Our sponsor is our mentor. We joined SFI thanks to his efforts. He spent time and money in a place where we found the opportunity and joined as an Affiliate. Regardless of his qualities and effectiveness as a sponsor, we owe him the opportunity to be part of SFI.
Our co-sponsor is a substitute mentor. The SFI Leadership model is smart enough to realize that one single mentor may not be all knowledgeable, always available and always responsive to our needs. Hence, very wisely the co-sponsorship was put in place to afford affiliates with business relationships that may benefif our leadership growth, guide us through the training process and shorten our learning curve.
For these reasons, it is highly beneficial to have competent, knowledgeable of responsive sponsors and co-sponsors.
An awesome sponsor will be in permanent contact with his PSAs, answer their questions, direct them to the activities that will help them grow their business in shorter periods of time. He will organize contests among his time members to motivate them in making progress and reaching milestones in their business growth. He will allocate Tcredits and gift certificates to help his PSAs in their financial investments. He will re-assign PSAs to senior team members to help them build their own teams. It is noteworthy that the re-assigned affiliates should have had at least 600 VP in the last 90 days, for the sponsor to be rewarded with 10 action VP per re-assignment. This is to stress quality.
An effective co-sponsor will periodically, at least once a week, communicate with his co-sponsored affiliates (CSAs). He will support them in their efforts, answer their questions, recognize them when they reach milestones or get rewards such as Daily Grand wins and the like. A good co-sponsor will help us and lift us, make us feel good being part of the SFI Family.
There is very valid reasons for having the SFI Co-Sponsorship institution. If our sponsor is not responsive, the co-sponsor may play a major role and be a substitute sponsor.
When an affiliate has both an awesome sponsor and an active co-sponsor, he/she will likely do well, benefiting from their advice, guidance, material support, and overall team work.
Whoever, it is also possible to find oneself with neither an awesome sponsor nor a knowledgeable, responsive co-sponsor.
That is actually my case. I, personally, have outranked both my sponsor and co-sponsor. My sponsor is actually inactive. My co-sponsor has changed once, at least. In both cases, I only get a weekly team mail from my co-sponsor. The questions and issues he/she is discussing often are not relevant to what confront me in my business building efforts. But, I do not hold that against anyone of them. I still rate them every month in a manner that does not penalize them.
In other words, it is highly beneficial to have good sponsor and co-sponsor. But, if an SFI affiliate find themselves without either, it should never be a deterrent to their success. True lasting success comes from within.
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Our sponsor is our mentor. We joined SFI thanks to his efforts. He spent time and money in a place where we found the opportunity and joined as an Affiliate. Regardless of his qualities and effectiveness as a sponsor, we owe him the opportunity to be part of SFI.
Our co-sponsor is a substitute mentor. The SFI Leadership model is smart enough to realize that one single mentor may not be all knowledgeable, always available and always responsive to our needs. Hence, very wisely the co-sponsorship
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