The Horrible Decision Maker
Guess what, if you are a can-do guy that makes horrible decisions, you'll be fired too, but not before you have waisted a bunch of time and money.
Buck the System
Systems don’t always work. Sometimes systems are broken and a complete makeover is necessary before it kills your business. Sometimes years of experience can be [...]
Level 5 Leadership
A smart team starts with its leader. If a team is failing, you typically have to look no further than its leader. In his book [...]
Are You a Leader?
Predicting a team member’s success in business or sales is an inexact science at best. It can be difficult to determine who will have it what it takes and who will not. In a Harvard Business Review article by author Daniel Goleman, he says, “…identifying individuals with the “right stuff” to be leaders is more art than science."
Smart Leaders Give Freedom
You should find the right people who can be motivated by excellence and are excited to make your business better. These people don’t work just for more money, but they work first for the satisfaction of accomplishment and the ability to be creative. Although this may seem obvious, few businesses make the right personnel decisions. Many so called leaders say they want self-motivated people who will work for the betterment of the business, but in reality, many business people have too fragile of egos to have a team member have a contrasting opinion. They are really looking for obedience to their word, not creativity and independence.
Insist on Personal Growth
Personal independence and self-reliance is a sustaining need for your business to grow. If you rob your team members of their ability to figure out their own problems, how will they ever become leaders themselves? How can they ever have the strength to grow if you want to take a vacation once in a while? Worst of all, how will you ever have time to spend time with the people who are willing to be more self-reliant?
Self-Reliance, Captains of our Fate
Any true business leader understands that lasting profitability and growth comes from empowering people to become self-reliant. Having a bunch of robots that won’t function without exact instructions becomes exhausting.
Building a Smarter Team
A team that understands people and knows how to bond with prospects will always outperform the team that memorizes their presentation. Building a smart and nimble team can take time, but if you want a business that can withstand hard times and flourish in good times, you must be bullheaded with your determination to train and mentor people to think and listen instead of just memorizing facts.
Challenge Your People
When we focus on creating networking studs we will have an elite corp of superstars that overcome obstacles by themselves without being dependant on a stretched upline.
MLM Superstar Traits
If you believe in your product or service, you should passionately push, but do so in a manner that does not offend in the process. This takes practice, study and time for most people.
Network Marketers Should Be Courageous
Understand the new leverage in today's network marketing. Live your story, yes live your story. Give me happiness, not ingredient lists. Give me joy, not promises of riches I don't really believe in. Give me a way to feel younger, with people that build me into greatness not scare me into submission. Give me life, don't take it away from me. Don't tell me you care about how much money I make and then threaten me if I think the opportunity is better else where. Give your people a reason to stay other than the lottery ticket chance of $10,000 a month. LIVE your story.
Holding Proteges Accountable
Not all new networkers will take accountability seriously. Some networkers will think they have all the answers right when they start, but we know what happens that that person after a couple months, they end up coming back for help or quitting. Some networkers simply do not have the stomach to do what it takes on a consistent basis. However, the most hungry future leaders will do what it takes to succeed and they will attack any obstacle in front of them to achieve success. These networker proteges will only hold themselves accountable to a person that is where they want to be and who is truly doing what he or she is preaching.
The Need for Mentors In Network Marketing
Mentors are 600 percent more likely to succeed. Proteges that have mentors are 500 percent more likely to succeed.
Continually Inventing
“Every step you take should increase, not decrease, the breadth of your opportunities.” ~ Andy Tuck […]
Success Answers – Leadership Generosity
Question - What are leadership characteristics needed in network marketing to succeed? Answer - Leadership principles are the same in network marketing as they are [...]
Advice from an Incurable Wise-Ass
I subscribe to an online newsletter called the SalesLadder and I get weekly information from a writer Marc Cenedella. He has some great stuff, you [...]
Success Answers – Culture of Leadership
Question: I am working my tail off to get people in my group. I am wearing down, will it ever get better? […]