Today I want to share a concept with you that I usually reserve for my paying clients. It’s growth mapping.
Growth mapping is not just about understanding your current position; it’s about charting a purposeful path to leverage your skills and expertise for monetary gain. Consider your growth map, your strategic blueprint, detailing each step needed to scale not just your business, but your personal brand and leadership capabilities. It encompasses the essence of progression—personal, professional, and organizational.
Know Your Location – Plan Your Destination
The first step in monetizing your skills is to clearly define your starting point and your desired end point. Then we take your plane to a 30,000 feet view and scan the horizon. In this phase, granularity is not the focus; rather, it’s about pinpointing your current expertise level and the market’s need for it. This overview helps you to plot a precise course, akin to an aviator setting coordinates from one airport to another, ensuring a direct and efficient trajectory towards your financial objectives.
Mapping vs. Strategy
While the growth map outlines your overarching monetization journey, the strategies are the individual tactics you will employ to achieve financial results. Once your destination is clear, the map informs the sequence and the blend of strategies needed. Say your expertise lies in digital marketing; your strategies might involve enhancing your social media presence, improving SEO, generating captivating content, and harnessing the power of advertising platforms. The map maintains the course, and the strategies propel you forward.
Be Deliberate – Stop Reacting
A key obstacle in monetizing expertise is the tendency to react rather than respond. Many get swept up in the current of day-to-day urgencies, losing sight of their financial goals. The power lies in crafting your day with intention, aligning each action with a strategic approach detailed in your growth map. By shifting from a reactive to a proactive mindset, you will move consistently towards monetizing your skills, with each deliberate strategy bringing you closer to your financial aspirations.
Understanding and implementing growth mapping is a dynamic process that converts your unique abilities into profitable ventures. This blueprint is your guiding light, illuminating the path from where you are to where you aspire to be, financially and professionally. With clarity of purpose and a steadfast commitment to your growth map, the question is not if, but when you will reach your destination of monetizing your skills and expertise.
At the Growth Architect, my goal is to help you develop a plan that will give you the growth map you need to help you reach your goals. If you want to learn more about creating a growth map, watch my video, and contact me when you are ready to develop your growth strategy!
Let’s grow!
Beate
Beate Chelette is The Growth Architect & Founder of The Women’s Code, and provides visionaries and leaders with strategies, blueprints and results-oriented, tangible tools and techniques that give clear steps to improve business systems, strengthen leadership skills and teams so that you can scale your impact.
A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, Beate bootstrapped her passion for photography into a highly successful global business and eventually sold it to Bill Gates in a multimillion-dollar deal. She is amongst the “Top 100 Global Thought Leaders” by PeopleHum and “One of 50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneurs” by HuffPost.
Recent clients include Amazon, Reckitt (the maker of Lysol), Chevron, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, the Women’s Legislative Caucus of California Cal State University Dominguez Hills, Shelter Inc., Mental Health First Aid and thousands of small businesses.
Beate is the author of the #1 International Amazon Bestseller “Happy Woman Happy World – How to Go From Overwhelmed to Awesome” –a book that corporate trainer and best-selling author Brian Tracy calls “a handbook for every woman who wants health, success and a fulfilling career.”
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