Article Title: Using Your Skills to Work From Home
Whether you are a Mom who is working a full-time career, or a Stay-At-Home Mom who has not been a part of the workforce for years, you have great skills that can help you be successful with working at home. Many people shy away from working from home because they worry about balancing their job outside of the home with a home business, or are concerned about juggling kids’ schedules with working from home. As a Career Mom, you have skills that you utilize in your job, daily, as well as juggle the needs of a family at home. This could include scheduling, computer skills, management of both co-workers and time. You may even have specialized skills in writing, editing, sales, customer service, management, accounting, human resources, marketing and communication to name just a few. This does not account for the application of these and the skills below that you apply to your family life. Stay-At-Home Moms can also possess similar skills that they utilize daily with their children and family’s care and not even realize it. Moms are constantly using negotiation and communication skills with working through children and family problems; using management skills to keep a family’s hectic schedule running smoothly; writing skills to assist family members with homework, or responding to emails; accounting skills to manage a family budget; and planning skills for weekly scheduling, family events and management of a household. In either case, Moms are using amazing talents that can be put to use in a home business. Here are a few that you may be aware of and some that you many not even realize are areas of ability: Computer/Technology Skills: In today’s world of technology, most people have basic computer skills that enable them to use a computer, work processing programs and navigate the internet. This includes typing, using search engines and writing, or answering emails. Most home business opportunities have you utilizing the internet to promote your business online. Management Skills: This could include managing only you and your home business, or managing a small team of business partners who you also assist with working at home (depending upon if the home business you choose has a recruitment portion with the home business). As a Career Mom you are managing either people at your job-site, (even if it is just corresponding with co-workers) or working with employees as a manager. As a Stay-At-Home Mom you are managing the inter-workings of family dynamics and can put the same communication skills to work in smoothing out family difficulties. Many companies, too, who offer home business opportunities can have specialized training to assist you in managing your home business and growing team, successfully. Telecommunication Skills: Do you enjoy talking to people? Are you talking with people in different areas at work to help with getting the daily job done? Are you comfortable talking on the phone? Most home businesses have you talking with people either telling
them about your company, your product, or the service that you offer. If you are uncomfortable on the phone, or don’t know where to start, many home business companies offer scripts to use to help you get started. Writing Skills: You write emails, you help with children’s homework, you create memos, or work-related documents, newsletters (have you created a Christmas newsletter in the past?), help with Church, School, or Sport flyers and maybe even written your own article, book or piece of literature. You utilize writing skills more often than you know and can easily apply them to creating emails to customers, prospects, or for ezines and small text ads to advertise your home business. Customer Service Skills: Many home business opportunities have you working with people who want a product, or have a need for the service you are offering. As a Career Mom, or Stay-At-Home Mom you are utilizing negotiation and communication skills on a daily basis and can apply your same empathy, enjoyment with working with others, or helpful attitude to your home business. Sales Skills: With working at home, many home businesses may have you utilizing sales skills. This sometimes puts people off of working at home. But, many Moms are saleswomen and don’t even know it. As a Career Mom, you may already be in a job that has you using sales skills on a daily basis. For Stay-At-Home Moms, you find ways to convince your child to eat his vegetables, or assist your daughter in making the right decision on what to wear to school, or helping your spouse understand why you need a new vacuum. Many times, sales skills can simply be giving information to another person and helping them with deciding if that product, opportunity, or service is what is best for them.
When you put all these skills together you may find that whatever roll you are in, either as a Career Mom looking to work from home in order to spend more time with family, or as a Stay-At-Home Mom who wants to contribute to the family income, you can make a home business work for you. If your motivation for working at home is strong enough, you will find that you can tap into your talents to make your home business successful. A Mom has more strengths and expertise than she is given credit for and it is what she does with those abilities that makes her an amazing woman.
Article by: Paige Lombardi is a former Award-Winning Teacher, who now works from home in order to be home with her two wonderful boys and supplement the family income. She enjoys helping other people save money on their healthcare needs with the Health Programs that her company provides and assists others with working at home. You can learn more at www.AtHomeCareerInfo.com