Appreciate a Teacher
The collector mentor Challenge this week is to appreciate a teacher…it is Teacher Appreciation Week, after all.
What Is the collector mentor™ Challenge?
The collector mentor Challenge™ is a collector mentor™ and InsideARM.com initiative designed to help collectors unleash their full personal and professional potential. Each week a new challenge will be posted online. These short, weekly challenges will provide readers with actionable ideas to pursue, explore, and ponder in the week ahead.
Each challenge is broken down into three parts:
- The Lesson
- The Challenge
- The Reflection
While each individual challenge can be explored on a stand-alone or intermittent basis depending on reader preference, the ongoing series provides an opportunity for individuals and organizations to use the challenges in a systematic way as well. Collectors will have the option to chart their progress using The Challenge Scorecard™ and they can use The Challenge Journal™ to record their thoughts and experiences.
The challenges will cover a variety of topics including business and careers, personal growth, health, family and friends, fun, and personal finances. Each challenge will fall into one of the follow six categories:
- Physical Fitness & Health
- Wellness & Education
- Family & Home Life
- Spiritual & Ethical Concerns
- Social & Cultural Interests
- Financial & Career Planning
What’s in Your Dash?
This week your collector mentor challenge is to find at least 15 minutes of alone time to ask the question, “What will that little line between my date of birth and date of death mean when it is all said and done?”
collector mentor Challenge: Test Your Financial IQ
This week’s collector mentor Challenge: assess your financial intelligence.
Celebrate National Volunteer Week
Celebrate National Volunteer Week by finding an event which will use your unique gifts and abilities so that you can make a skills-based connection, rather than just volunteering randomly.
Lend a Helping Hand
This week your challenge is to think beyond yourself and reach out and extend a helping hand, inspired by a father that goes beyond what is normally expected to help his son.
Listen Up!
Spend a moment assessing your listening skills and make a point of practicing good listening habits in all of your interactions, including collection calls, meetings, and conversations on the home front.
Read a Good Book (or 104)
This week, you get to pick your challenge. But your choices all involve reading more books.
Expect Success
February is International Expect Success Month. And the challenge this week is to honor the mantra: “Expect Success, then work like there is no other option.”
Listen to What Isn’t Being Said
Ask any collection manager for a list of their collection secrets and without a doubt listening skills is always at the top. This week, your challenge is simple: Listen to what the consumer isn’t saying.
Pass it On
Oscar Wilde once said, “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” Your challenge this week is to pass your good advice on.