Inbound lead generation can be the difference between feeling powerless and confident in your indendent consulting business. In this episode, Melisa Liberman addresses the common challenge of feeling at the mercy of external factors and provides a framework for taking back control of your business results.
You’ll learn why consultants often feel powerless, how to identify where you’re making excuses, and get practical tools to shift into an ownership mindset. If you’ve been blaming external circumstances for your business results, this episode will help you regain control and create the outcomes you want.
- Understanding External Factors and Their Real Impact: External factors like economic conditions, seasonal timing, and industry limitations often feel like insurmountable barriers. Melisa explains why these perceived limitations are actually excuses that keep us from achieving our full potential, and how to shift from observation to action.
- The Brain’s Role in Business Results: Our brains are wired to seek evidence that supports our existing beliefs. Melisa breaks down how this natural tendency can work against us in business, and provides strategies for redirecting our thinking toward growth and possibility rather than limitation.
- The Power of 100% Responsibility: To create sustainable success, consultants must adopt a mindset of complete ownership over their results. Melisa introduces the 100% Responsibility Tool and demonstrates how to use it to transform challenges into opportunities for growth and innovation.
- Real-Life Examples of Taking Control: Melisa shares concrete examples of consultants who have succeeded despite challenging external circumstances, illustrating how mindset shifts and practical actions can overcome seemingly fixed limitations.
- Three Steps to Implement Control Today: Melisa provides a clear, actionable framework to help independent consultants take back control of their business results and create the outcomes they want, regardless of external circumstances.
What would it mean for your consulting business to feel fully in control of your results? Make sure to listen to episode 193 to find out.
đź”— Today’s Companion Resource is the Consultant’s Business Health Check Assessment. Take it at icassessment.com to establish your baseline and identify key areas for optimization.
What would it mean for your consulting business to feel fully in control of your results? Make sure to listen to episode 193 to find out.
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- Take the IC Business Health Assessment
- Discuss working with Melisa as your coach – Click here to schedule your consultation.
- Buy the book – Grow Your Consulting Business: The 14-Step Roadmap to Make Your Independent Consulting Goals a Reality
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