75: Are You Overwhelming Your Team?

Your Virtual Upline Podcast

Bob Heilig

Education, Careers, Self-improvement, Business

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

It's great to have you on our very first special episode (5-minute Friday). This is a shorter version of our regular podcasts, and this is happening every Friday. Today's episode is all about the question for leaders: "Are you overwhelming your team?"

One of the biggest mistakes that I see leaders making, is overwhelming their team with too many things to do each week when it comes to training. A lot of times it happens gradually over time, and we never even recognize this problem. There's multiple Facebook Groups they're in, multiple training calls to get on every week, and we recommend to follow this person and that person online. Before we know it, our people are spending hours and hours every week 'getting ready to go to work', but never actually working!

The first step as the leader of your team is you must step back and take a look at everything you're asking your team to do on a weekly basis. Understand that if you make something 'available' to them, it's likely that they'll participate. It's the path of least resistance really. So decide what is , and what isn't important. Your people should be focusing 80% of their time actually working (that means prospecting, presenting, following-up and enrolling people).

As the leader you must become fanatical about protecting your people's time. Give them clear direction on what they should and shouldn't be doing. Protect them from the barrage of information and training that you know is going to be thrown at them. Constantly be reinforcing what they should and should not be doing. Keep them focused on taking ACTION.

Create a culture on your team where there's a simple, clear system for training and support… and one where action is celebrated and recognized.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Your Virtual Upline Podcast.
0:04.0	What is up everybody and I want to welcome you to a special edition of the Your Virtual Upline podcast, our first ever five minute Friday.
0:22.4	So I'm really excited about this particular concept. My plan is every
0:27.8	Friday each week I want to give you a much more shorter and succinct message. Now look let's keep it real it probably will never
0:36.2	actually be five minutes because if you've been listening to my podcast and
0:39.6	you know me well enough it's pretty difficult for me to say anything I want in just five minutes.
0:45.2	I mean, 40 seconds have gone by already and I still haven't gotten into what I'm going to talk about.
0:49.1	But in any event, every Friday, I'm going to give you a short impactful concise message to hopefully
0:54.9	motivate you and inspire you in your business. Today I want to talk about overwhelm and I
1:00.5	want to ask you a question, are you overwhelming your team and keeping them from taking action by asking them to do too much?
1:12.0	See, one of the biggest mistakes that I see leaders make
1:15.0	is they have all these different things that they ask people to do.
1:18.5	They've got this training call and then their upline has this call
1:22.0	and it's like, and then we have the company call and you
1:24.4	should get on this and that and then we have our team Facebook group and our VIP customer
1:28.8	group and then every time we start a new challenge it's a a new group, or this or that.
1:33.2	And before we know it, as a leader,
1:35.8	if we step back and take a look at everything
1:38.4	that we're asking our team to do,
1:41.4	it's no wonder they're not getting anything done and why they're not producing results.
1:47.0	See, overwhelm is a very real thing for people in their network marketing business.
1:53.7	You know, most people, they only have a very limited amount of time each week to commit to building
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