Every organization has a culture that defines it and cements its different parts together.
SFI's culture is made up of strong standards of professional behavior, business skills acquisition as well as high levels of generosity and forbearance in human interactions.
We acquire the above values by being actively involved with SFI, building our businesses. Thus it is already having a profound and positive influence. It is changing our lives, whether we are fully aware of it or not.
First, we have reorganized our schedules to allocate time for learning the business and carrying out the daily tasks. This has directly impacted our time management skills and changed our focus.
Second, and most importantly, SFI is having positive effects on our professional behavior and standards of quality, every one of us. Regardless of our previous personal experiences, we are learning new skills, specific to the required knowledge that is essential to successfully build an SFI business. Most of us, who are seeing good results, to some extent, have leaned or improved their communications, technical and sales skills, as well as their leadership qualities,
In addition, as our efforts do not always yield the expected results, we also have developed resilience and stamina, with the ability to contemplate our lack of success, and start again, working to improve the quality of our input to have a better outcome.
The needs to advertise, promote and sponsor are great motivators for acquiring new knowledge in fields which were foreign to most of us: search engine optimization (SEO), blogging, website building and maintenance, ad-words advertising, as well as the various marketing methods.
There are multiple other areas where we have acquired new skills. For many of us who are EA2 or team leaders, the minimum weekly team mails are excellent writing workshops from which we have gained confidence in our writing skills. It is showing in both Ask SC and the Forum,
Most of these skills are gained for life. They will always be part of our professional qualities.
Third, as human beings, we have learned to be more forbearing, more compassionate, more helpful to our fellow affiliates and team members. The way we interact with our team members is an illustration of this. The Forum is another area where it shows clearly.
The seasoned forum members, generally speaking, are more patient, have a more polished approach in their posts, comments, questions and inquiries. They have a more balanced view and are more cautious in their suggestions and recommendations. The new comers, with some exceptions, being less knowledgeable, not yet fully exposed to the SFI culture, are also learning along the way, polishing their edgy style, suggestions and comments. Little by little, they are grounding their contributions on wisdom and understanding
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