On a flight back from Tampa this week, the woman sitting next to me introduced herself as “a realtor disguised as a mother and a wife.”  Then she added that she also played cello. And a few minutes later, it came up that she knows a lot about opera.

I’ll bet a lot of her clients just see her as a realtor. But wouldn’t it bond her a bit more to the client — and more importantly, bond the client to her — if it turned out the client was a huge fan of classical music or had a son playing bass or were themselves fascinated by opera?

We often hide those parts of ourselves that are unique, especially when they don’t have an apparent, immediate connection to our outside role at work.

What are your unique “colors” — your gifts, talents, passions and past — that you keep hidden and how can you bring these out in subtle ways during a communications, consulting, or presentation skills experience to develop Velcro Communication™?

Find a low risk way to reveal one unique color in your spectrum …And on the flip side, find a way to learn about a unique color in one of your clients or customers…and then watch what happens.