How I've Spent My Quarantine (so far)

How I’ve spent the last 90 days: 

• Watching kale grow (slowly)
• Waiting for spring to arrive in Maine (also slowly)
• Singing Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s in Need of Love Today” at the top of my lungs while painting over lime green paint at 2 am wondering..."Will the solitary Peaks Island police car show up and tell me to turn it down?" No. (My one interaction with them was when they slowed down and told me to call 911 if I saw a specific stray dog. Call 911 about a stray dog?)
• Expanding my capacity to talk out loud to myself.

Professionally, I’m supporting my clients through the many challenges they are facing in this upside down environment:

• employees working from home while supposedly teaching their children
• adjusting their business models when their plans change drastically in a day 
• moving through an avalanche of obstacles that challenge them  
• helping us all process what has been going on. 

I’ve explored what brings me joy in combination with what I see are gaps in the market where people need support. Sales has always been close to my heart and specifically supporting people to sell through building relationship, listening to people’s concerns and helping them. 
 
Looking at the prospect of 8 weeks in my house by myself (which I thought sounded like a very long time way back then!), I offered a course to the Maine Coaches Connection on Selling Your Services through Authentic Connection.
 
I know how I learned to sell my services. It took lots and lots of practice. It was also sitting around a table with my colleagues and learning with and from each other. I saw a lot of coaches and consultants struggling because they avoided sales, but they were good coaches or highly effective at whatever service they provided. I could see a need there.
 
I want to support people to sell services aligned with their gifts and talents so that the delivery of those services is completely fulfilling to them.
 
I offered the course for 8 weeks. Ten people showed up and generously engaged with me in my inquiry of how to not suffer in sales, but serve others, and learn to be natural promoting your services.
 
The experience has been not only healing (having come from an organizational environment where sales targets involved a lot of pressure and fear), but it helped me design a course to address where people get stopped in sales.
 
Here is what participants have said:
 
“Today was especially powerful for me. I really like the call to action…to put it out there and hear your experience sprinkled in! Thank you, Kerry. Your class may just be the lifeboat I need.”
 
“Kerry Walls is a master at helping people transform their often unconscious and unhelpful interpretations around sales. She has personally contributed deeply to my understanding of what service oriented sales really is and how to challenge my old thinking around it. I highly recommend working with Kerry to anyone who struggles with feeing authentic and being able to effectively sell your services.”
 
I’m exploring how to promote this course in an authentic way. I’m not a fan of how I see courses promoted on line: "earn oodles of money", "build a 7 figure income in two weeks", etc. These offerings set unrealistic expectations and maybe a limited number succeed. Many coaches and consultants, however, just want to get in the 6 figure range, contribute to others and build a successful business. 
 
I’m offering this course beginning September 8th. Find out more details here. Please share this information with those wanting to grow their business in this new world we’re in.
 
Stay well and stretch yourself into what calls you. Your contribution and gifts are needed now more than ever.