Shift Your Mindset: Prioritize People Skills

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Body Language Attraction -The Science of People with Vanessa Van Edwards

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The speaker highlights a common challenge among contractors: often, they are not naturally 'people-oriented.' He argues that if one can learn complex technical skills like framing a house, rebuilding an engine, or operating heavy machinery, then one can absolutely learn people skills. The crucial message is to 'shift your thinking' and understand that the quality of your interaction with a customer is often as, if not more, important than the quality of the work itself. He reinforces the saying, 'It's not what you know—it's who you know,' emphasizing that 'people skills' are what truly make more money. This encourages a shift in focus from purely technical expertise to interpersonal effectiveness.

Goal: Understand the paramount importance of people skills over purely technical skills in long-term business success.

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us but more important I've said this time and time again as contractors a lot of times we're not people oriented and I want to drive this message home to you that you need to shift your thinking you need to actually understand that what you do on a customer's job to them is not all always as important as your interaction with the customer it's not about the quality of the work you do as much as it is the quality of the interaction with the customer that's part of understanding body language that's part of the science of signing a deal and what I'm actually talking about is future projects so once you get involved in a project once you're working with the customer you need to understand that you need to make that customer fall in love with you as a contractor not with you as your project they they soon forget about it if you do a great countertop installation or landscaping job pretty soon the weeds grow over it the counter gets cluttered they never see your craftsmanship anymore but they always remember how you made them feel and there's other little

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