Leadership Skills Training – Four simple steps to creating spectacular leaders

On April 11, 2010, in Uncategorized, by Debi Talbert

An effective leadership program for your network marketing opportunity is designed to help your team develop skills in communication, leadership, problem solving, critical thinking, and human relations.

Just follow these four tips for developing a leader in your downline:

1. A important factor when you start to develop your leader in your multi-level marketing group is making sure that you select learning activities that are interactive and thought provoking. The reason why this is important is because you are working with a business partner. If you don’t select learning activities that are interactive and thought provoking,  then you run the risk of appearing more like a boss than a partner.

2. Another important consideration for creating a leader in your downline is to create group activities.  It’s critical that you encourage your team to work together because this will encourage communication and help develop problem solving skills. If you make sure that you create small groups with those that volunteer, then you’ll be fine.

3. You don’t have to personally manage these small groups in order to develop the leader within your downline. All you need to do is create the concept or idea for the group, ask for the volunteers and make sure that you coordinate a way for them to get started.

4. Instead of complicating your leadership development efforts by trying to know all the answers yourself and telling them to your downline, try it this way: know where to point the developing leader to so they can find the answers and then let them develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. In fact, if you learn how to point instead of have all the answers,  then you will find that your new leader in your team will be able to easily duplicate the same behavior.

So if you really want to develop the leader within your network marketing organization, follow these tips to training your team and creating the leaders within your MLM opportunity.

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Zero divided by Zero = Zero

On January 27, 2010, in Learning By Doing, by Debi Talbert

I am passionate about empowering those who are looking for a hand up, not a hand out. The direction our current President would like to lead our country dose not sit well with me. I am truly appreciate of the fact that I am still able to say that.

One of the ways I empower people is via education so that the individual can do some critical thinking; ask questions, think about the answer, ask more questions if necessary. With the end goal being to lead to an informed decision.

Maybe this story I read over at Glen Meakem’s Success Through Leadership will help you begin to do some critical thinking.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that President Obama’s socialism way of thinking worked, and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

So the professor decided to try out an experiment on this class. He informed the students that all grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and now would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the third test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased because bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. The entire class failed – to their great surprise by the way!

Although this is a story for illustration purposes. Image what would happen if this small size experiment took place in your child’s classroom.

I believe ultimately the great equalizer plan will fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when the reward is taken away, no one will try or want to succeed.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Roger

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