It’s more important now more than ever to be in a community and maintain connections as the world continues to navigate through the changes brought upon by the pandemic and adapt to the ‘new normal’ way of business. Being in a community of business professionals is one way to help you adapt to the ‘new normal’. A community will help you figure out how you can grow not just your business but yourself as a business owner.
Here are 5 benefits of community for entrepreneurs:
Get Fresh Ideas
Your community can be an excellent source of new perspectives and ideas to help you in your business.
Exchanging information on challenges, tips of the trade, experiences, and goals is a key benefit of networking because it allows you to gain new insights that you may not have otherwise thought of.
Learning New Business Skills
A great action that can yield some forward-thinking achievement in your community group is to learn new business skills together. One way to do this is to highlight the accomplishments of one or more members at your meetings.
While you can and should read about many tips online, it helps to hear experiences from the pros, and from your peers, understanding that the only real way to find out for sure what works for you is to try the new ideas and information you find out from your community and apply the suggestions in your own life and business.
Develop Long-lasting Personal Relationships
The goal of being in a community is to develop and nurture professional relationships, but some of the strongest and most long-standing friendships are born from work connections.
Building a successful business takes a lot of time and drive, so it’s good to have a network of friends and associates to draw energy from and keep you going. By surrounding yourself with people who share a similar drive and ambition, you are more likely to move forward as a group.
Learn From the Safety of the Circle
It has long been known that coming together in a circle with like-minded people brings large amounts of joy, inspiration, validation, and healing.
As a community of like minded people who share their journey with us, we are able to assimilate and learn from them as close peers and friends. It reinforces our own experiences and helps us to become more resilient in our daily lives. The learning we get from the circle is a lot stronger and deeper than learning on our own, as we get the mirror validation from others.
Get Through Tough Times, Easier and Faster
When we have tough times, struggles and confusion in our lives, it’s our inner circle that can help us get through it – and this is where a community is so important. As an entrepreneur or business owner the path can sometimes be very lonely or bleak, and we need people around us to support us.
By having the close community to lean upon in our tough times, we can use the strength of their support to buffer us and lift us up and help us through with support, advice, words and love. This enables us to get through the tough times quicker and easier than if we were on our own.
6 Star Business Community
We have been privileged to help create the 6 Star Business Community where we get the opportunity to be bring together people from across the globe who are united by their purpose in life and desire to create a bigger impact in what they do. The 6 Star Business Community hosts events to connect people and get their inspired impact missions out to the world faster, in collaboration, and stronger. We know that together we can achieve so much more, and we are here to do that.
If you’d like to learn more about the 6 Star Business Community, go here – www.community.6star.business
