Your essence may well be the key to you but
But what you do with it is key to your success…
Michelle England trained with me in Colour Analysis about 5 years ago and then, madly, came back for Ladies’ Style and again for Men’s Image.
It was for Michelle that I wrote the original Tonal Taster script
A group of ladies from an accountants’ office in London decided that, instead of the usual ‘go out on the town after work’ ploy, they would say goodbye to one of their pregnant colleagues by having a colour workshop.
As it seemed incredibly silly for me to travel 150 miles to the Big Smoke when Michelle was just around the corner from their city office, I passed the work on to her.
The only problem was that the original invitation came to me on a Wednesday, Michelle agreed to the gig on the Thursday, and the actual event was due to take place on Friday, the very next day.
I suggested that she use the new tonal approach that I’d shown her on her Colour Analysis training course.
I’d come up with a simple way of demonstrating the concepts of colour to groups of potential clients without ending up telling everyone in the room what season they were.
In the olden days (!), we didn’t have the tonal methods so when we presented to ladies’ groups (and the like), we either told them everything about seasonal colour or we told them nothing.
- When you tell them everything, you believe (wrongly, as it happens) that no-one will ever book with you for a personal consultation
- When you tell them nothing, the audience aren’t likely to book with you at all. Now, I wonder why that could be…?
So, armed with the seeds of a great idea from my image mentor of the time, I devised the Tonal Taster – to give potential clients a ‘taste’ of what they would experience when they came for the full seasonal colour analysis.
At the Tonal Taster:
- there’s none of this silly ‘Now who would like to volunteer to come out to the front?’ business. When you do that, the majority of people in the audience are pretty fed up that THEY weren’t chosen – so they go home grumpy
- every single person in the room gets some really useful information about the colours that they look great in, so it’s much more inclusive – and everyone goes home happy
“So what do I do now?”
We’re great friends so Michelle felt quite able to give me a bit of an ear-bashing, “It’s all right for you. You devised the whole thing but I won’t be able to remember it all in the right order. So what do I do now?”
So I sat down on Thursday night at the computer and typed madly into the small hours. I emailed the resulting Tonal Taster script to Michelle which she practised (probably just as madly) on the Tube on her way to the workshop the next day!
What a trooper!
Was the workshop a success?
What a daft question. Of course it was. It always is when you step out of your comfort zone, push the boat out, and have a go. And that’s the absolute essence of Michelle.
