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Money Habitudes cards offer a different approach to quickly uncover ways people can support or sabotage themselves, their careers and their businesses. An easy 15-minute card sort can start an incredibly productive conversation with a

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Money Habitudes Card Deck

client or among a business group. Your clients will associate the cards with the familiar, enjoyable social entertainment of playing cards, and they will like manipulating the cards which allows them to  engage more readily, relax and talk more openly as the look at their business goals from another perspective.

The conversation will help you and your clients discover their Money Habitudes and can quickly identify the underlying influences which unknowingly impact whether they are likely to:
  • Be a success or failure when starting a business.
  • Take or avoid risks associated with advancing a career or business.
  • Gravitate to a particular type of job/career.
  • Stay in an unsatisfying job or career even when other options are available.
  • Bounce from one job to another.
  • Negotiate or won't charge enough for their work.
  • Bring a certain bias that could be in conflict with a business partner. (Click here to read more - an article by Syble Solomon featured in BizLife Magazine.)

Money Habitudes can impact the workplace in a number of ways. Consider possible implications of a strong dominant Security Habitude:
  • A CEO may choose others on her executive team who are as fiscally conservative and risk adverse as she is. They may not include others who can bring balance to their long-term planning.
  • An entrepreneur may avoid taking a loan and wait so long to save money necessary to invest in a business venture that the opportunity passes him by.

  • A business partner may put up roadblocks that limit expansion or improvement projects, explaining that maintaining what they have is more important than growth, in an effort to avoid change.

  • An employer may not spend money on anything that she doesn't view as "practical." This may mean the work environment is unpleasant and employees are not appropriately compensated. Employee dissatisfaction and turnover is high.

  • An employee may only apply for jobs that offer the most security or may stay in an unsatisfying, lower paid position rather than risk failing at a more demanding job.

The tables in the Money Habitudes Guide for Professionals provide more specific information about the ways habitudes are related to jobs and careers.

  
 
     What Other Business Owners and Consultants Are Saying About Money Habitudes...
     
They have sparked many ideas for our business. This is really a great tool!  - Kate A. Murphy, Principal, Frame 360, Columbus, Ohio

  
After using the cards myself, I now consider if money habitudes are a piece of the real issue when I’m working with a new client. One VP had a geographically dispersed team that was completely dysfunctional and didn't even know each other.  With a few questions, I was able to determine he was just cheap!  He never even considered spending the money to to bring his team together from around the country to meet and talk face-to-face. He was surprised at the productive outcomes once I convinced him to have them meet and how much better communications were by phone and email after the team had gotten to know each other. His penny pinching ways were actually costing the company more money in the long run.  - V.R., Consultant for a Manufacturing Company

  
A successful marketing director left the corporate world to start her own business but couldn't make a profit. Her dominant habitudes of "selfless" and "free spirit" were sabotaging her business. She had no boundaries for giving her work away to non-profits and friends. Although she was excellent at marketing herself, when working with a potential client, she didn't like talking about money. She lost business opportunities because clients weren't willing to contract with her without a realistic expectation of the costs. Using the cards helped us get to the heart of the problem and address it effectively.  - D.M., Life and Business Coach

  
…Money issues are inevitable. As in a marriage, by the time you start arguing it may be too late!  Be proactive…how well partners communicate about money can be the key predictor of whether a company will succeed. [Click here to read the entire article.]  - Syble Solomon, BizLife Magazine

  
 
   
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