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You are a Comedian if…
You are fun-loving, outgoing, empathetic, risk-taking people-oriented, charming, affable, creative, enthusiastic, talkative, optimistic, trusting and highly influential characters. Like Action Heroes, Comedians are also instinctual, emotion-based or gut-based rather than information-based decision makers. However, where Action Heroes are more task-oriented, Comedians are more people-oriented. Building quality relationships, having fun, and attaining social recognition drive them. Comedians look for reasons to believe in, trust and like others. Like Action Heroes, they listen more attentively to headlines, highlights, the bottom line and the big picture rather than the details. They have trouble saying “No,” and have a tendency to over-promise. They struggle with detail, are known to become disorganized and have trouble managing their time effectively.
Your value in business
- You have creative problem solving ability. You are out-of-the-box thinkers. You can find new ways to look at problems and find solutions. You are resourceful and can find what has worked in other businesses and industries and synthesize a solution for their business.
- You are visionary; you see the big picture. You can look beyond the status quo and see what is possible. You are skilled in enrolling others in their vision of the future
- You build consensus and will work hard to avoid conflict and build powerful relationships with the franchisor and other franchisees.
- You are goal-oriented. You will work hard to attain their goals.
- You influence others. You know how to rally the troops and inspire others into committed action.
- You work well with others and function well on a team. Will work to build synergies and bond with franchisor’s employees.
- You are great communicators and easy to talk to, relate to. You know how to make customers and employees feel right at home. You powerful build life long relationships with customers and employees.
- You are optimistic and put forward positive energy. You maintain a healthy can-do attitude in the face of adversity.
- You are trusting and can create trust in customers and employees.
- You are outgoing and exhibit mastery in sales and marketing. You are natural born salespeople and promoters. You aren’t afraid of getting out into the community and telling others why you should be doing business with them. You know how to drive sales.
- You make work and shopping fun for employees and customers. Their energy is contagious.
- Good customer service skills. You know how to keep customers satisfied and coming back.
- Democratic manager, good at soliciting feedback. You will work to create a positive experience for clients and customers.
- Entrepreneurial and a risk-taker. You aren’t afraid to spend money to achieve their objectives.
- Quick to make decisions or to implement.
- Likes change and moves fast. Can get much done in a short period of time.
- High degree of confidence in own abilities.
- Keeps one eye on the bottom-line of the business.
What will kill you if you aren’t careful
- You move quickly and don’t always think about the total impact of your actions before you take them. You are a “run out in traffic before you look both ways” decision maker which can cost you precious money and time. You need to learn how to solicit feedback from the franchise support staff so you don’t get flattened in traffic.
- You may resist following processes, which can dramatically increase your risk in business. You would rather be unrestricted in your movements to create a result. This will make it difficult for the franchisor to be able to support you properly as you would rather create your own system.
- You seldom do the same thing twice. You are so creative; you are constantly inventing new ways to serve your customers. You run the risk of changing the winning formula, making yourself less effective. You need to learn how to create a business rhythm.
- You form strong opinions and resist checking out perceptions against the facts. You just assume you are right and then take off.
- You are very trusting and people may take advantage of you.
- You are optimistic and may overlook information which may indicate a problem. Therefore you miss opportunities to head off problems before they occur. You can confuse “feeling good” with creating great results.
- You don’t always say everything that is on your mind in order to avoid a conflict. Tendency to hold back “negative” information from people who can help you.
- You make “gut-based” or “feelings-based” decisions and may dismiss facts if facts contrast with “feelings.” Doesn’t always check opinions against facts.
- You will go off on tangents and waste time. You are so creative that you can lose your focus.
- You are probably highly disorganized and typically weak with details and financial numbers. Your motto is “Data Schmata! Let’s go sell!”
- You know how to spend money and may struggle containing costs.
- You may have a tendency to focus on the top line (revenues) and ignore the bottom line (cash flow).
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