how you respond to conflict, what motivates you, what causes you stress, and how you solve problems

Improve working relationships by recognizing the communication needs of team members

Facilitate better teamwork and teach productive conflict

Develop stronger sales skills by identifying and responding to customer styles

Manage more effectively by understanding the dispositions and priorities of employees and team members"

The system basically categorizes behaviors as open and closed, and task oriented and people oriented. Now, we people are not just one of those personality types because we kinda have them all inside us. But one of those 4 is more evident in our behavior. Also sometimes during the course of our lives, we transition from one personality type to another. 

We will dig a bir deeper in these personality types in another article. I use them in my sales training here in Greece and it is an amazing solution for effective communication. 

Very inspirational video!

My book is traveling!

And being sold now on Barnes and Noble and Fish pond! So happy about this. A book in sales coaching written in Greek that is now global, is truly something I did not expect when I was writing it a year back... I have also been in Life Coaching now and getting my 3rd book ready for next year!

Listen Loudly!

Put away your phone, focus and try to understand! If you don't understand ASK! Just listen loudly to the person you are talking to and stop thinking about what to answer...listen loudly to understand. The rest will be easy!

Your most valuable asset.

You can't manage time. You cannot manage 5 minutes and end up with 8. Time just passes and as a resource it's truly your most valuable. We all have 24 hours and what we do with them makes the difference between a life of meaning and a meaningless life.

Take Steemit for example. When I think about the hours I have invested in Facebook and Twitter and other social media, only to be treated like a commodity and a resource myself, it makes me angry and kinda depressed. But in here, even the smallest reward on curation or authorship has me excited. Not about the monetary result, even though I have seen some amazing stories of monetary rewards here, but mostly about the feeling that your content produced value.

In my blog at www.bizman.gr  I have produced more than 600 articles. That is a lot of writing! And it has served me really great over the past years. This platform though has taken me to another place, it has pushed me to produce more quality content and to get in touch with more people that do just that and not meaningless post everything that comes their way. Plus it's an amazing opportunity for me to practice my English even more!

So thank you fellow Steemians for this platform and the opportunity to finally invest my most valuable resource to something better!

Getting Things Done

GTD is a productivity system that truly sets your mind free for creative thinking! Any Steemian or DTuber out there using it?

I have been using GTD for the past 3 years and, even though I have fallen of the gtd wagon numerous times, most of my projects move forward rapidly and without me feeling overwhelmed or anxious about them.

The main concept is to dump everything in your mind in a trusted system (I use evernote) and free up your mind and psych for more creative thinking. This works brilliantly if you trust the process and the system (which comes about months after you start) and soon becomes second nature! Check out David Allen's work in Amazon and his blog for more info!

I will also post some videos explaining the main concepts of the methodology and also feel free to ask about it and connect!

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The small things...

I think it was Markus Aurilius that said "We fought with lions, only to be eaten by mosquitos" or something like that. In our daily grind we often lose the big picture and waste too much time in the small stuff.

Now, in my 40s, I often see old friends that where once filled with dreams and plans now to be bitter task oriented just-pay-the-bills middle aged men. I can't blame them, I understand them. It is so easy to get sucked in the daily grind.

The thing that kept me going is small steps (or even huge ones) EVERY DAY towards my dreams. Seeing most of them come true and feeding on that emotion of "You can make things happen!" if you truly give yourself time to focus on the daily things that will get you to your goals!

So do not let the small stuff make you a small person!

Read my other posts

Never, ever, ever give up...

Information consumes attention.

Give time to yourself to gather energy

For a long time I could not understand my energy cycles. Whenever I felt I was low on energy (usually a week in seven weeks period) I thought I could fight through it, which always resulted in taking another week to recover.

Now I understand that this is my energy cycle, I embrace it and lay a bit lower that week. This gives me room to do what is necessary, not over extend my self, and be really productive the other weeks!

Lately I am trying to do the same for my daily routine. Lay of the notifications, or the phone for some period of the day, sleep a little more (I used to get up at 5:30, now its 6:15 and I go a bit earlier in bed) and

DO MORE CREATIVE THAN REACTIVE WORK!

What about you? What are any tricks you can share about your daily routine?

A hard week in sales

We 've all been there... Having a bad week, where not only does your sales quota suffer, but everything in your life.

What can you do to control the damage you know you can't avoid?

Motivational pic #1

Sales Advice video #1

How not to lose time while selling.

One of the biggest issues in b2b sales is the difficulty in finding the person responsible for making a buying decision. Especially in b2b sales that are done door 2 door you end up with stacks of cards and contact information that, if you don't know how to process, leave you with little or no result. But that is not the only way you may be losing time while selling. Let's see some other ways and their solutions too!

The myth of realistic goals

I have come to hate the word “realistic” when it comes to goals because most of the times are based on what other people consider realistic for them. And if I listened to other people when talking about my goals I would not be where I am today…