Leadership is Different in Network Marketing
By Ed Ludbrook, Futurist, Leadership Specialist
Website: www.100percentinstitute.com
13 June 2008
As Napoleon Hill said ‘What man can conceive and believe, he can achieve’.
To lead people, even in the early stages of our business, you need to understand it and believe you can do it. Sound logical?
We need to put the HOW or WHY of Network Leadership to the side for the moment.
It’s more important you know WHAT of Network Leadership first.
The first point to that you must [must must] understand and believe is that leadership is different in Network Marketing than in any other sort of organisation.
Different to a leadership in companies, government, military, charities and even different from spiritual organisations.
The difference in situation, people, functions and objectives combine to create a different environment which requires slightly different beliefs, strategy and approaches than in these other leadership situations.
Over the next few days, think about the differences and realize that it is these differences that expand the potential of this business and direct your actions.
BECOME AWARE of differences as AWARENESS is the start of higher thinking and living.
Everyone can lead in Network Marketing. Network Marketing is different. Different types of people can succeed in this business. You just need to learn how.
Got it?!
Most people think they can’t lead people. It is a belief that they learnt when they were younger, consciously and subconsciously. It is a belief that ensures that they do not enjoy their full potential. YET you need to believe that. Everyone can lead in Network Marketing.
The facts:
In network marketing, leadership is based on your ability to become competent in:
• the ‘performance skills’ of retail and sponsor which everyone can do.
• coaching people to competence which everyone can learn how to do.
• developing network teams which everyone can do.
• developing a network structure within an organisation which everyone can do.
‘Everyone can do’,
100% Success, get it?!
Over the next few days I want you to think about what sort of person will become a leader in Network Marketing. Be honest with yourself.
What do you think they look like?
Race, sex, religion, height, weight, age, experience, etc, etc.
I am not talking about the superstar top leaders.
This programme is for the new team leaders.
The sort of people you want to fill your network.
The people you will rely on to create and maintain your residual income.
Yes, the sort of people that will be the basis of your success in Network Marketing!
Once you open your minds to think what sort of people you want to fill your network, it will help you discover the potential and enable you to tap into the real possibilities of this business.
Did you think about what sort of person can be a Network Leader? Race, sex, religion, height, weight, age, experience, etc, etc.
Duhhhhh
That was a trick!
Race, sex, religion, height, weight, age, experience, etc, etc. HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH LEADERSHIP IN NETWORK MARKETING!
It certainly does in the rest of society. We all know it shouldn’t matter yet it does. Analysis after analysis of leadership people in the English European worlds show that ‘tall, white, middle aged, married man’ is the leadership image that people have. This is not the image we want!
In fact, my thoughts are that we should leave all the ‘tall white men’ to the rest of the economy and just take our leaders from the rest!
That’s why I think you will smile at the images I want you to choose.
‘I am a new generation leader. I can lead all sorts of people’
This is not a COMMAND AND CONTROL form of leadership.
We have to lead by inspiration, trust, character, competence.
It’s all carrots and no stick.
Also we will have a very different sort of leader.
I don’t want the image of the traditional ‘corporate’ power leader.
I don’t want the stereotype image of the ‘white powerful male’.
Or they good looking power woman who dressed like the power leader male.
I don’t want stereotypes as all
I want the image to say
What you look like does not matter. No age, sex, colour, hair style, clothes, height, etc etc.
And thus it will say ‘who you are inside and what you do’ is all that matters
I want it to say
I am in charge yet I am quietly confident. I can get people to do things willingly.
I lead people through my character, our opportunity, my professionalism
This is not a normal corporate business
This is business when woman can lead
This is a global business
It has to say ‘I am confident, happy and in charge. I am a different modern image of leadership. The people behind me are in my team. They come from different worlds yet we will change our world together.’
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