I discovered a lot of business and life lessons in movies. While I dont get out much these days, and I rarely have occasion to kick back and watch them at home, I value the nuggets of wisdom that I take away from them. One night I actually put my feet up and watched Queen Latifahs movie beauty Shop. I missed about 20 minutes of the movie, between her walking out on her old job and starting her own business.

If this sounds familiar to you, it is time to change your mindset. To knock the dust off your current sales crack, here are some easy but helpful tips to move you into a proactive selling mode:

Copy-catting doesnt work. be true to YOU. No one said this would be easy. When Gina walked out, she jumped without a net. She knew she had the skills, she just had no plan. By staying unvarnished to herself, she worked it out. She set up shop in an area where the canyon was more affordable than the uber-salon she left. Even when the overhead and costs at opportunisms felt as rather it would all bury her, support from friends and family helped her to soldier on. She never, never, never evacuate. And neither should you.

Seek out internal elders for yourself and your team. If you are in a relatively large organization, there are probably people that you have heard of or have watched from a distance in admiration. Why not approach them to be a mentor to you and/or members of your team? be a silo buster. If your organization operates in a fragmented, highly departmentalized, siloed way, decide to be the silo buster. All these ideas can help you do this, but the point here is to make a conscious decision to network with the purpose of building relationships that will begin to break down these barriers. Create “lunch and learns”. Invite people from other departments with expertise your team or beat doesn`t have to come and share that information over lunch. This creates new learning opportunities for both sides and gives people a chance to get to know new people at the same time.

This ties back into Lesson #1 about being your authentic self. Gina knew that clients come and clients go, but her staff would stick by her through thick and thin, as long as she was prepared to do the same for them. If sticking to your determinate values costs you a customer, then trust me you are FAR better off without them. dont sweat the competition ” just keep your radar on. Gina focused on her family and her business. She didnt give a sniff as to what her old boss was up to, or how his business was doing. She didnt call up his customers and steal them even though he accused her of doing so. Even so, Gina kept her radar tuned in. She took note of THINGs that were said. She kept her ducks in a row and kept good records.

Start a league. It could be bridge, basketball, golf, croquet or any of a hundred other things. Find something of common interest to a broad number of people and get them playing after work or at cookout. When you`re playing you are getting to know people for more than just their position or knowledge, you are really “getting to know” them. This one may gain more time to form and maintain, but the networking value is tremendous.

Create bearings that snap your customers and fulfill their needs. Gina cooked up some homemade conditioner in her kitchen and seemly used it on her customers. She never made a fuss about her conditioner; she simply believed that her product would help her customers. THAT was what mattered to her. The ladies at her salon affectionately called it Hair Crack because customers kept coming back for more! They were addicted to it because they too believed in its ability to help their damaged hair. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we strive for as entrepreneurs having happy customers who keep coming back for more ” because they LOVE it and beLIEVE it can help them.

Create internal networking events. The Chamber of Commerce and other organizations everywhere have been doing this for years. Why can`t you create an internal event with the specific goal of getting people to know each other better?

Many of the other ideas on this list may be the platform or the “excuse” for such an contingency – but you can come up with many more that will harrow within your organization now that you are thinking about it! All of these ideas may not apply to your situation, but some of them will. For every idea I`ve shared I would guess you can think of five more. In the end, the most powerful key to implicit networking is to perfectly start doing it! As you build your internal network you will create benefits and opportunities for you, those you`re networking with, and for your team and colleagues. When you look at it this way you hopefully realize what a valuable investment time spent on building a larger and broader set of combinations inside of your company can be. Potential Pointer: The most overlooked opportunity to network is not out in the world, but right inside your organization. As a leader, or aspiring leader, when you mine the network and combinations within your company you help both yourself and your team create greater success!

What is the most successful and highest paying job nowadays? I really don’t know the answer to the previous question but I know the answer to that if we rewind this scenario from centuries ago. Would you like to have the highest paying and the most coveted job in the whole world? Aside from being the boss/ owner of a huge company are you dreaming of the possibility in being envied and being on top of everyone else?

The duty of a court painter is to render direct service to the royalties- providing family and self-portraits for them in any ocassion. Being a painter is a white-collar job during the past. Being a royal or court painter is one of the highest paying and the most coveted job of all. Being chosen by the royalty to commission their paintings is like being the White House’s official photographer now (although that post may not gain the amount of prestige as court painters do before).

Spain gave birth to Classical and Modernist artists of our times. This I believe is due to the rich cultural and historical significance of Spain in the world. Among Spain’s celebrated artists is Francisco de Goya, a Renaissance painter famous for his Court Paintings and Dark Artworks (latter years).

Francisco de Goya is a painter known to succumb to boring and sometimes carnival-ish subjects which are the Court and its inhabitants. During the latter years in his career he has been exposed to a controversy which led his immediate expulsion from court. His earliest and most successful years of being a painter is seen as a loyal Court Painter to the Royal Family of Spain. De Goya died a deaf man while still continuing what he started but painting on mostly dark subjects already.

A gallery will be shown to pay tribute to this great Spanish painter in Honolulu, Hawaii.

What is the most successful and highest paying job nowadays? I really don’t know the answer to the previous question but I know the answer to that if we rewind this scenario from centuries ago. Would you like to have the highest paying and the most coveted job in the whole world? Aside from being the boss/ owner of a huge company are you dreaming of the possibility in being envied and being on top of everyone else?

The duty of a court painter is to render direct service to the royalties- providing family and self-portraits for them in any ocassion. Being a painter is a white-collar job during the past. Being a royal or court painter is one of the highest paying and the most coveted job of all. Being chosen by the royalty to commission their paintings is like being the White House’s official photographer now (although that post may not gain the amount of prestige as court painters do before).

Spain gave birth to Classical and Modernist artists of our times. This I believe is due to the rich cultural and historical significance of Spain in the world. Among Spain’s celebrated artists is Francisco de Goya, a Renaissance painter famous for his Court Paintings and Dark Artworks (latter years).

Francisco de Goya is a painter known to succumb to boring and sometimes carnival-ish subjects which are the Court and its inhabitants. His earliest and most successful years of being a painter is seen as a loyal Court Painter to the Royal Family of Spain. During the latter years in his career he has been exposed to a controversy which led his immediate expulsion from court. De Goya died a deaf man while still continuing what he started but painting on mostly dark subjects already.

A gallery will be shown to pay tribute to this great Spanish painter in Honolulu, Hawaii.