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Your Virtual Upline Podcast

131: Stop Teaching and Start Coaching to Create More Leaders

Your Virtual Upline Podcast

Bob Heilig

Education, Careers, Self-improvement, Business

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Are you struggling to create strong, independent leaders on your team?

Learning how to become an effective coach is an absolute MUST if you want to build a NM business that someday gives you TOTAL FREEDOM.

As a matter of fact, for many of you this is the missing ingredient to the growth of your business and life right now.

Right now you might be thinking, "I'm a great coach to my team members.  I'm always teaching them new strategies and instructing them how to grow their businesses."

However, you need to know that there's a big difference between teaching and coaching.

Most network marketing leaders that I've worked with are good teachers, but horrible coaches.

Teaching is mostly concerned with the acquisition of new knowledge and is usually done in a group setting.

Coaching on the other hand is focused on development. It is having the support that one needs to achieve a level of success in your business. 

Personally, in my own business, for a very long time I was stuck. I had so many great people with all the potential in the world fizzle out and I didn't understand why. What I didn't realize is that I was missing a critical skill - COACHING.

My inability to be an effective coach to the people on my team was a huge factor in what was holding me back. But once I finally understood all of this and learned how to coach my team..and not just teach…my business and life began to change dramatically.

So, join me in this episode as I share the skill of coaching, how it changed my life and business, and the two key concepts on how to be an effective coach.

Next Level Leadership, my high-level coaching program for successful network marketing leaders wanting to scale their business BEYOND 6-FIGURES, is open now for the first time ever! www.nextlevelleadership.com

Transcript

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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.

0:22.3

Hey Bob here. Welcome back to the show in today's episode. We're going to talk about

0:29.4

the skill of coaching.

0:33.0

And I want to explain to you an important distinction for you as a leader to understand in your business.

0:40.0

And that is the difference between teaching and coaching.

0:44.4

And I'm going to be sharing with you an argument

0:46.8

as to why I feel a lot of you have struggled

0:50.9

when it comes to creating other leaders on your team because you've been focused

0:56.4

just on teaching and training and you haven't understood what coaching is,

1:01.9

how to do it and the importance of it in terms of growing a

1:05.5

successful business. So we're gonna we're gonna break all that down for you today.

1:08.9

I've got a couple of big announcements, the first of which if you've been listening to the show, I'm happy to report that Shannon gave birth to our second son last week.

1:23.4

James Preston aka J.P. everything went amazingly well.

1:29.6

The labor and delivery was a breeze for her, thankfully.

1:33.8

We've all adjusted.

1:34.8

Grayson is really loving being a big brother.

1:37.5

We were a little unsure how he was gonna take to the baby

1:41.1

because he can be a little possessive about mommy sometimes but he has just been obsessed with him so that's been really cool

1:47.5

Shannon's mom has been staying with us which has definitely made things easier because it's allowed her and I to get some sleep

1:54.8

which allows me to do things like this record podcast episodes for you without having to have

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