Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 600 | Read Shamsina's 138 other Ask SC answers

Well, I wouldn't put it exactly that way.

I don't think it's good to tell someone, "don't do this", or "don't do that". Rather, tell them if you do this, then this is what will happen. And if you do that, then that is what will happen. So take your time and think about it, then decide for yourself. Fast is good, Slow and steady is also good. The important thing is consistency.

I've seen people go all the way to platinum in their first month but then disappear in their second month. I've also seen people just logging in several times a month, then suddenly decide to login daily and start work.

I think the best way is to educate, and let them weigh the pros and cons themselves. This way, when you get active ones, they usually stay a long time.

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Well, I wouldn't put it exactly that way.

I don't think it's good to tell someone, "don't do this", or "don't do that". Rather, tell them if you do this, then this is what will happen. And if you do that, then that is what will happen. So take your time and think about it, then decide for yourself. Fast is good, Slow and steady is also good. The important thing is consistency.

I've seen people go all the way to platinum in their first month but then disappear
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Affiliate since: 09/12/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Susan's 9 other Ask SC answers

The best would be to make sure your down line knows how it works. It is easy to become TL in the first month with all the action points available. You can advise them in two categories:
1. If they are financially able to make a standing order worth 1500 points each month. They can go for it from the start.
2. If they struggle to make ends meet at end of the month I would advise to first get a team behind you to make up some action points so that they can reach their TL status with out spending too much.
Tell them it is very important to study and understand the concepts of SFI. You don't want to give them any surprises.
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The best would be to make sure your down line knows how it works. It is easy to become TL in the first month with all the action points available. You can advise them in two categories:
1. If they are financially able to make a standing order worth 1500 points each month. They can go for it from the start.
2. If they struggle to make ends meet at end of the month I would advise to first get a team behind you to make up some action points so that they can reach their TL status with out
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

This is interesting question. I don't think you should advice them in these lines. The reason is that, as team leaders and Sponsors our task is to encourage them to become a team leader. How fast or slow is their choice. If they want to earn at SFI then they have to work that out themselves. If they want to earn fast they have to work as much if slow then they can take all their time and the runners will be running ahead of them.

SFI is all about choices people make. If they have joined they need to work. If they came just to have a feel of SFI they can and if they want to stay long as long as they want to, they can. If they want to leave they can leave by opting out and if they want to be successful every thing by way of tools and resources are here for them to be successful with.

We can not tell them to be fast or slow. It is their choice and how capable they are or want to be.
Hope I have answered your question.

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This is interesting question. I don't think you should advice them in these lines. The reason is that, as team leaders and Sponsors our task is to encourage them to become a team leader. How fast or slow is their choice. If they want to earn at SFI then they have to work that out themselves. If they want to earn fast they have to work as much if slow then they can take all their time and the runners will be running ahead of them.

SFI is all about choices people make. If they have joined
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Marlene's 27 other Ask SC answers

I don't think it's up to you to decide for your new PSAs whether they should go all out or take it slow.

The best thing you can do is to inform them of the pros and cons and then leave the decision up to them.

I found that by becoming a Team Leader early on, I had the goal every month to either keep that rank or improve it. This gave me a lot of motivation to work on building my business.

Be thankful if you have new PSAs working on becoming Team Leaders. With most new PSAs you actually see no action at all!
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I don't think it's up to you to decide for your new PSAs whether they should go all out or take it slow.

The best thing you can do is to inform them of the pros and cons and then leave the decision up to them.

I found that by becoming a Team Leader early on, I had the goal every month to either keep that rank or improve it. This gave me a lot of motivation to work on building my business.

Be thankful if you have new PSAs working on becoming Team Leaders. With most
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi my dear SFI friends,

"Should I advise new PSAs to slow down and not qualify as Team Leaders so quickly?"


My blind and straight answer for your question is "Yes". With out putting the first step on the floor how can we climb a mountain? Is it possible? When we have a strong foundation for our building, the building will not collapse. Like that with out having much knowledge about SFI, becoming Team Leader that too with out a strong team is not advisable.

In SFI one must have a strong desire to become a millionaire with lot of patience,dedication, love to read and learn to earn. If you follow forum posts regularly, you can observe many of the leaders are not became leaders very quickly. They dedicated sufficient time and got experience, knowledge to guide their team in a better way then succeeded.

Conclusion:
So, my request and suggestion to all sfi affiliates is that don't try to become TLs very quickly. Becoming TL quickly is easy, but after that remaining as TL is very difficult.

Hope my answer will help you. Thank you SFI for giving this opportunity to me.

Have a great day.
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Hi my dear SFI friends,

"Should I advise new PSAs to slow down and not qualify as Team Leaders so quickly?"


My blind and straight answer for your question is "Yes". With out putting the first step on the floor how can we climb a mountain? Is it possible? When we have a strong foundation for our building, the building will not collapse. Like that with out having much knowledge about SFI, becoming Team Leader that too with out a strong team
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Anton's 25 other Ask SC answers

Absolutely not!
I feel it is better to embrace their enthusiasm and be available as they have questions and learn the business. If they bring on affiliates early also they can always refer questions to me until they are better educated on the program. If the affiliates have money to invest in SFI and they want to this is, it is wonderful! We just need to be supportive in showing the new team leaders how their investments and position as leaders can benefit them and where to find this information on the site that explains this so they can completely understand it. We also need to lead by example and mentor them in the leadership role.

See you at the Top!
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Absolutely not!
I feel it is better to embrace their enthusiasm and be available as they have questions and learn the business. If they bring on affiliates early also they can always refer questions to me until they are better educated on the program. If the affiliates have money to invest in SFI and they want to this is, it is wonderful! We just need to be supportive in showing the new team leaders how their investments and position as leaders can benefit them and where to find this information
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Affiliate since: 06/09/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olufolake 's 206 other Ask SC answers

Hi Sandra
The answer to your question is Yes and No. I'l share my experience. When your PSA wants to be a Team Leader, i'l advice you that you should give them a chance to prove their leadership skills and to enhance it as their sponsor.
Support also by advising such to get an S builder or PSAs To Go to build their team towards the next qualifying month. 0r you can reassign some of your PSAs to them to help them, thus motivating them more and if they run into any problem, be there to help them. Don't pinpoint 'i know this won't work'. It can.
My experience was this: last year one of my active PSAs qualified as an EA and wanted to be a BTL. He'd 5 PSAs as at that time but they were all inactive, so i told him to slow down to allow his team to become EA2s. I wanted to help him save cost that would later not yield any profit since he won't be having matching Vps and it could lead to discouragement for him. As at that time i just qualified as a BTL. So he dropped it and became an EA2. Along the line when he saw that i'd become a Team Leader, he became discouraged thinking i didn't want him to advance and be successful as i was doing. I already had 4 EA2s, he wasn't and he didn't see it. He became inactive ever since influencing his active PSAs as well. I was devastated. I thought within me, 'may be i should have allowed him and let him know the cons and what to do to maintain it, that would have made him active till today'.
But on the other hand, i told myself i did the right thing. If i'd helped him to qualify as BTL and had no team to back him up, and he didn't qualify the next month because of no team, he would see his investment as a loss and would see SFI has another scam. So i told myself that one day he'l come to the realization of what i've done for him and be grateful. I learnt a lesson from this. So when one of my active PSAs this year came along to want to become a Team Leader, i didn't stop her, i only told her the requirements and the requirements necessary to maintain it. Immediately she knew what to do, she started recruiting people. She was fast.
So Sandra, i'l advice you to tell your PSA the truth of the pros and cons of being a Leader quickly and the requirements of becoming one and maintaining the position.
When i wanted to become a team leader and i'd a little challenge, SFI support desk told me that BTL is not just about the position is about building a team. I was close to becoming a STL last month with short of 399. I told myself no, there's no need to hurry, my team will get me there someday, first i need to help them succeed
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Hi Sandra
The answer to your question is Yes and No. I'l share my experience. When your PSA wants to be a Team Leader, i'l advice you that you should give them a chance to prove their leadership skills and to enhance it as their sponsor.
Support also by advising such to get an S builder or PSAs To Go to build their team towards the next qualifying month. 0r you can reassign some of your PSAs to them to help them, thus motivating them more and if they run into any problem, be there to help
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Affiliate since: 09/11/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Danijela's 73 other Ask SC answers

This is a very difficult and tricky issue. The answer is yes and no, depending on the case. The easiest thing to say: "Yes, of course, support him." But here comes your team. I think that we should not be greedy and take advantage of people. "Those who are greedy for too much sometimes lose all." - Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)

It is very important that if your PSA aware of what it means to be a team leader and if he knows what it takes to maintain that status. Does he know that he needed and action VP for his status? Will he be able and next month to collect at least 1000 action VP? Or not? What will he do? Is he to blame you for that? Will they say, "You knew that, did you deliberately kept quiet, because you're greedy and wanted to use me?" Will it drive him mad and will he leave your team? PSAs who want to qualify as Team Leaders are very valuable.

If your PSA already has his team (several active PSA) or spends a lot of TC on auctions - of course you need to support it. It is a completely different story than the one previous.

So, you should have to explain to him all the advantages and disadvantages of its proceedings. Following upon himself to decide.

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This is a very difficult and tricky issue. The answer is yes and no, depending on the case. The easiest thing to say: "Yes, of course, support him." But here comes your team. I think that we should not be greedy and take advantage of people. "Those who are greedy for too much sometimes lose all." - Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)

It is very important that if your PSA aware of what it means to be a team leader and if he knows what it takes to maintain that status. Does he know
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Extremely good question that all of us need to ask yourself ???

Of course, each of us has the desire and willingness of its members who is thriving, industrious and painstaking directed towards the top. Yet it is not so good, especially if a new member who wishes forward, not mastered everything that had to be mastered. If you did not work, which makes him the leader and did not understand the point of leadership to work for him can be terribly devastating.

Therefore, it is my opinion that with such things should not be rushed.

The best variant of this is, to teach him to do the work, so that this knowledge is passed on to others, and therefore, did the leaders of yourself. I make him think that I was able to I care about my team, how would later his team was successful. And of course, check his knowledge and ways of dealing him as a leader.

There are people who have been born to be leaders, but if you ask the wrong way their leadership will not last long, and that none of us is not the goal. We aim to create a strong leader and that leader creates its strong members and later its strong leaders. Because as the team stronger, that we ourselves are stronger.

In short say at the end, to each of us to decide whether someone should push forward towards the leader position, but do not stare at any price, because our goal is to maintain a strong team, not to weaken the same.


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Extremely good question that all of us need to ask yourself ???

Of course, each of us has the desire and willingness of its members who is thriving, industrious and painstaking directed towards the top. Yet it is not so good, especially if a new member who wishes forward, not mastered everything that had to be mastered. If you did not work, which makes him the leader and did not understand the point of leadership to work for him can be terribly devastating.

Therefore, it is
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Affiliate since: 10/22/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Adriano's 46 other Ask SC answers

Hi,

That's what I say:

"First of all, question yourself. Are you ready to become a leader? Leading an alliance is not all fun and games.

Leading is a massive time commitment. You will need to be super active if you want to become a good leader. You will be overseeing actions within the SFI, sorting out requests, overlooking the forums, researching other affiliates. Last of all, but by far not the least, you will be leading your affiliates members.

As a leader, you are the "face" for the SFI. If you aren't working well, or if you are not active, members will lose trust in you and lose morale. If you the leader isn't performing, you'll see that the rest of the alliance steadily falls apart.

See that a SFI is a model that has been homemade. The leader is the glue that holds it together. The weaker the glue, the less the "model" holds together. However, if the glue constantly performs, the closer the model will be. This model will hold together if the glue is stronger and doesn't weaken over time.

If you feel that you are a good enough, experienced leader as well as being active enough, it is time to plan your leadership. What type of work do you wish to create? How will it work? You have a number of options?"

I hope it was useful, best regards.

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Hi,

That's what I say:

"First of all, question yourself. Are you ready to become a leader? Leading an alliance is not all fun and games.

Leading is a massive time commitment. You will need to be super active if you want to become a good leader. You will be overseeing actions within the SFI, sorting out requests, overlooking the forums, researching other affiliates. Last of all, but by far not the least, you will be leading your affiliates members.

As
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