126: How to Handle a Leader Leaving to Join Another Company
Your Virtual Upline Podcast
Bob Heilig
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
There's a very delicate topic that we leaders have to deal with, which is a byproduct of building a big business, and that is how to handle when a leader leaves to join another company.
One of your leaders leaving for another company is one of the hardest things you will face in your network marketing career. In that moment, it feels like your entire business is falling apart and that everything you've worked so hard for is suddenly being destroyed.
But I want you to understand that how you handle this, how you respond and react, will have a far greater impact on your long-term success than that person actually leaving.
Our usual reaction is we feel revengeful. We start trashing the person, trying to undermine their credibility so that no one on their team leaves to go join them. But I want you to know that going into attack mode is a bad idea.
In this podcast episode, I share with you tips on how to handle these situations, why as leaders we need to lead with character and love, and some actionable steps that will definitely keep you out of the drama.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Bob here and welcome back to the Your Virtual Upline Podcast where we give Network |
| 0:12.4 | marketers the mindset, strategies, and skills that you need |
| 0:17.2 | to build a business and life of your dreams. |
| 0:20.8 | Hey Bob here and welcome back to the show episode 126. |
| 0:29.2 | Today we're going to be talking about a very touchy and delicate subject that unfortunately as a |
| 0:39.0 | leader we have to deal with sometimes in our business. |
| 0:42.2 | Hopefully you've not had to deal with this |
| 0:44.0 | this yet but I promise you if you haven't it's only a matter of time because this is a |
| 0:48.4 | really a natural byproduct of growing a big business and a big team, but it's how do you handle when a leader of yours |
| 0:57.9 | leaves to join another company? This is a topic that I actually give advice to quite a bit when students of |
| 1:08.1 | mine and people in our community when they're facing the difficult task of managing a situation like this. |
| 1:14.8 | They'll reach out to me and I'll give them some advice. |
| 1:17.2 | I've had to deal with it several times, both, you know, I've approached it both good and |
| 1:21.7 | bad and I've learned a lot and I thought it would be really helpful to do an episode on this topic to help any of you and empower you from a leadership and mindset standpoint of how to best deal with this because here's what I will share with you and this is what we're going to talk about how you handle this. |
| 1:36.7 | The way you respond to it happening is actually the most important thing. |
| 1:42.1 | Your response, the way you react, will have such a far greater impact |
| 1:47.0 | on your long-term success than that person that actually leaving. |
| 1:52.0 | And I know that's difficult to understand in the moment |
| 1:54.5 | because it feels like things are falling apart, |
| 1:56.4 | but I'm telling you this is not something |
| 1:58.6 | this is happening to you. |
| 2:00.8 | This is an opportunity for you. |
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