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4 Traits of Top MLM Leaders
Who should read this post about traits of top MLM leaders? Anyone who wants to become one or become a better one. You should be focused on becoming a leader even if you have not yet sponsored your first person. Only when you focus on the future you will you become more attractive to those around you, especially your prospects.
I studied MLM leaders in all different companies to determine how I wanted to define my leadership skills. I am constantly improving on and learning more to refine my leadership skills so it is a never ending growing process. Do not get to some point in your org chart and think you are done learning, that should never happen, you can always get better (present company included!).
Trait 1: Leadership vs. Management
This is a big one. Here is what an MLM manager says: “My team is not duplicating”, or “I cannot get my team to do anything”. These are perhaps the most common phrases uttered by those in network marketing that have the ability to recruit but do not understand the difference of leadership vs management.
Leadership is doing all the things you want your team to be doing without the addition to the outcome that they will actually do the steps. It is most certainly desiring success for all you encounter but being vaccinated against the threat of allowing the lack of actions or motivation of others to take you out of your game. Leaders focus on those that are worthy of their time, while also utilizing their time in the highest and best use, which, does NOT include complaining about their team. The best thing a leader can do for their team is continue to have success, this motivates the right teammates by showing them how it is done and that it is possible.
Trait 2: Leadership Building
I remember reading a book by Jack Welch called Straight from the Gut. In the book he talks about the importance of differentiating between your A team employees and the rest of the group. We all want our teammates to have success but some are NOT going to be hungry enough to take the steps suggested to start building their business while others are. Leaders will focus their time on building other leaders. I like what my friend Erwin says, “Leadership is having the ability to leave an area or take time off and have the group continue to perform based on the other leaders in place”. Focus your efforts on leadership building, year after year, and you will have an unstoppable army that continues to grow.
Trait 3: Create Persons of Influence
Leaders create other leaders, not followers. If the only thing you do as a leader is tell your team to promote you, then you have created a following but will fail to create and develop persons of influence. The ideal scenario is to help your teammates increase their influence and leadership skills so they are able to do the same and so on and so forth. Network Marketing is meant to be an incubation area for leadership, not a cult where we all follow one person.
Trait 4: Top MLM Leaders Also Possess Leadership in Business
Don’t limit yourself to just reading MLM specific books, understanding leadership in business is a powerful way to lead your group. One of the most influential books I have recently read is the Steve Jobs biography . Reading these types of books to learn smarter leadership in business will only help you when trying to recruit business professionals and teaching your team to do as you do. The top MLM leaders I have talked with in this industry have been some of the smartest business professionals I have ever met, become one yourself.
Quick List for How to Become a Leader
1. Have the reading habits of a leader. If you refuse to read, at least listen to audio books. On a daily basis, work on becoming better. This is one of the most critical leadership attributes.
2. Expect the best of people. Never utter diminishing words about your team to anyone, including yourself. This post may help with this – Expect Greatness
3. Change your entourage. Surround yourself with people that have the leaders skills you want to possess. This simple shift in who you hang out with and learn from can be the biggest change you can ever make. You cannot hang with great leaders for an extended period of time and fail to become one.
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Ray Higdon
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December 4, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Thanks Ray,
You seem to nail it very day for me.
Thanks for the leadership
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 4th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Thanks Tim!
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December 4, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Ray,
Thank You for this Awesome post ! We appreciate
You leading us by example and taking the time
to Nurture a Culture within us that is
“Second to None” !
Savor Your Day,
Tom
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Thanks so much Tom!
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December 4, 2011 at 5:24 pm
That’s the main reason I like to go to so many live events, we get to hang around with lots of top earners and leaders… Helps us become better!
Mike
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Yeah man!
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December 4, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Hey Ray, great content and a great reminder to constantly focus on educating, helping others and hanging out with the right people. Keep rocking Ray!
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
You got it Marcin!
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December 4, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Thank you, Ray! This is great stuff as usual! I like how you distinguish between leadership and management – that is key!
Stacy
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Thanks Stacy!
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December 4, 2011 at 10:23 pm
SENSATIONAL, POST RAY!!
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Thanks Erwin!
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December 5, 2011 at 8:53 am
Great Post , Ray !!
Will make a check and see where I need to improve !
Great to have a leader like you to follow !
Thanks !
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Thanks so much Hezi!
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December 5, 2011 at 9:53 am
Hey Ray great post! I agree, leader’s cannot not want the success of other’s more than they want it for themselves and need to learn to not be attached/vaccinated on the outcome because if not that’s when serious disappointment and frustration set in. In my next post, I share more on this, following a conversation I had with a leader who was putting down their team.
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Awesome, rock on!
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December 5, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Great post Ray especially this Quick List suggestion.
1. Have the reading habits of a leader. If you refuse to read, at least listen to audio books. On a daily basis, work on becoming better. This is one of the most critical leadership attributes.
Thanks,
Dean
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Yeah man! Miss ya bro!
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December 5, 2011 at 12:31 pm
As always Ray you deliver much need knowledge to help anyone acheive the results they seek! Joel and I need to seek out some more leaders here in Denver to hang out with and learn from!
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Denver rocks!
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December 5, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Your posts are always timely and poignant. I appreciate your wisdom. Developing the reading habits and surrounding yourself with the leadership qualities you desire – those are my take aways.
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Thanks LuSundra!
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December 5, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Ray! Great message. Thanks.
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Welcome Dave!
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December 5, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Ray,
Thanks for this. Nothing beats being around Eagles. Just mingling with them robs off n you.
Thanks
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
yeah man, rock it Tosin!
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December 5, 2011 at 5:10 pm
“Change your entourage. Surround yourself with people that have the leaders skills you want to possess. You cannot hang with great leaders for an extended period of time and fail to become one.”
That’s why I like hanging out here, your starting to rub off a little lol, the proof is in my bank account and my blog
Thanks Ray
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Lets do it bro!
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December 5, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Ray, thank you so much for your leadership! Indeed leadership start from within… as you think, so shall you be.
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Aw, thanks Remi!
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December 5, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Ray,
What can I say, You are a TRUE Leader! Great post only listing the Truth!!!
-Armando Arias
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Welcome Armando!
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December 5, 2011 at 11:10 pm
For more than a year I fail into the management trap because I had the same mindset I did while working in corporate america. I spent more time chasing after people, who weren’t interested in building their business, then I did building my team. I finally realized how to determine who to focus my efforts on. Know I focus my efforts on people who reach out to me for help.
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
It happens to the best of us!
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December 6, 2011 at 12:51 am
Hi Ray,
Super action tips here.
Focus on the positive in all you encounter. Especially your team. Expect the best. A funny thing happens: the best happens. The massive power of expectation.
Changing your entourage means letting go and growing. Connect with high energy leaders. Surround yourself them, and you take on leadership qualities, through mental osmosis. So simply, and quite easy as you learn this fact: the energy of the people around you plays a massive part in shaping your reality. High energy folks = high energy results.
Thanks for sharing your insight Ray.
RB
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Thanks Ryan, you rock
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December 6, 2011 at 3:39 pm
I agree you should focus on your ‘A’ Team. It is the 80/20 principle. You get 80% performance from 20% of your team, so you should spend 80% of your time with 20% of your team.
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Ray Higdon Reply:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
SOmething like that, not everyone is hungry, spend it with those willing to do the work!
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December 13, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Great post, but while you covered it in Trait 1, I think the Quick List should include Take Action. I see people get so focused on learning to be a leader, and wanting to appear as one, they forget to actually set the example and be one.
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March 29, 2012 at 12:00 am
Couldn’t say it any better than you just did, Ray. Can’t thank you enough for every piece of information you provide to this community.
My Best,
N
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