Charmaine Hammond is an expert in collaboration, partnership and sponsorship. She helps entrepreneurs raise their dreams, launch their projects and make a bigger impact through the power of this untapped revenue source…collaboration and sponsorship.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Charmaine parents
When business started difficulties overcame:
“one of my biggest struggles was recognising the value that I brought to clients and charging for my services. In the first year I really struggled because I had to ask people to pay their bills for my mediation services and I lost a lot of money because of my discomfort with that. I had come from a government world and a nonprofit world where I always had a paycheck and it was always the same unless I worked overtime. And all of a sudden know everything I did had a dollar value attached to me. And so we ended up hiring someone to help me with this that could be sort of that layer between me and the client”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The E Myth: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Book by Patrick M. Lencioni
Favourite Quote:
- “Conflict does not improve with age”
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” Oscar Wilde
Recommended Online Resources:
- Learn all about the Thomas Kilmann Instrument TKI assessment directly from the person who co created it Dr Ralph H Kilmann
- MTI Measure of Financial Cost of Conflict – Mediation Training Institute
- Meditation resources on You Tube
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“stick with it when times get tough. I see so many people who have big dreams and their business can help so many people and make a big impact. And when times get hard, they give up easily or too soon. And there is an opportunity there for us to ask for help, to get a coach, to find somebody to collaborate with. But when it is important to you don’t give up because I think sometimes the regret is bigger than the pain you go through in that moment to keep things going. So, don’t give up too soon. Sometimes good ideas don’t pan out so we have to let go of things but just really doublecheck with yourself about giving up too easily”…[Listen for More]
More About Charmaine Hammond:
Raise a Dream Training & Consulting Inc
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers” African Proverb
Other Quotes From the Chat with Charmaine Hammond:
- “I certainly learned a lot about purpose and passion and struggle”
- “look for credentialing in the work that you do. And some people will write books as a form of credentialing to show that you are an expert. But really been able to show that you are an expert that was critical for the work that I was doing when I started my business”
- “one of the things that I learned partway through being a business owner was that it doesn’t have to be perfect. I think so many projects and initiatives and growth in my company got stalled or slow because I was so focused on making things perfect. So, I wouldn’t release a new program until it was absolutely perfect. But by then 10 other people in the community had come up with something similar. So, I discovered that it doesn’t have to be perfect it has to meet with our high standards and it has got to be awesome but perfect it doesn’t need to be”
- “one of the secrets to success is not going at it alone. Collaboration in business is really powerful. So, finding ways to work strategically, and I am not talking about affiliate type relationships in business I’m actually talking about good, solid, collaborative approaches business where you can bring on different partners”
- “there is so many opportunities for us in the world. At about competition is about showing up as your best version of you in everything you do”
- “it takes a team to raise a dream”
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