I have been writing a short series on key leadership skills required by a Leader. The focus is for network marketers because many MLM and Network Marketing courses do not actually teach or explain leadership concepts. They talk about people needing to develop into Leaders and leave them pretty much to their own devices as to how to do this.
These lessons are based on the book, Leadership Lessons From Star Trek The Next Generation, Wess Roberts PD. D and Bill Ross. This lesson is about the importance of competence and how when it is fostered in your team members it becomes a ‘force multiplier’. This is more so in MLM and network marketing where the quicker you can get each team member to be competent the more money you and they make.
The mistake so many Sponsors make is to recruit, recruit, recruit without stopping to ensure each person they have brought into their opportunity is competent. Just because you picked things up quickly does not mean they will do the same. I am not saying you have to personally train them but you should know enough about them to be able to point them to a personal development resource that will develop their weaknesses.
So what are the Leadership lessons related to competence?
- Despite the level of technical knowledge you may have on a subject it is only through illustration of that knowledge and the confirmation of experience it becomes wisdom.
- Leaders need to broaden their knowledge through the knowledge of others. They also need to complete their experience through experience with others.
- It is impossible to master any skill at once. Only by patiently struggling with it will you eventually master it.
- One Leader may have the best systems and tools on the market but if they cannot use them competently then they less effective than a Leader with a far worse system.
- It is possible to become very learned in the actual area you are operating in, but unless you can put that learning to use in your business it is of no use to the team.
- Good Leaders do not passively experience things. They learn from each experience, reflect on it and consciously examine it for lessons it may have for them.
- The greatest power a Leader has is the level to which they know their work.
- Leaders who can adapt easily to varying situations and demands will be more effective than those who simply imitate.
- One of the best ways of helping team members become competent is to spot and correct serious errors before they become that person’s habits. Habit’s are much harder to change.
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