Time to Change My Team: Motivating Growth & Starting New Business

[amy07]

I just realized that I REALLY need to change my Team. There is NOTHING that I can offer them that is going to motivate them to grow/start/maintain their current business. Here's how I know:

I had a past guest email me if I would be interested in doing a multiple DS show at her home. She had the time/date already set. Personally, I have not had much luck when a host has more than DS company party. However, I wasn't about to tell her no - even though I wasn't available that day(having my kid's b-day party that day). So what I did was send an email to my entire Team asking if ANY of them were available and wanted to do this show to email me and I would forward on the details and contact info. This was 3 days ago. Guess how many have responded?

one. just one person, and she is "not sure, but maybe"....:yuck: And going by my cluster calendar it's not like they are all booked up - and it wasn't too close in - it's in June!

How many of us would LOVE to have shows handed to us? It's time for me to find some go-getters who also have staying power!

 

[dannyzmom]

Some will...
Some won't...
So what?
Who's next?????
GET NEW TEAM MEMBERS!!!

 

[PampMomof3]

Some will...
Some won't...
So what?
Who's next?????
GET NEW TEAM MEMBERS!!!

Sorry Amy, I know how you feel but Carolyn summed it up pretty well!! Good Luck on getting those new team members!

 

[finley1991]

There is NOTHING that I can offer them that is going to motivate them

I only have 2 that take me up on anything I offer. And it's disappointing.

The ONLY thing I committed to doing this year for myself (and the team) was to do the 1 recruit a month. So far so good. My Feb recruit is a firecracker! My Jan & March (who ended up signing in April) are the special needs people so I can't really rely on them to be consistent and I knew that when they signed. My April one (who hopefully is signing today) is a former consultant of mine. One of my downline is signing someone in May and I have another downline with 2 good leads. So we will see... I have a pretty good show schedule for May and am sure I will sign someone then.

Taking it one month at a time makes it less stressful for me. In the past when I've struggled, I thought, "I need to sign 5 this month!" and never did.

You'll get there! Good luck!

 

[PCJenni]

If you can't change your people... change your people!

 

[PampMomof3]

I only have 2 that take me up on anything I offer. And it's disappointing.

The ONLY thing I committed to doing this year for myself (and the team) was to do the 1 recruit a month. So far so good. My Feb recruit is a firecracker! My Jan & March (who ended up signing in April) are the special needs people so I can't really rely on them to be consistent and I knew that when they signed. My April one (who hopefully is signing today) is a former consultant of mine. One of my downline is signing someone in May and I have another downline with 2 good leads. So we will see... I have a pretty good show schedule for May and am sure I will sign someone then.

Taking it one month at a time makes it less stressful for me. In the past when I've struggled, I thought, "I need to sign 5 this month!" and never did.

You'll get there! Good luck!

Congrats Colleen! That's Fantastic!!!

 

[Nanisu]

So, Colleen what are you doing differently? I have not been doing well with recruiting this year at all, and definitely on track to lose directorship because my team isn't recruiting--so just curious--what are you doing?

 

[finley1991]

I don't know if this will help or not... because I'm not really doing anything differently. All I've done is set the goal. That's it.And what's funny is that I was writing in my journal on April 15th and doing a mid-month check-up on my monthly goals and wrote that I didn't know where my 2nd April recruit was going to come from but I knew I'd have one. Thursday, a past consultant called and wants to re-sign. So for me, it's just having the goal in front of me...And having a goal that's achievable. Whenever I've set a goal to recruit 10,000 (well, not that many but you know what I mean... setting the goal too high), it never happened because I *knew* it was too high and I'd never hit it. 1 per month isn't too high... it's just one.Hope that helps a little!

 

[Nanisu]

Thanks, Colleen--you ROCK. What a simple idea.