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

Hello Florence,

This is an interesting question and one which I guess we all have our own answers for.
What needs to be taken into account here is to differentiate between motivation and peer pressure…..whilst you want to develop and motivate your team, you do not want to appear to be demanding and trying to sell things for your own gain.

So how do you do this? I will just tell you what I do and perhaps you can follow it and amend it to your own standards.

Firstly, I tell my team what I am doing and what I have gained from doing it. For example, I will send a team mail out and I will say the following:

“For those of you who are considering purchasing an SBuilder unit as part of your standing order, I will give you my experience. Last month I purchased one SBuilder Unit. I had to wait for 3 weeks for my PSAs to start coming in. Over a period of 3 days or so, I received 4 PSAs, one of which is working and has achieved EA2 status”

A paragraph similar to this does not make any demands on your team to purchase anything but they can clearly see what you have achieved by having an SBuilder unit and perhaps will encourage them to purchase one for themselves.

You can apply this type of paragraph to most anything…….just tell your team what you have achieved yourself and how it has helped to build your business.

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Hello Florence,

This is an interesting question and one which I guess we all have our own answers for.
What needs to be taken into account here is to differentiate between motivation and peer pressure…..whilst you want to develop and motivate your team, you do not want to appear to be demanding and trying to sell things for your own gain.

So how do you do this? I will just tell you what I do and perhaps you can follow it and amend it to your own standards.

Firstly,
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Juanita's 94 other Ask SC answers

Recognizing the milestones of our team mates can be very motivating.

Appreciating them with their daily log in can inspire them to continuously log in everyday.

For inactive ones, asking them how you can support them can be a start of a conversation and motivation that you care. Not necessarily telling them what to do but rather implying that you are here to support them. Their reply to you will gauge your next response if it is a tip or not.

Sometimes, giving informal sharing on team mails about your progresses, successes and lessons learned and experiences in SFI can inspire them as well to duplicate you.

Telling them what to do and forcing them to do some things to be active affiliates sometimes do not help. It is indeed a turn off to some.

Leadership is a relationship between the team leader and the team mates. Relationship also involves not only the greatness of mind but the bigness of heart as well.
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Recognizing the milestones of our team mates can be very motivating.

Appreciating them with their daily log in can inspire them to continuously log in everyday.

For inactive ones, asking them how you can support them can be a start of a conversation and motivation that you care. Not necessarily telling them what to do but rather implying that you are here to support them. Their reply to you will gauge your next response if it is a tip or not.

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

Hello Florence, your whole focus should be on helping your downline achieve success. Things to do include:

1. See your team members as your colleagues and not your sub-ordinate, therefore don't be too pushy.
2. Hash words should not proceed from your mouth to your team members at all times, especially inactive ones.
3. Give them enough independence on running their own business, your words to them should always be advisory in nature.
4. Lead by example, be doer of what you want your team members to do.
5. Try as much as possible to welcome every new member(PSAs and CSAs) to your team and initiate a chat session with them.
6. Always appreciate the effort of each of your team members e.g for being consistent every month.
7. Congratulates anyone of them that WINs in any contest e.g E365, Daily Grand, T-Time, Knock Out Trivia etc.
8. Motivate everyone to put in good effort by anouncing prizes for achievement; e.g. be EA2 this month and earn 5 Tcredits etc
9. Always look at your PSAs and CSAs VPLedger page and tell them what they can do to improve themselves.
10. Always open your team members to new discoveries you have learn to help them grow.
11. Emphasize always on the use of training materials at the SFI homepage.
12. Update your blog and leadership page with encouraging words frequently, and include in every correspondence with your team members.
13. You as a leader must not give up on any of your team members no matter what.
14. Finally, teach them how to do the things you do to be successful. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Hello Florence, your whole focus should be on helping your downline achieve success. Things to do include:

1. See your team members as your colleagues and not your sub-ordinate, therefore don't be too pushy.
2. Hash words should not proceed from your mouth to your team members at all times, especially inactive ones.
3. Give them enough independence on running their own business, your words to them should always be advisory in nature.
4. Lead by example, be doer of what you
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Affiliate since: 06/15/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Cacey's 47 other Ask SC answers

I think if you keep things simple for your team this will go a long way into building a successful team.

Just encouraging your team members to read SFI basics, the launchpad, and the SFI three-step simple plan, will go a long way for laying out the foundation for your prospective affiliates to grow and prosper with this business.

If you need to keep motivating and encouraging your affiliates to do some reading and basic actions in order to build build a successful business than these people are not the ones that you want to be working with.

It's not hard to make executive affiliate every month. The trouble for me has been trying to recruit affiliates who see the value in becoming an executive affiliate and maintaining executive affiliate status every single month. Once the light bulb went on for me I recognized how valuable SFI really is in building a successful business for ourselves. People who do not want to become an executive affiliate and maintain that status every single month either do not want to be in business for themselves or have yet been educated enough to understand the value of this business. Our job is not to force people to want to be in business for themselves, instead we help educate the people who want to be in business for themselves on how SFI is the best in doing just that.

We accomplished that by learning from our upline and applying those things learned into our business. We then take those elements that worked to make us successful with our own businesses and teach our teams to duplicate it for themselves.
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I think if you keep things simple for your team this will go a long way into building a successful team.

Just encouraging your team members to read SFI basics, the launchpad, and the SFI three-step simple plan, will go a long way for laying out the foundation for your prospective affiliates to grow and prosper with this business.

If you need to keep motivating and encouraging your affiliates to do some reading and basic actions in order to build build a successful business than
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

You can support your team members without demanding too much or turning them off if you focus on the following:

1. Let them know that it is necessary for them to take it easy so that they will not be overwhelmed by information overload and that any time they are confused, they should revert to the three basic steps; sponsor at least 5 PSAs, guide them to become EAs and they should encourage their team members to do the same.

2. Always give an impression that you are here to help them rather than benefit from them or exploit them.

3. Rather than just encourage them to work hard and invest, insist on the benefits they will derive if they work hard and make convenient investments. Also let them be aware that investment decisions is purely their prerogative and not a requirement here at SFI.

4. Be very professional in your dealings with them and promptly respond to all their questions and concerns.

5. Always send meaningful weekly newsletters with tips, SFI news update and other interesting development directed at building a successful business. Please avoid irresponsible and unreasonable contents. Ensure the frequency with which you send weekly messages are appropriate, consistent and timely.

6. Behave in such a way as to demonstrate you are real, human and compassionate by giving out your contact and where possible, engage physically with them; telephone, video calls, face-to-face meeting, conference calls and engage using the SFI Instant Messaging (SFIM)service when they are online.

7. It is very important to recognize their hard work and dedication by praising them in your stream posts, recognition area in the forum, sending e-cards and other forms of present like reassignments, gift certificate and tcredits. This will create an impression that you also give, apart from taking from them.

8. Finally, treat them like business partners instead of workers.






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You can support your team members without demanding too much or turning them off if you focus on the following:

1. Let them know that it is necessary for them to take it easy so that they will not be overwhelmed by information overload and that any time they are confused, they should revert to the three basic steps; sponsor at least 5 PSAs, guide them to become EAs and they should encourage their team members to do the same.

2. Always give an impression that you are here to
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

My best suggestion is to simply email them once or twice a week with motivating emails. Use examples of what's worked for you and suggest that it's something they may want to try.

Remind them to keep the lines of communication open and simply let them know that you're there if they need any help.

Encourage them to read your posts on the Stream too for little tips here and there and be sure to congratulate them as they reach new levels, earn a new badge, etc.

You want them to feel like they're being motivated and led but not pushed.

I had a really pushy upline member a while back who really turned me off. Eventually I just stopped reading their emails and did my own thing and I finally dropped out of SFI. I signed back up a few months later with a new sponsor and co-sponsor who are both fantastic. They lead, share, motivate and encourage, and make suggestions but never in a demanding way.

That's the kind of sponsor you want to be too!
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My best suggestion is to simply email them once or twice a week with motivating emails. Use examples of what's worked for you and suggest that it's something they may want to try.

Remind them to keep the lines of communication open and simply let them know that you're there if they need any help.

Encourage them to read your posts on the Stream too for little tips here and there and be sure to congratulate them as they reach new levels, earn a new badge, etc.

You want
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

You are very wise to be cautious; after all they are the business owners. Sponsors are the mentors.

I know it can be quite frustrating at times when they do not seem to be motivated, when they don’t log in, when they don’t do what we suggest but that is our role – to train, to guide, to mentor them. It’s really up to them to ‘play ball’ so to speak.

You can continually support and motivate them by:

- Your own example eg - How many achievement badges do you have at your profile? Your affiliates look at these and it’s an indication to them of what you do, not just what you say.
- Gently keep on training them on how to advertise, how to sponsor.
- Regularly sending them encouraging messages. Send them useful tips on where/how to get VP.
- Grow affiliate involvement by team competitions, incentives, co-ops, broadcasting and celebrating successes, acknowledge milestone and anniversaries.
- Helping them to set targets of what they want to achieve and then help them mapping out how to get there.
- Encouraging leadership and ownership of their own destinations. You do not want dependents.

I have at times ‘played hard ball’ with PSAs who continually ask me the basic questions that they would not have been asking me if they had done the Launchpad lessons. They have to help themselves regarding their learning etc.. not relying on me all the time.

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You are very wise to be cautious; after all they are the business owners. Sponsors are the mentors.

I know it can be quite frustrating at times when they do not seem to be motivated, when they don’t log in, when they don’t do what we suggest but that is our role – to train, to guide, to mentor them. It’s really up to them to ‘play ball’ so to speak.

You can continually support and motivate them by:

- Your own example eg - How many achievement badges
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Affiliate since: 08/25/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Oluwasegun's 61 other Ask SC answers

Your question is what all SFI Leaders must know. many affiliates have turn off their PSAs because of lack of proper motivation. As a sponsor you must know the do's and don'ts of motivations.

DON'TS

A sponsor must not begin to stress PSA to become EA.
A sponsor must not contact PSA everyday it will turn them off.
A sponsor must not ask or tell a PSA that it is compulsory to set up a Standing Order

DO'S

You can support and motivate your team by weekly mails pointing out some fact of success with SFI.
Once a while check on them and their families. be friendly and show concern as family member should.
when you notice the yellow button indicating they are online, click on it to ask them questions if they are having problems with their business.
Tell them the importance of SO and EA. its now their choice to make and not yours

Take example of Launchpad, SFI never rush us to finish it in a day but they give one per day for 30 days. so why rushing your team to do this and that, be patient with them. In fact your duties is to be telling them the importance of this and that not forcing them, its their choice to make when they see the importance you spells out.

good luck
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Your question is what all SFI Leaders must know. many affiliates have turn off their PSAs because of lack of proper motivation. As a sponsor you must know the do's and don'ts of motivations.

DON'TS

A sponsor must not begin to stress PSA to become EA.
A sponsor must not contact PSA everyday it will turn them off.
A sponsor must not ask or tell a PSA that it is compulsory to set up a Standing Order

DO'S

You can support and motivate your team by
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I think you should make a plan, which, in my humble opinion, should have five phases.

Phase 1 - Learning while earning. The objective here is learning. First, you need to educate yourself, to be able to educate your affiliate.

Phase 2 - Building your Foundation: The objective here is massive sponsoring. All efforts invest in a building a team.

Phase3 - Working with the Workers: The objective here is coaching. Once you have made the foundation of your knowledge, transfer it to your downline. But do not waste time with those who are interested to learn and work.

Phase 4 - Exploring other streams. - The objective here is to explore the other income streams and pass it on to your workers. There are several ways to earn SFI. Explore them well and apply. If you feel that you should focus on only one, then please do so.

Phase 5 - Maintaining Growth. All you have built in previous stages, should be constantly maintained and expanded.

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I think you should make a plan, which, in my humble opinion, should have five phases.

Phase 1 - Learning while earning. The objective here is learning. First, you need to educate yourself, to be able to educate your affiliate.

Phase 2 - Building your Foundation: The objective here is massive sponsoring. All efforts invest in a building a team.

Phase3 - Working with the Workers: The objective here is coaching. Once you have made the foundation of your knowledge, transfer
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 83 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

To support and motivate your team members without demanding too much or turning them off is an acquired skill.

This is where your people skills will be tested, and using reverse psychology may work.

When you send your weekly group messages, always write a word of praise and encouragement for having them in your Team.

That they, being an important part of your Team, are valued for their efforts and putting in time to log in everyday and earning their daily VPs.

Share the achievements of other members of your Team, every milestones they reached, every little success they achieved, every contests they won, and anything else that may trigger some interest and desire for them to do the same.

Always share tips, hints, and motivational quotes from training articles and books on personal development and growth.

Share relevant posts from the Forum, or answers from ASK SC that may relate to them.

And always remind them subtly that as a team you all work together for the common good and that united you'll succeed!

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To support and motivate your team members without demanding too much or turning them off is an acquired skill.

This is where your people skills will be tested, and using reverse psychology may work.

When you send your weekly group messages, always write a word of praise and encouragement for having them in your Team.

That they, being an important part of your Team, are valued for their efforts and putting in time to log in everyday and earning their daily VPs.

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