Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 255 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

There are Three things that I personally does to ensure my steady growth as a Team Leader.

1. I continuously recruit affiliates. - This gives me broader and horizontal foundation. We do not only need our new affiliates for horizontal growth but we also need constant replenishment of new affiliates because even our most active affiliates may stop somewhere for some reason.

2. I continuously do duplication from among my affiliates - This gives me deeper vertical foundation. Helping, communicating and mentoring are the things that I do most of the time.

3. I am exploring and studying tools both from SFI website and outside of SFI. I use this both for recruiting and mentoring. Example of the topics I studied are:
a. How to find potential affiliates in Face Book and twitter.
b. How to make blog and draw potential affiliates from it.
c. How take the route of growth via Auction in PriceBenders.
d. How to turn spam email you received to a potential affiliates.
e. How to use relational marketing.

I am sharing all my researches and my studies to my affiliates when I get results as part of coaching.

I would summarize my task as leader as Learning Knowledge and passing on my knowledge to my affiliates while gathering more people whom I pass on my knowledge. By doing this for the last 9 months I am now become the top affiliate in my country.
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There are Three things that I personally does to ensure my steady growth as a Team Leader.

1. I continuously recruit affiliates. - This gives me broader and horizontal foundation. We do not only need our new affiliates for horizontal growth but we also need constant replenishment of new affiliates because even our most active affiliates may stop somewhere for some reason.

2. I continuously do duplication from among my affiliates - This gives me deeper vertical foundation. Helping,
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Affiliate since: 03/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ernst's 7 other Ask SC answers

I believe that to be a good SFI Leader to your team one should effectively answer their questions about SFI.

This means as a Team Leader one should know your way around the Affiliate Center. A Team Leader must be able to quickly look up answers and the appropriate URL where the answer can be found.

And in all your communication to your down-line one should have one aim in mind: to help and to empower your down line to succeed in SFI.

What I did was to make sure I research the Affiliate Center. I am still doing it daily, and after three months, I still find new (to me) info.

I also make a point to read as many posts in the Forum as possible. There are lots of experience here in SFI, and we can learn a lot from the old hands.

In the STREAM posts, I also do not miss the posts of my Up Line. I am lucky to have two very experienced SFI Platinum Team Leaders in my Up Line.

I make sure to study my Up Line Team Leaders and Sponsor and Co-Sponsor’s Stream posts, Blogs, Web sites and Leadership Pages.

Not only for what they are saying, but how they are saying it.

What I get from studying their Stream Posts, Blogs, Web sites, Leadership Pages and Newsletters:

1. How they set up messages to help their down line.
2. What is the content and how they use content to solve problems of their down line.
3. How they do not just tell us what to do, but always tell us how to do it.
4. How they educate us by always including URL’s to visit, in order for us to get to answers ourselves eventually, by navigating the Affiliate Center.
5. How the tone of all their content is always about help, advice, how to and guidance.
6. How they set an example for us to be Team Leaders just like them by employing above mentioned points.

I learn how to be a good Team Leader by researching and studying the Sponsors and Team Leaders in my Up Line.

They are my hero’s here in SFI, and I want to be like them!

I want to empower myself in order to help and empower my down line.

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I believe that to be a good SFI Leader to your team one should effectively answer their questions about SFI.

This means as a Team Leader one should know your way around the Affiliate Center. A Team Leader must be able to quickly look up answers and the appropriate URL where the answer can be found.

And in all your communication to your down-line one should have one aim in mind: to help and to empower your down line to succeed in SFI.

What I did was to make sure I
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

To be a leader, you must have a team to lead. To grow as a leader, you must work at improving your leadership skills and habits. You must know which direction you are leading them and if that is the correct route to the correct destination. We must not lead astray.

These are the things that I am working on to improve my leadership skills:

> Communication skills are the most important leadership skills to hone. A single wrong word can destroy an affiliate's will to build this business. I work on showing a positive attitude even when things are difficult. Every problem has a solution and can be turned around so something good comes of it. I try to find that solution.

I work on shortening my letters, but keeping good content. You might need to work on longer letters with more useful content. I try to keep interest with a catchy subject line. I do not begrudge the time I spend working on each communication whether it is for a single person or the whole group. If it is worth saying, it is worth saying well, in a way that the affiliate will want to finish reading the letter. I hope to never bring the reaction from an affiliate that says, "oh, no, not my sponsor again."

> I am working on being a great example to my team. I participate in most all of the SFI/TC activities, buy from TripleClicks, play the auctions, read and write in the Forum, and ASK SC. I make goals, and hit my goals, and study the materials provided, and the ebooks I buy so that I can answer their questions. I help them with advertising and prioritizing. An affiliate can still feel abandoned even with lots of mail from his sponsor if the sponsor doesn't guide his PSA through the steps that he must take to actually build his business and achieve success.

> A leader works to strengthen his team, not weaken it. Coddling just one member will weaken the whole team. Helping a weak member is not coddling him. It takes a leader to decide where the boundary is and to arrive at the correct decisions about this member. I keep track of my teams vp especially when I offer help of any kind. I write the date, what I did and what his vp for that date is. Then I check it before I write to him again and base the next step on his present progress.

> Setting goals is also important. They help you see where you are going, where you must go to get there, and why you want to go there in the first place. A trip without a destination may never get out of the driveway. I am trying to encourage my team to write down their goals, as I write down mine.

> Organization is important for the remembrance of what you have said, what you have done, and what your team has said and done. I'm constantly looking for better ways to organize my in- and out- going email, and my team mails so that I can remember what I have promised, what's done, what needs doing, and correspondence from the members of my team.

Working at making your team feel liked, wanted and helped will help you have a team that is not only willing, but eager to follow you in this business.


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To be a leader, you must have a team to lead. To grow as a leader, you must work at improving your leadership skills and habits. You must know which direction you are leading them and if that is the correct route to the correct destination. We must not lead astray.

These are the things that I am working on to improve my leadership skills:

> Communication skills are the most important leadership skills to hone. A single wrong word can destroy an affiliate's will to build
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Robert's 47 other Ask SC answers

Hi,

That's not a difficult question to answer, especially that SFI provides you with all the tools to be a good leader, and my path is as follows:

1. I use the PSA/CSA mailer to communicate with my affiliates. They usually do not respond but that does not scare me off.

2. Leading by example - I don't recommend anything to my affiliates that I don't use myself, and I try to be consistent with what I teach.

3. I monitor my affiliates' progress (the Genealogy tool is great for that) and provide encouragement to the hard-working ones.

4. As I contact my affiliates on a more or less regular basis and monitor their progress, I can see who is moving up and who is quitting. After a word of encouragement to those quitting ones, I simply stop contacting them if there is no answer/no change in their history. This way I can work with the hard-working ones in the end.

5. The Pareto rule (or the 80/20 rule) says that we get 80% of our results from 20% of our resources, so I try to identify those 20% and start working even more with them.

6. I forward the knowledge, but I have no influence upon how this knowledge is used, if at all. That's why if my affiliates use what I teach them - it's our mutual success, if they don't - it's not my problem, because I do my part.

7. I spend as much time (or a bit more) as I have declared in my profile (currently 15 hours a week), studying the training materials and learning the ins and outs of the program to help my affiliates even more in the future.

That's it, more or less.

Lots of success to you!
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Hi,

That's not a difficult question to answer, especially that SFI provides you with all the tools to be a good leader, and my path is as follows:

1. I use the PSA/CSA mailer to communicate with my affiliates. They usually do not respond but that does not scare me off.

2. Leading by example - I don't recommend anything to my affiliates that I don't use myself, and I try to be consistent with what I teach.

3. I monitor my affiliates' progress (the Genealogy
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Personal growth and development is hard to define with only one answer.

I have found over the years that there are bascially 2 elements that need to be in place in order to grow professionally and personally and these 2 elements also benefit me as an affiliate with SFI:

1. Read a variety of books, articles and social media postings on the topic of leadership, branding, entrepreneurship, business, marketing, and anything else that may be of interest to you personally so that you can incorporate what resontaes with you into your life - personal and business;

2. Assoicate with those that have skills, knowledge, and character traits that you wish/want to develop in yourself. Review of your associations is key to personal growth and challenging yourself to become the best that you can be in leadership. Associations either will challenge you to stretch yourself to be better tomorrow than today or they will accept you for who you are thus lead without transformation in self.

I have found these 2 elements critical in not only my leadership development but also in personal development. We are humans and we are made up of so many desires, wants and wishes so it is important to develop oursevles as a "whole person" and not just "an area of improvement". The more we work on our lack in skills to become a strength in skills through reading and assocaitions - there is no limit as to what you can do while leading yourself and the people who wish to follow you.
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Personal growth and development is hard to define with only one answer.

I have found over the years that there are bascially 2 elements that need to be in place in order to grow professionally and personally and these 2 elements also benefit me as an affiliate with SFI:

1. Read a variety of books, articles and social media postings on the topic of leadership, branding, entrepreneurship, business, marketing, and anything else that may be of interest to you personally so that
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Affiliate since: 03/20/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Carl's 5 other Ask SC answers

First I would like to say thank you for this question,

I took a few minutes to think about it and decided to give my best answer.

First I do everything I can to stay on top of my team, To stay in contact with them,I send them emails at least a couple times a week with tips on marketing, or information I have found within SFI.

If I run into something on the web that I think might help my team, I send them a message about the information I found and tell them where to find it as well as give them the link to it so they can find it easily.

I remind them of the importance of running there business, and always remind them that I am just a message away if they need help with anything. I hope this gives them the feeling that I care and that I'm not in it just to make a quick buck.

I also recommend that they sign up for the IAHBE membership, IAHBE is packed full of information about home business's and Internet marketing.

I run ads about the SFI business and the concept that you cant make a bunch of money over night, but you can make a good income with SFI, over a longer period of time, a lot of the people that sign up think its a get rich quick business and once they realize that it's not they bail on it. so I post information about the SFI business and state that if wont happen over night but it can and will happen if you work this business to the best of your ability.

I hope this gives you a little insight

SEE YOU AT THE TOP


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First I would like to say thank you for this question,

I took a few minutes to think about it and decided to give my best answer.

First I do everything I can to stay on top of my team, To stay in contact with them,I send them emails at least a couple times a week with tips on marketing, or information I have found within SFI.

If I run into something on the web that I think might help my team, I send them a message about the information I found and tell them where
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Affiliate since: 04/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Syed Mubbashir's 5 other Ask SC answers

Read, read, read. Communicate. Duplicate. Reward my team. And then turn around and do it again tomorrow.

I think the most important thing to do to grow as a leader is to read and learn as much as possible. There is a lot of information on this site. Then there's the IAHBE site, which is LOADED with information. If I'm looking for information on a specific subject, I look in the TC store to find cheap ebooks. Most of the time I buy them with a TCredit or MRP. There is so much information out there, and there is always more to learn. This is more about becoming knowledgeable for my own business than being a leader, per se. However, to be a successful leader, you have to know your business.

One of the most important aspects of being a leader is communicating to your team. They need to know what is expected of them, and you have to show them how to achieve those goals. You need to lead by example, and communicate any time they need help.

Good communication will lead to duplication. When your team starts duplicating your success, it is good to reward them. Even small incentives are great motivators.

Finally, I think it's important to be persistent in everything we do here. It's important to come here every day, lead by example, and show our team that we are serious about the business we are building together. You can't lead your team unless you are going somewhere.

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Read, read, read. Communicate. Duplicate. Reward my team. And then turn around and do it again tomorrow.

I think the most important thing to do to grow as a leader is to read and learn as much as possible. There is a lot of information on this site. Then there's the IAHBE site, which is LOADED with information. If I'm looking for information on a specific subject, I look in the TC store to find cheap ebooks. Most of the time I buy them with a TCredit or MRP. There is so much information
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Affiliate since: 11/14/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Claudio's 32 other Ask SC answers

A great question and quite a hard one to answer. I myself am a very impatient person, in fact I'm probably not really suited to this type of job as patience is a requirement for success, However I believe I'm doing very well. Communication is a big factor in growing a business, I believe you have to liken SFI to a Bricks and Mortar type business. These businesses grow with team meetings and communicating the changes and needs and goal settings need to be discussed often. Many small achievable goals are better than large distant goals.

So I write to my team often I invite them regularly to write back to me with concerns or even tips that they have learnt, I share this information with all my downline as often as I can.

I believe that a standing order is very important to teach early, this ensure ea maintenance month after month being a team leader I show them what would or could happen if no one decided to do a standing order. I try and show importance of the tasks they need to do. Ad I listen to what they have to say.

It's ok to say this is a numbers game and many affiliates have sponsors or team leaders who are silent or never write and are or can be successfull, however the best business is the one who has the best team work, e best communication, the happiest team of all are those who know they are on a successful tidal wave and in time will give success to all those who ride the wave.

Keeping upto date with updates on the happenings within SFI also helps you to grow and be successful. Well my team is well on the way to success and although many still start with scepticism in their minds, once I can convince them to stay beyond a few months they soon can see the broader picture and the simplicity that this system really is.

Hope this helps and if you want to be involved with my team just join the a2a or invite me to be a a2a friend and we can help each other out.
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A great question and quite a hard one to answer. I myself am a very impatient person, in fact I'm probably not really suited to this type of job as patience is a requirement for success, However I believe I'm doing very well. Communication is a big factor in growing a business, I believe you have to liken SFI to a Bricks and Mortar type business. These businesses grow with team meetings and communicating the changes and needs and goal settings need to be discussed often. Many small achievable
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Growth requires learning, so that is what I'm doing.

I've only been in SFI a little over 2 months, so I still have a lot to learn. I spend time each day reading and re-reading the beginner training materials, such as LaunchPad. I always read the TIPs tab each day, I'm familiar with Rules of Success, and I've started working through the Internet Income course. I have a subscription to IAHBE, and I try to read at least one article there a day.

I'm lucky that I have some hugely experienced leaders in my upline, so I always look out for their team mails and stream posts, and visit their leadership pages frequently, so I can catch any updates. I am in regular contact with my sponsor, and we share ideas and inspiration.

Outside of SFI, I have a number of business blogs that I subscribe to, and visit regularly to check out the new posts. I follow a number of business leaders on LinkedIn, and always take time to read their latest updates.

Finally, I am an avid reader, and I'm always looking out for autobiographies of successful business people. These are my best sources of ideas, inspiration and motivation, because they give me direct access to the minds of people who are already successful leaders.
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Growth requires learning, so that is what I'm doing.

I've only been in SFI a little over 2 months, so I still have a lot to learn. I spend time each day reading and re-reading the beginner training materials, such as LaunchPad. I always read the TIPs tab each day, I'm familiar with Rules of Success, and I've started working through the Internet Income course. I have a subscription to IAHBE, and I try to read at least one article there a day.

I'm lucky that I have some hugely
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Affiliate since: 08/26/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Dr Sudhanshu's 155 other Ask SC answers

A very good question. Ensuring that you are continuously growing in SFI is one of the very difficult task and done only by few members. Personally i have following points which I concentrate everyday to ensure my growth

1. Recruiting new PSAs everyday to make sure I have at least 5 highly active PSAs. Because, at some point you may find some of your active PSAs may stop too. SO constant PSA recruitment is necessary.

2. Inviting new business people almost every month to become ECA. This is one of the major things in SFI i believe.

3. Making sure my Team members are finding me anytime they need a help. My small helps can really boost their confidence to grow. And my growth is highly dependent on them.

I feel, concentrating on these steps make me always safe as Leader...Hope it will do for you too......
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A very good question. Ensuring that you are continuously growing in SFI is one of the very difficult task and done only by few members. Personally i have following points which I concentrate everyday to ensure my growth

1. Recruiting new PSAs everyday to make sure I have at least 5 highly active PSAs. Because, at some point you may find some of your active PSAs may stop too. SO constant PSA recruitment is necessary.

2. Inviting new business people almost every month to become
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