In order to grow a successful home based business in the network marketing industry, one must develop and show leadership, even while working autonomously from home. With most network marketers and home business owners now talking with business partners all over the world, knowing how to establish and exhibit your leadership is crucial.
Becoming a leader will be one of the pillars in creating your successful home based business in network marketing.
1. Know your stuff.
A leader is one who can support others with their knowledge, skills and attitude. For the knowledge and skills, learn as much as possible on your business and industry and refine your ability to answer questions. But it's not all about knowing everything, which is where attitude comes into play. Show your team or potential partners that you have the problem-solving skills and initiative to find answers, and they will trust you to guide them through achieving a successful home based business.
2. Be proactive in sharing what you know and have.
Leaders don't need prompts to lead. They just do. When you know the secrets that have helped you build a successful home based business for yourself, share them. Share your knowledge, skills and attitude, and your team shall follow, replicate and succeed as well. Not only will they follow you once, but having experienced the success accomplished based on your advice, they will now be devoted to your leadership and your teachings.
3. Be available for your partners.
Leadership is no selfish business. While you build a successful home based business for yourself, your partners will expect their leader to also focus on their success and provide guidance, teaching and support. You can be there for them in 2 ways: direct/interactive or fixed/passive. The former is when you are providing direct assistance upon request from a partner; promptness and effectiveness in your answer to those requests are key. The latter way is to create resources which are made available to your partners or anyone at any time without your involvement, for example posting resources or articles online, or subscribing your followers to training email series.
4. Increase your presence online.
When you present yourself online, you are able to portray yourself in 2 positive lights: the leader and the expert. By making your valuable content widely available online, you can contribute to your industry or network while exhibiting your skills and knowledge. Your online presence can be a real advantage when potential partners research you online; if they find someone who has plenty of rich and useful content all over the web, they will feel that they have found a true leader who is likely to help them replicate his successful home based business for themselves.
5. Find a niche for your success and leadership.
Needless to say, having success helps in being a leader. It doesn't mean however that you must be the best at everything and overall and have the most successful home based business in your company. Find the areas in which you are particularly confident and thriving, and focus your leadership on those. Start straight away; with time, your leadership portfolio will expand, but don't wait before you start taking on at least one area, however small it may be.
6. Have a leader attitude.
Who wants a leader who is lazy or gives up? People want to follow positive people with a can-do attitude, problem-solving skills, collaborative approach, focus, passion, tenacity and perseverance. Don't feel like you have it in you? I say 'Fake it till you make it'! The more you act like a leader, the more you feel like a leader. These attitudes will not only help you be a leader, they will also be pillars to help you create your successful home based business.
To conclude, to become a leader, you must lead and show leadership! Having success does not create leaders, and waiting to have a fully established successful home based business before your show some leadership will probably even prevent your success. Leadership is about giving back. So get out there, find your strengths and develop new ones, and become a leader!
Becoming a leader will be one of the pillars in creating your successful home based business in network marketing.
1. Know your stuff.
A leader is one who can support others with their knowledge, skills and attitude. For the knowledge and skills, learn as much as possible on your business and industry and refine your ability to answer questions. But it's not all about knowing everything, which is where attitude comes into play. Show your team or potential partners that you have the problem-solving skills and initiative to find answers, and they will trust you to guide them through achieving a successful home based business.
2. Be proactive in sharing what you know and have.
Leaders don't need prompts to lead. They just do. When you know the secrets that have helped you build a successful home based business for yourself, share them. Share your knowledge, skills and attitude, and your team shall follow, replicate and succeed as well. Not only will they follow you once, but having experienced the success accomplished based on your advice, they will now be devoted to your leadership and your teachings.
3. Be available for your partners.
Leadership is no selfish business. While you build a successful home based business for yourself, your partners will expect their leader to also focus on their success and provide guidance, teaching and support. You can be there for them in 2 ways: direct/interactive or fixed/passive. The former is when you are providing direct assistance upon request from a partner; promptness and effectiveness in your answer to those requests are key. The latter way is to create resources which are made available to your partners or anyone at any time without your involvement, for example posting resources or articles online, or subscribing your followers to training email series.
4. Increase your presence online.
When you present yourself online, you are able to portray yourself in 2 positive lights: the leader and the expert. By making your valuable content widely available online, you can contribute to your industry or network while exhibiting your skills and knowledge. Your online presence can be a real advantage when potential partners research you online; if they find someone who has plenty of rich and useful content all over the web, they will feel that they have found a true leader who is likely to help them replicate his successful home based business for themselves.
5. Find a niche for your success and leadership.
Needless to say, having success helps in being a leader. It doesn't mean however that you must be the best at everything and overall and have the most successful home based business in your company. Find the areas in which you are particularly confident and thriving, and focus your leadership on those. Start straight away; with time, your leadership portfolio will expand, but don't wait before you start taking on at least one area, however small it may be.
6. Have a leader attitude.
Who wants a leader who is lazy or gives up? People want to follow positive people with a can-do attitude, problem-solving skills, collaborative approach, focus, passion, tenacity and perseverance. Don't feel like you have it in you? I say 'Fake it till you make it'! The more you act like a leader, the more you feel like a leader. These attitudes will not only help you be a leader, they will also be pillars to help you create your successful home based business.
To conclude, to become a leader, you must lead and show leadership! Having success does not create leaders, and waiting to have a fully established successful home based business before your show some leadership will probably even prevent your success. Leadership is about giving back. So get out there, find your strengths and develop new ones, and become a leader!
About the Author:
Justine Simard helps others build a Successful Home Based Business with a true path to financial freedom and personal growth. Start your own business and be guided by a group of successful entrepreneurs in learning and applying all strategies to run a profitable home based business.
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