“Leaders are born, not created,” true… maybe.
Strong leadership skills are taught and nurtured just like many other capabilities. Perhaps your company has not done a good job creating effective leadership development programs. This article gives you the most important leadership aspects to grow your business.
This article is also useful if you are the leader of your own creative business.
Throughout my coaching programs, I stress the importance of keeping your team members involved. Building a team means you keep recruits responsive, engaged, and energetic about the business.
Above all, this principle is the most important aspect to a successful business. Even more important, I believe, than recruiting.
Why?
You can recruit thousands of team members. You can spend all day, every day recruiting. But if those members lose interest and quit, then you are spending your time in vain.
I encourage you to recruit with the end goal of supporting your team. And this goes for as many people you sign up (small or large numbers).
Leadership Development: Host Live Team Trainings
There is a certain level of fear when you realize you have just sponsored a team member. Now it is up to you to teach them how to be successful. In fact, this fear is what keeps many people from being successful in their business. They refuse to learn how to train other team members. I have heard the excuse “How can I teach someone when I am not successful yet myself?” The best response I give? Get over the fear. Every leader once started exactly where you are now! Leaders had to step up into a role they may not have been comfortable with at that moment.
Leaders look to build a performance driven, direct sales team that delivers results. Plain and simple.
The only way to achieve this goal is to start hosting live team trainings every week. It is not enough to send your new recruits to the weekly company call, or to send them to their back office. They need you! There are some amazing (and free) live video services that you can use to host your own live trainings. I encourage you to get online today and find a service that suits your needs.
Training your own team will be a huge factor in developing your leadership skills.
Once you achieve a weekly training schedule, I encourage you to teach your up and coming leaders. Teaching your down line leaders to train will prove invaluable to your whole organization.
Here is an example of a problem that live trainings will solve:
You have just sponsored a person onto your team. But, they were mistaken and thought they could ‘get rich’ by signing up and not working. Live trainings teach them how to work without forcing them to do anything more than “show up”.
Your basic responsibility as team leader is to support individual team members. A one-on-one relationship recognizes and encourages good performance. Its principle objectives are improving well-being, resolving problems, and developing the team member.
Your end goal is to have a personal relationship with each team member. But not to become so overwhelmed that you have no time left to keep building your personal business.
Solution:
Weekly live trainings. As the leader, you must be available to have training for at least a half hour every week. This will include question and answer time. Every week your team will recognize that you are there to support them. The team grows when new members can join the training and support already in place.
As the leader (at ANY level) you have a responsibility to assist and develop team members. Remember, first you are a trainer and teacher. As leader, counseling your team members is necessary to keep them motivated and expanding.
Leadership Development: Maintain a strong personal business, a large team, and still enjoy life!
Being the leader of your team is going to come with some adjustments on your part.
One of the largest adjustments you are going to make is to your mentality. The only person responsible for your success is you. The only way to be successful is to have a successful attitude. Your attitude makes all the difference to the survival and success of your team. Your business, and team success depends on your mentality.
Leadership Development Questionnaire:
1. As the leader of my team, do I have a passion for the products?
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2. Do I have passion for the business opportunity? What has this business opportunity given me in my life that I did not have before?
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3. Does my charisma and joy for the business overshadow any stress, time commitment, and unforeseen obstacles I will face while supporting my team?
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