How did I become us?

12.1.2023
Janne Kolehmainen

Me & customers 

As a younger salesman, I was very result-oriented and focused on my own performance. I was diligent in entering deliverables into the CRM system and making sure that the actions and the results were certainly there for all to see. I received positive feedback on the activity, a positive approach, a results-oriented approach and, above all, a customer-oriented mindset. I enjoyed my job, but as a former individualvery competitive and relentless as an athlete - also in civil life.  The perfect sales person?  

Me + us & customers

Career oli get on with it. That's what I thought too - after all, I was proactive and proactive. The next step in his career was, by nature, a first-person position and more responsibility and power. As a good salesman, Ili natural and fascinating go to run by excellent sales management. The idea was to build winning teams around a winning strategy. That's what I did. The goals were set ambitiously and the aim was also to leave a handprint in the market - to make a difference! Rainmakers! We achieved excellent sales results as a team (at least enough), but too often the rest of the organisation failed to keep up. In the management team, at least, I defended the views of sales and customers relentlessly. Often I just forgot listen to others and look bigger the big picture and continuity. I was an excellent sales manager?

Me & us & customers & fired

My matkaas a professional continued to move forward and power and responsibilityt grew, until someone else decided otherwise. I was no longer an important link, an indispensable and insightful long-term member of the management team. I reached a good understanding nk. ”gardening holidayfor” i.e. just in Finnish said got from fired. Believe it or not, it was the best thing that has ever happened to me as a person and as a professional. When I stuck my finger to the famous in a glass of water, and there was no hole left. And was se Famous glass half emptykin. We had to start again and think about what kind of person and I am a professional. I received excellent help from professionals ranging from an occupational psychologist to headhunters up to. We started a journey into my professional identity and my own personal growth. Change is opportunity? 

New start & us & customers

This journey gained momentum when I decided that my life, and especially my working life, need not be a constant struggle for power, responsibility and glory. I deliberately took a ”step back” and learned a new way of helping customers (selling) and invested in my own personal skills by learning a new profession. Well, what me then I learned? I learned to share (power, responsibility and success), to work together issues within the team, to value diversity in thinking and to create win-win approaches (me vs. us vs. all of us).  

Us & Customers

Oh my gosh, what great people have come into my life and how educational and rewarding it has been. Great teams have been built, mutually beneficial for all parties cases over the last few years and on so many fronts. I have received in peace be the dumbest in the room, but the best part is se, that I dare to ask, listen and learn.  

More about us & customers

This win-win-win mindset and drive for continuous learning has enabled a phase of transition to entrepreneurial life. You can't achieve anything great on your own - let alone change. Now we invite to join us on our MTTC journey unafraid to win together and collaborate with fellow travellers who are hungry for international success stories for our clients and for all of us. Stephen R. Coveyn says: ”Interdependence is a higher value than independence” (The 7 habits of highly effective people) 

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