Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

First of all, in communicating, find out the native language your team members is fluent in and when sending emails and messages to them, send them in both English and their native language. You can use Google Translate for this purpose.
In your email, ask the team member how he/she would like to communicate. Ask them if they are comfortable with English or whether they would like you to continue to translate your messages to them.
That’s a start. Now if you are not good at drafting messages and need help doing this, contact your Sponsor or your Co-Sponsor for assistance. They may be prepared to draft out some emails for you to use. If your Sponsor or CoSponsor is unavailable, then go to the Forum or to your A2A friends. There are many willing minds to help in this area of your business building.
There are many other ways you can support your team member. You can provide Gift Certificates or TCredits or put them in your Co-Op. These are all ways that you can support your team without too much communication if you are uncomfortable with it.

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First of all, in communicating, find out the native language your team members is fluent in and when sending emails and messages to them, send them in both English and their native language. You can use Google Translate for this purpose.
In your email, ask the team member how he/she would like to communicate. Ask them if they are comfortable with English or whether they would like you to continue to translate your messages to them.
That’s a start. Now if you are not good at drafting
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Affiliate since: 01/06/2012, Power Rank: 293 | Read Anup Kumar's 203 other Ask SC answers

Communication skill is not a very large factor to become a good sponsor. SFI provides so many tools by which you can make and improve your skills for communication

Welcome Letter to your PSAs & CSAs

There are so many sample welcome letter in SFI tools – choose one – make some addition, alternation, if necessary – put your name, designation (Sponsor/Co-Sponsor/Team Leader). Now save the final draft in a Word file carefully. So you needn’t make it again and again. While new member/s sign up – you can easily send your saved welcome letter to them through your genealogy or affiliates profile snapshot just to change the name of member

Other Communication

Go to Ask Sc and search the question you require. There are so many topics on so many subjects. So you can easily find whichever you need. Copy and paste it in a Word file. In the above same way make some addition, alternation, if necessary and then save it finally first and send to your affiliates through Genealogy mail, Email, Team Mail etc

For Short Details of SFI & TripleClicks

Attend SFI Forum with a Note Book and Pen regularly. Click the necessary posts, read the opinions of different peoples. Note down which you think important

Easy Communication

To send an E-card, to write something short for your team members and send through your Stream Post, Chatting, write a short Team Mail – these are very easy. It doesn’t require any good or best skills. Anybody can utilize these tools for their Team Member/s

If you follow the above steps you can become a good Sponsor without skills for communication

Hope the above will satisfy you to improve your communication skills by which you may become an awesome Sponsor for your Team in near future

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Communication skill is not a very large factor to become a good sponsor. SFI provides so many tools by which you can make and improve your skills for communication

Welcome Letter to your PSAs & CSAs

There are so many sample welcome letter in SFI tools – choose one – make some addition, alternation, if necessary – put your name, designation (Sponsor/Co-Sponsor/Team Leader). Now save the final draft in a Word file carefully. So you needn’t make it again and again.
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

After joining SFI and learned enough to start enrolling new affiliates my first concern was, how am I going to be able to give support to my new affiliates? I know my communication shills are not that impressive. I spell and miss-use words so bad that even my computer can’t figure out what I am trying to say.

What has been amazing to me is that my communication skill level did not matter at all. What really matters is that I was willing to find the necessary information to pass down to my new affiliates to fulfill their questions.

With that being said; I can say that your communication skills will not matter very much if you are truly trying to lead and direct your team.

In your home business with SFI and TripleClicks you will find out that there are a lot of things that you need to share with your down-line, up-line and A2A friends. Your communication skills will improve as you continue to share your knowledge with everyone you are associated with.

You will find that the heart of your success in SFI and TripleClicks will not hinge on how good you are able to communicate. Success comes into focus on how well you build relationships with your teammates.

When you sit down with your friends do you worry about how your friends will understand you with your communication skills so low? NO – you enjoy their company and your communication skills never enter the conversation. Do the same thing with your SFI teammates, enjoy the relationship and be yourself.

Am I saying not to better your communication level? NO - I personally keep a “word list” with definitions added so I can learn how to better my communication skills. I also learned that the more I read the better I transmit my ideas through the use of my language.

The concern for your teammates shows in the question you have asked – and that my friend will take you to the pinnacle (The extreme top) of success.

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After joining SFI and learned enough to start enrolling new affiliates my first concern was, how am I going to be able to give support to my new affiliates? I know my communication shills are not that impressive. I spell and miss-use words so bad that even my computer can’t figure out what I am trying to say.

What has been amazing to me is that my communication skill level did not matter at all. What really matters is that I was willing to find the necessary information
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Affiliate since: 04/29/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rebecca's 57 other Ask SC answers

Hi Laura,

I think it is less about what you are saying and more about the fact that you are reaching out to your affiliates. That you are taking a personal interest I believe will come across loud and clear. I do not think that eloquence or the ability to articulate well through words is the major concern but more the action of taking the time to make it personal to your team. A little personal touch can go a long way!

Because SFI is an international company we may experience a variety of languages in our downlines. Again, the personal touch is what is most important. I also think that keeping it simple so that translation is easier can go farther than sending long messages that are difficult to decipher or that lose their meaning in the translation. My thoughts are simple communication often with a tincture of the personal touch is the way to go. This is just my two cents worth though.

I hope this helps. :-)

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Hi Laura,

I think it is less about what you are saying and more about the fact that you are reaching out to your affiliates. That you are taking a personal interest I believe will come across loud and clear. I do not think that eloquence or the ability to articulate well through words is the major concern but more the action of taking the time to make it personal to your team. A little personal touch can go a long way!

Because SFI is an international company we may experience
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Affiliate since: 04/14/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Diane's 76 other Ask SC answers

Hi Laura,

I can see you're an English speaker, so I presume language is not the difficulty.

Communication skills don't feel natural to some people, but luckily are probably one of the simplest skills to develop. The way to develop them is to practice. Most of all, know your subject yourself, with knowledge comes confidence that you know what you want to communicate.

Then there are lots of different ways to communicate. Learn about and practice each one.

1. Newsletters

There is a lot of source material within the SFI website - SFI News, Ask SC, training pages, forum, etc. - which you can use as the basis of your newsletter. Think about what you most commonly get asked about by your team, or what is a Hot Topic or issue currently active at SFI.

You may want to paraphrase but, in most cases, you don't need to re-invent the wheel. Just state the issue you are addressing and then link to a useful page or forum post, which already contains the information you want to relay. Talk around it a little in your own words with your own experience and advice.

Keep a store of your newsletters, you can use them on a fairly regular basis if they are generic topics that will often be needed by new or existing affiliates. Your newsletters are conveniently stored for you now in your genealogy mailer. Make sure to give them a meaningful title you will recognise in the list. Remember this is the title of the email and will be seen by your team, so make it attractive and readable too.

2. One-to-one communications

Personal emails, ecards, SFI chat, Skype etc.
Always respond quickly when one of your downline contacts you for help. It may often be as simple as directing them to a help page you can find for them using the search box at the top of your homepage. Gently encourage them to use this search tool for themselves.

A simple ecard congratulating them on an achievement will go a long way in demonstrating your support.

If you feel comfortable with verbal/face-to-face communication, you could let your team know that you will be available for Skype/Google Hangout chats at a certain time if anybody would like to schedule a chat with you, or they can request one at any convenient time for you both.

Always be friendly, and show interest in your team members personally, whilst remaining professional.

3. Encourage use of the forum

Isn't this where you would go if you needed help or advice? Teach your team to do the same. I always say I am happy to help them, but I think they would get more varied answers to their questions, that they may understand more easily, in the forum, and by more experienced team leaders than I.

If their intention is also to become a serious team leader, then they need to use this most valuable resource. Using the forum for posting advice, asking and answering questions will also improve your, and their, own communication skills.

4. Stream posts

Very short posts to let team members know you are active and supporting them all regularly.

For congratulating team members.
For keeping them informed of news announcements.
For providing links to useful pages, forum posts, Ask SC topics.

Also, looking at the bigger picture, if you asked your question with the intention of helping those for whom English is not their first language, I would draw attention to translation tools. There is a Translate button on every page at SFI and TripleClicks.

There are also free online translation services at Google Translate and Babelfish.
Again, the forum will be useful as there are regional categories there where affiliates may communicate and seek and give help in their own language.

To recap, though, the most effective way to develop your communication skills is to
a) know your subject yourself, or know where you can find it
b) practice as much as you can

All the tools are available at SFI.

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Hi Laura,

I can see you're an English speaker, so I presume language is not the difficulty.

Communication skills don't feel natural to some people, but luckily are probably one of the simplest skills to develop. The way to develop them is to practice. Most of all, know your subject yourself, with knowledge comes confidence that you know what you want to communicate.

Then there are lots of different ways to communicate. Learn about and practice each one.

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Affiliate since: 06/27/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olawale's 109 other Ask SC answers

Hi Laura, the art of communication is a skill and can be learnt, so don't let this
take you out of business. I recommend communication skill training for you.
However, before you get the necessary training, communicate with your team members
the way you can express yourself. The idea you are passing across is what is important.
The power of duplication is great in network marketing is great that you cannot allow it to slip away,
and with deliberate effort on your side you can master how to communicate effectively with your
team members to establish smooth relationship that will be beneficial to every stakeholder in that team.
The points below will assist you in putting your message across to your audience in a more organized way:

1. Dont approach your affiliates aimlessly. Have a purpose for the communication.
2. Set priority of what to discuss in the meeting, and list them in order of importance.
3. Remove anxiety, just do it; put on boldness and get your message across to your audience.
4. Be friendly in your conversation; a friendly interaction tells the other person you have no threatening intension.
5. During chatting, greet and seek first to listen; it will help you to achieve a safe starting point for your conversation.
6. Focus on the other person, asking interesting things about them gives you a good image before them.
7. In case of one-to-one contact, since you are meeting for business purpose, have some business
cards with you - give the business card and wait for response.
8. Get help from your friends that have good communication skill on how to improve yours.
9. Like any skill, building your communication skill takes practice. Keep doing it you will get better at it.
10. Participate in public speaking programs so as to continue to boost your morale.

Good luck and happy business always!
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Hi Laura, the art of communication is a skill and can be learnt, so don't let this
take you out of business. I recommend communication skill training for you.
However, before you get the necessary training, communicate with your team members
the way you can express yourself. The idea you are passing across is what is important.
The power of duplication is great in network marketing is great that you cannot allow it to slip away,
and with deliberate effort on your side
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

You are showing leadership skills through this question you posted. Leadership is modeling on-going learning and use what you learn and share with others.

Attitude of openness is a great attribute of a leader. Remember the great leaders in the past - many did not have great written skills but had other skills such as a positive attitude, collaboration, believed in others and cheered others on to achieve their goals.

Sponsor work is based on being present for others and being there to help others. Your written skills will improve so please do not shy away but be sure to show others that you too are growing in SFI so as to assure others that SFI is not for the elitest but is a universal program for anyone with the heart value of team work, respect for diversity and creativity.

Write what you can but be sure to write about topics you know well about as then your writing will be confident. If you write of things that you don't know about - you're right that people may not understand.

Being a great sponsor does not mean being a great author. A great sponsor is someone who knows what he or she can do and relies on others, team work, to achieve success.
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You are showing leadership skills through this question you posted. Leadership is modeling on-going learning and use what you learn and share with others.

Attitude of openness is a great attribute of a leader. Remember the great leaders in the past - many did not have great written skills but had other skills such as a positive attitude, collaboration, believed in others and cheered others on to achieve their goals.

Sponsor work is based on being present for others and being
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Affiliate since: 06/27/2013, Power Rank: 167 | Read James's 127 other Ask SC answers

Even though I am not having good communication skills, it is not a good excuse for not supporting my affiliates. First I must be ready to learn and practice the art of good communications- the skills have to be learned by reading and practicing and through good communicators if I want my business to be successful.

A good communicator, like a public speaker, is not born with the skills but learning and practicing the skills over and over again., may be through failures and continuous improvement.

Understand my own potentials and capability. I may not good in speaking because of language problems, but good in writing. Then I can use this skill to communicate with my affiliates. A good and meaningful body language will help others to understand my expression.

Read, understand and apply the concepts of 25 dos and 8 don'ts on how to become an awesome sponsor.

Understand my affiliates. Work with the workers. Be equal partners in the business.

Send group or individual emails frequently to keep in touch..

Encourage them to join in the Forum and ever ready to answer any question from my affiliates.

Don't be pushy to achieve my goals but be patient and considerate with the affiliates. Appreciate their problems and try to help them.




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Even though I am not having good communication skills, it is not a good excuse for not supporting my affiliates. First I must be ready to learn and practice the art of good communications- the skills have to be learned by reading and practicing and through good communicators if I want my business to be successful.

A good communicator, like a public speaker, is not born with the skills but learning and practicing the skills over and over again., may be through failures and continuous improvement.

Understand
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Affiliate since: 08/16/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lureita's 23 other Ask SC answers

First off, I can almost guarantee you that most of us didn't have very good communication skills when we joined SFI.

The great thing about SFI is that it doesn't matter. This is an on-line company. You start out by advertising on the web, joining SFI's Co-op program, purchasing PSA's To Go, and bidding on auctions. While you are doing this, you read, read read. While you are reading you learn all you can about your business and how it operates. The more you learn, the more confidence you have.

Since you are already growing, because of the methods of gaining PSA's you have used while learning, you are able to write your own welcome letters and weekly letters. As you are sharing your knowledge, your confidence begins to grow even more. Soon, you find that it is not hard to talk to people when they ask what you are doing? At this point, you also find out that you can approach people and give out your cards.

The key to communication is having knowledge about the subject you wish to communicate.
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First off, I can almost guarantee you that most of us didn't have very good communication skills when we joined SFI.

The great thing about SFI is that it doesn't matter. This is an on-line company. You start out by advertising on the web, joining SFI's Co-op program, purchasing PSA's To Go, and bidding on auctions. While you are doing this, you read, read read. While you are reading you learn all you can about your business and how it operates. The more you learn, the more confidence
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Affiliate since: 10/05/2011, Power Rank: 305 | Read Francis's 105 other Ask SC answers

If one can identify the root of the problem, one has already won part of the battle and the rest of the battle is fixing the problem.

Effective communication is part and parcel of successful leadership as it is not enough to have great ideas, which cannot be shared. So your first step should be to identify what is holding you back from effectively passing on your ideas. For example is it language or lack of communication resources? With respect to the sponsor-affiliate relationship, SFI has made available a platform from which the sponsor can talk to their affiliates. These include PSA and CSA mailer as well as Genealogy. With these resources, you can send messages to your affiliate’s homepage. In addition, I think you can also improve your communication by learning from the draft letters such as those given for welcoming your new affiliates. Over a period of time you are going to improve upon them.

If on the other hand the issue is language, then you can use the translation tools to help you. Most of the time however, we may find that the problem is the absence of communication at all between the sponsor and the affiliate. Although one’s success is not completely determined by one’s sponsor, the absence of dialogue in the first few days of joining can be unsettling and may force those without self-motivation to throw in the towel.

In face-to-face communication, how we present our message, including our body language is as just as important as the message itself. In the absence of face-to-face interaction, how the sponsor writes to the affiliate is just as important as the ideas one wants to communicate.

Finally, I would say spend sometime looking at the answers that will be presented to your question and see if you can identify where you are lacking and apply yourself accordingly.



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If one can identify the root of the problem, one has already won part of the battle and the rest of the battle is fixing the problem.

Effective communication is part and parcel of successful leadership as it is not enough to have great ideas, which cannot be shared. So your first step should be to identify what is holding you back from effectively passing on your ideas. For example is it language or lack of communication resources? With respect to the sponsor-affiliate relationship, SFI
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