A Successful Team is built around mateship, around respect for
your team mates and for yourself. I am not saying that everyone
will get on like best buddies, what I noticed is that in all our
‘differences’ everyone was accepted as they were, got on within
the boundaries of the club and got the job done. I have seen
teams that have been full of stars, as I am sure you have too,
and those teams have not succeeded. They have not achieved their
full potentials as individuals or as a team.
Does that seem a strange notion when I say that an individual
can achieve their full potential as part of a Team? Many
professional athletes in team sport who train together
regularly, learn about each others strengths and weaknesses and
funny enough your weaknesses become very apparent and they will
get used against you to keep your feet on the ground when you
have performed exceptionally well one week!! A good team leader
or coach will gather all this information and put his team
together according to the collective strength and weaknesses of
every person in the team. In that environment everyone has a
chance to shine and achieve his full potential, assisted by his
or her team mates.
The goal is to cover the team’s weaknesses, exploit their
strengths and produce a unit that functions and works very well
together for the common good, for the team goal. Everyone is
involved, everyone has a job to do for the success of the team
so that individuals share the victories with their mates and
celebrate as a whole. A common acronym for TEAM is ‘together
everyone achieves more’. It is for these reasons that an
individual can fulfil their potential in a team setting.
As an Affiliate Marketer, in my naivety, I thought that I was
going to work the Net in my ‘Home Based Business’ and do
remarkably well financially all on my own. I have since found
out that any business, even Internet Business requires team work
to succeed.
In Network Marketing, Multilevel Marketing, Internet Marketing
or even Affiliate Marketing you will only ever do well if your
team is doing well. Everyone needs to be taught and trained by
your up line, you need to do your own research, take what you
can use from your up line and then you need to teach, train and
encourage your own team, your down line. A good leader will
always tell you that his success in achieving and fulfilling
goals and dreams has always occurred when he has had a good team
and everyone rallied together for the common goals of all
concerned.
The same principles of leadership in sport apply in business, in
fact anywhere there is a collection of people who hope to work
together. You need to have a common goal or vision and all work
toward helping each other by swapping ideas, communicating with
each other effectively, working together, putting the groups
interests sometimes before your own. But at the end of the day,
remember, there can only be one boss. This sometimes needs to be
sorted before any team will succeed, one person becomes
accountable to all, they take on full responsibility for
decisions made and they should have the respect of all concerned.
If they don’t then your business won’t exactly be flying along
to the top of your industry.
As an Affiliate Marketer my goal is to be debt free, financially
independent from the common systems of employment and have more
time to spend with my Family doing the things we like to do.
Are your goals similar? Does your Team liase with each other for
the common good? If not it is time to do something about it,
re-establish communication channels and set new goals, reassess
the group vision and create a mission statement so that everyone
knows where they are going. Success will come when you work
Together.
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