Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 75 | Read Aina's 157 other Ask SC answers

Communication is the key to your success here in SFI. Proper and timely communication required between you and your PSAs/CSAs. Working as team, helping each other by communicating to your downlines or uplines. Anything bad, communicate it to your Upline Team Leaders and anything good/that make them feel good, communicate it to your downlines.

Among ways/avenues for you communicate are;

1. Phone if you are privileged to their contact number/mobile no.- direct and you can offer
your assistance personally.
2. SFI's IM Chat – check your genealogy to see their ‘gold’ bubble, to indicate that they are
online. Good for personal coaching.
3. SFI Team Mail – a once a week mail to be sent to PSAs/CSAs or both.
4. E-mail – you should be able to write to them if the e-mail address given is valid.
5. Google chat (G-Talk) or hangouts - direct communication and you are able to schedule
meetings.
6. Skype - good for tele-conferencing between team members.
7. SFI Stream Post - you can do it daily but 3 days recommended , in order not to spam.
8. SFI Forum – open participation by all affiliates, sharing and getting additional info are
plenty.
9. Social Media - Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, MySpace etc - line of
communication are wide open, for you to establish rapport, getting their trust and building
your team together.

Sponsors and Co-Sponsors may apply or adopt different way of communication in order to convey the message to his or her team. Again, how effective these communication are, entirely depends on how clear the message was, if well received by the receiver and if any action taken, as per message or instruction/advice sent.

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Communication is the key to your success here in SFI. Proper and timely communication required between you and your PSAs/CSAs. Working as team, helping each other by communicating to your downlines or uplines. Anything bad, communicate it to your Upline Team Leaders and anything good/that make them feel good, communicate it to your downlines.

Among ways/avenues for you communicate are;

1. Phone if you are privileged to their contact number/mobile no.- direct and you can
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 22 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

The best way to communicate with my team is when they’re on-line. As soon as I see the yellow light comes on under their profile, I would initiate a chat.

It’s instant and friendly, and we can discuss informally whatever issue that my team is having.

Some may like communicating thru the social network, but there’s no privacy in it, so I prefer the SFIM anytime.

Apart from SFIM, the other effective way to communicate is through the weekly group mail, or referring them to my Leadership Page, but doing both is like walking on a one-way street, no guarantee of a response.

So SFIM is the best, and you have a record of your conversation that you can read and helps to refresh your memory.

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The best way to communicate with my team is when they’re on-line. As soon as I see the yellow light comes on under their profile, I would initiate a chat.

It’s instant and friendly, and we can discuss informally whatever issue that my team is having.

Some may like communicating thru the social network, but there’s no privacy in it, so I prefer the SFIM anytime.

Apart from SFIM, the other effective way to communicate is through the weekly group mail, or referring
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Anton's 25 other Ask SC answers

There are actually many ways. Because each person is different and from their own culture, time zone and speaks their own language I believe we must get creative with out communication.
Of course E-cards are a great way to pass along a quick tip, welcome or offering congratulations when you great new team members or check your mover's VP ledger. I try to keep a translation page open so that I can communicate in their language.
Skype is a great way to communicate with team members who speak your language.

Genealogy is a great way to send group tips in specific languages to targeted generation, levels or type of team member be it PSA's or CSA's.

Social media is a great way to communicate as well as network. What we do can be emulated buy our team, such as posting a vendors TripleClicks item for commission and congratulating a team member on advancement winnings and success. With different time zones, I find this an awesome way to communicate.

Good old fashioned email tend to be a common way for my affiliates to contact me as well. Again, I try to use translation pages to make it easier on the affiliate to understand offering my favorite link I use so they can use it themselves.
For a large group of team members there are meeting sights you pay money monthly for and some are now free though limited. This is a great way to bring people onto your sight and teach them what you do that makes you successful. Team members can chat with you and ask question live or be muted until after your presentation.
Some people make You Tube presentations for their team members. This is great but limited to the language you speak. But I have been known to send some of my team members to You Tube to find a presentation in their language about a certain program SFI provides.
Finally there's texting and telephone calls. Time zone's make this one challenging for some.
Your comfort zone and theirs will ultimately decide what form you use and when.

I hope this helps!


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There are actually many ways. Because each person is different and from their own culture, time zone and speaks their own language I believe we must get creative with out communication.
Of course E-cards are a great way to pass along a quick tip, welcome or offering congratulations when you great new team members or check your mover's VP ledger. I try to keep a translation page open so that I can communicate in their language.
Skype is a great way to communicate with team members who speak
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Affiliate since: 10/07/2014, Power Rank: 252 | Read Alvin's 86 other Ask SC answers

The best way to communicate with our teams is to first use all of the available resources found at the Affiliate Center such as eCards, CSA PSA and Genealogy Mailers.

First we want to understand the areas our team members are needing help with.

Before sending out these communication messages or mailings, it is suggested that we review the individual Ledgers and find out which areas are most common in either case of training, or recognition.

It is very important to know where our individual team members stand before sending out group mailings if we wish to address the entire team. In these cases where the individual needs more training it is best to use the eCards, and use the group mailers when all members hold the same interests in common for training or recognition.

The best way to communicate with our teams is to remain relevant to the needs the group, and also as in case of addressing the individual the group should not be addressed when an individual is having issues or problems.

The only time we should be sharing individual information to the group, is when the information is relevant for training and recognition purposes.
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The best way to communicate with our teams is to first use all of the available resources found at the Affiliate Center such as eCards, CSA PSA and Genealogy Mailers.

First we want to understand the areas our team members are needing help with.

Before sending out these communication messages or mailings, it is suggested that we review the individual Ledgers and find out which areas are most common in either case of training, or recognition.

It is very important
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 45 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Having effective communication skills is the key to good leadership. When you communicate well with your team, it helps eliminate misunderstandings and can encourage a healthy and peaceful atmosphere towards establishing good relationship within your organization. Efficient communication with your team will also let you do your function effectively as a Team Leader in supporting and training them.

Before we go into the most effective way to communicate with your team one should take consideration the following points:

- SFI is a networking business with millions of affiliates scattered all over the world.

You may have team members coming from Asia, Africa, North/South America, Australia, and Europe etc; therefore there are some cultural differences that should be considered in an effort to optimize communications between you as a Team Leader and your team. An effective communication strategy begins with the understanding of different cultures and backgrounds. A basic understanding of cultural diversity is the key to effective cross-cultural communications.

- You’re communicating with individuals and groups in your team whose first language, does not match your own.

It is therefore important that when you communicate across cultures practicing patience is a must and increasing your knowledge and understanding about the different cultural background of your team will help you in the long run towards establishing good relationship within your organization.

- Be mindful of the time zone

If you’re trying to organize a webinar, be aware of the time zone differences. As a Team Leader, you’ll need to find out the appropriate time for everyone in your team when it is possible for them to participate.

What is the most effective way to communicate with your team?

There are many ways to communicate effectively with your team. Whether you use open meeting, social media like Facebook, Emails, One on One and SFI communication tools such as Team Talk, Stream Posts, PSA/CSA Mailer and Genealogy Group Mailer; this will be dependent on your preference, personality and circumstances. The most effective way for me might be ineffective for you.

Here are a few communications approaches that will help you effectively reach your team members and encourage behaviors that advance your SFI business strategy and improve your results:

- Keep the message simple and clear

The core of your message should establish relevance with your team members in a way that makes them care more about their SFI business and about their role in making their own business successful. It should be at the focus of all of your communications, a simple and inspiring message that is easy to relate to and understand.

- Inspire, Educate and Reinforce

Your messages need to be customized and sequenced based on their purpose. I recommend using an Inspire/Educate/Reinforce strategy to map and deliver your messages.

Inspire your team members by sharing significant accomplishment (E365 Champion, achieving TLs, etc) of your organization or when introducing a new initiative that relates to your marketing strategy. Whether you’re looking to build optimism, change focus, instill curiosity, or prepare your team members for future decisions, you’ll have more impact if you stir some emotion and create a lasting memory.

Educate your team members by sharing your marketing strategy and plans. You can increase their knowledge base by guiding them in applying SFI tools and resources. It is important for these messages to be delivered through dialogues (use SFI Team Talk, Stream Posts, SFI IM, SFI Forum) rather than monologues, where your team members can build to their own conclusions and feel ownership in how to implement.

Reinforce – Explaining the connection between your SFI business purpose and its strategy – and between that strategy and its implementation – once is not sufficient. These reinforcing messages need to come in a variety of tactics, channels, and experiences. Ultimately, they serve to immerse your team members in important content and give them the knowledge to confidently connect to the strategy of your organization. Recognize and reward individuals and teams who come up with smart solutions and positive change.

- Share your Experience

Facts and figures won’t be remembered but telling your stories and experiences will. Make use of storytelling to help your team members understand the relevance of your strategy and real life examples of progress and shortfalls in venturing your SFI business.

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Having effective communication skills is the key to good leadership. When you communicate well with your team, it helps eliminate misunderstandings and can encourage a healthy and peaceful atmosphere towards establishing good relationship within your organization. Efficient communication with your team will also let you do your function effectively as a Team Leader in supporting and training them.

Before we go into the most effective way to communicate with your team one should take consideration
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2011, Power Rank: 10 | Read BABU's 113 other Ask SC answers

Dear Friend,

If you ask me the importance of communication, let me say like this, words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

In modern times, we communicate with others through various modes. Nevertheless, the most effective way of communication and it should be is still the one to one meeting and the personal interaction. During our hectic schedule and due to various other factors, it won’t be possible for us to be in personal touch with others always. If that is the case, we can rely on other methods of communication to have an effective interaction.

In SFI, our Team consists of Affiliates from all over the world and it is next to impossible to meet each and every one personally so we can rely on other possible ways to make it realistic and result oriented. I will narrate some of the effective ways through which we can attain the desired results and success for us and for our Team as well.

1) Once the concerned get enrolled in to your Team, you can inspire them to be in touch with you through constant and regular emails.

2) You can prompt your team to read your timely and weekly support messages and stream posts.

3) If your team members are active in popular social networking sites, you can take them as your friends so that they will feel more comfortable to be in touch with their Sponsor, i.e, YOU.

4) In certain inevitable cases, if you think, some of your team members need more of your attention toward their career growth in SFI, you can even allow them to be in touch with you through various Live Messengers.

I think, all the above can be experimented and I am sure, you will really feel the pleasant difference once you taste the success through these effective ways of communication.

Before I conclude, let me suggest one more thing. It is really important to communicate with your Team by using suitable, apt, polite and articulate words to guide and make them successful in the system without embarrassing or frustrating the lot. You can change your world by changing your words and remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. Communication, the human connection is the key to personal and career success.

I hope, my above explanation will provide you some kind of help to progress further in the system.

Wish you great success in SFI.

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Dear Friend,

If you ask me the importance of communication, let me say like this, words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

In modern times, we communicate with others through various modes. Nevertheless, the most
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Do you mean "Most Effective" in terms of being sure to make contact when you want to, or "Most Effective" in terms of passing on information clearly? In the first case, you can usually count on being able to send an e-mail to anyone who has whitelisted you, and you can contact them by phone if they've listed that information, but Team Mail is the most reliable way to contact active affiliates. If you're trying to communicate with your WHOLE team, there's always the Genealogy mailing.

However, if you can get your team on Skype, Yahoo, or some other software that handles web-conferencing, and pass on information to all of them, you can have a great question-and-answer session where you can talk directly to them, direct them to websites where they can promote, and even, with the aid of the right plug-ins, RECORD these meetings so that you can host them on YouTube or otherwise provide them as long-standing information. It may be hard to do, but it's ideal for passing along information effectively.
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Do you mean "Most Effective" in terms of being sure to make contact when you want to, or "Most Effective" in terms of passing on information clearly? In the first case, you can usually count on being able to send an e-mail to anyone who has whitelisted you, and you can contact them by phone if they've listed that information, but Team Mail is the most reliable way to contact active affiliates. If you're trying to communicate with your WHOLE team, there's always the Genealogy
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Using stream tab, we can send tips to our team members. We can send motivational speech of great personalities to inspire team members.

We can send customised e-mails to each active/inactive affiliates in enabling them to grow in SFI.

We can aso send team mail through Genealogy tab regarding latest news, effective tips leader feels important for his team members.

Participating in forum, answering different types of question provides a cutting edge to a leader. Affiliates may somehow comes across the answer given by their upline. Quality of answer and voting rank help to feel the subordinate regarding the in-depth knowledge of his/her upline.

Participating in Ask SC is one of the method of increasing self knowledge as well as to build up a good team.
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Using stream tab, we can send tips to our team members. We can send motivational speech of great personalities to inspire team members.

We can send customised e-mails to each active/inactive affiliates in enabling them to grow in SFI.

We can aso send team mail through Genealogy tab regarding latest news, effective tips leader feels important for his team members.

Participating in forum, answering different types of question provides a cutting edge to a leader. Affiliates
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Affiliate since: 07/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Juana's 44 other Ask SC answers

Hello my dear affiliate,

If most of your team comes from your own friend or nearest member of your family, the most effective way is to have a group meeting so that you can discuss one by one all the most important thing to start, because in any business to start is the hardest thing. Personal get together is so good because you can point personally what they will do for their first day to start.

But if most of your team comes from different countries, sending your team mails or group mailing is okey, in that way you can keep them in touch and my doing it weekly you will earn versapoints too. That is why we have weekly action to take, it is the most effective way to communicate with our team.

If they are serious to pursue what they have started, good for you, but if they become member just by mere clicking our site, most remain inactive, whatever we do with them. But the best thing is dont loose hope, always talk to them and send your letter of encouragement.

Good luck!
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Hello my dear affiliate,

If most of your team comes from your own friend or nearest member of your family, the most effective way is to have a group meeting so that you can discuss one by one all the most important thing to start, because in any business to start is the hardest thing. Personal get together is so good because you can point personally what they will do for their first day to start.

But if most of your team comes from different countries, sending your team mails
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Affiliate since: 02/24/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Derek's 210 other Ask SC answers

The most effective way to communicate with your team will depend on the programs both you and they have available to communicate with.

The most obvious way is by email, as all your affiliates will have an email address that they signed up with. This way you can send out team mails. You also have the details for individual email addresses for your team so if you just want to contact one person you can.

I make sure all my team have my Skype details and I encourage them to contact me that way. This can have problems due to time differences, so it may be quite hard to set a time when two or more are available to meet up.

My team also have my telephone number, but again the time differences can play a big part here.

If you live close enough to any of your team members you can also arrange face to face meetings.
There are many messaging and conference facilities available on the internet that you can make use of.

The important thing is that you keep in touch with your team. The method you use will depend on what facilities you have available.

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The most effective way to communicate with your team will depend on the programs both you and they have available to communicate with.

The most obvious way is by email, as all your affiliates will have an email address that they signed up with. This way you can send out team mails. You also have the details for individual email addresses for your team so if you just want to contact one person you can.

I make sure all my team have my Skype details and I encourage them to contact
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