What did you have to stuff up in order to become an expert?
Some say our life journey is predefined. Some say we choose our life journey (with all it’s joys and adversities) in order to learn some lessons in this lifetime. Structured religions believe that what happens, happens for a reason.
What ever you believe in terms of this concept, your ultimate expertise is not necessarily a result of what you studied or were taught in school, it is the result of …
- sometimes your successes… but more than not your failings;
- sometimes your up times… but more than not your down times;
- sometimes your good decisions… but more than not your bad decisions!
Ironically, what we most offer to the world, personally and professionally, is what we have had to be challenged by ourselves. So embrace those experiences, but more importantly stand back and recognise what the big picture is for you – what is your ‘unique intelligence’, your ‘unique perspective’ on the world that you can use to support and pay forward to others?
Once you understand and acknowledge that unique intelligence, you can begin to focus on really understanding and articulating your ‘unique professional offering’, your ‘unique professional brand’ and your ‘unique professional contribution’…who you are and what you bring to the team or organisation….and you must ‘sell’ that internally within an organisation as well as externally to other organisations (depending on your current focus).
IQ, EQ, SQ and UQ?
Michelle
