Leverage your education - #3

Suggestion #3 - Implementation

It is time for implementation. This is Nike time. Just do it. This is where many fall down on using new ideas and concepts. They are exposed to an idea. They like it. They think it over... and then nothing happens. A short time later the idea is long forgotten. The key points are lost and the timeliness has faded away.

I always mention, in my live presentations, the 48 hour rule of barber and cosmetology education... that is to say... If you are exposed to something you like to think you can use, an idea or technical skill, you have 48 hours to put it into use or it is lost. The sooner you try it, the better chance you have to get it right and to make it a part of our regular practices and techniques.

Some if my execution tips include:

Test it. Try the idea on a non paying customer.
Train it. Be sure your team members are all on board with the idea.
Go slow. Do not spring the idea on all clients or customers or team members all at once. Guinea pig it along to be sure you have it "right"
Develop it. Have procedures to be sure you are to get the results you are after.

Remember, it is better to do it and to do it wrong than not to do it at all. You will never know unless you try.

A few good quotes to reflect upon in the area of go for it:

You miss 100% of the shots you do not take - Wayne Gretzgy

It is better to try and fail than never to have tried.

If not now, when?

I have not failed. I have just identified over 100 ways that do not work. - Thomas Edison

The definition of insanity is to do the same things over and over and to expect the results to be different.

The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do the things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

Now, stop reading and get busy implementing that great new idea.