THREE LEADERSHIP TRAITS THAT NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE

When I was a kid, the children in our neighborhood would play in a nearby park every evening. Our undisputed leader was a boy barely a year older than I was, I think. He introduced the new kids to everyone, taught them the rules of games we played, and made sure no one felt left out. We also trusted him blindly because he had our backs whenever we messed up.

None of the leadership lessons that I learnt as a child. Three, in particular, stand out:

1.       Trust: Do your team members trust you? Do they accept that you will, without doubt, stand up for them whatever the situation? Only that kind of trust makes people feel empowered, gives them the courage to innovate, take risks, and to push themselves beyond their comfort zones to find success.

There are four attributes on which your trust quotient is assessed: CREDIBILITY, RELIABILITY, INTIMACY & SELF-ORIENTATION. Take this assessment to evaluate yourself on this parameter.

2.       Empathy: Did you notice the look of anxiety as teammate walked into office this morning? Or did you miss it because you were busy fretting about deadlines and targets? Do you treat your team members as human beings, and not just as workers?

Emotional intelligence is widely recognized as a leadership quality, but being transparent about emotions isn’t. I’m puzzled by the fact that leaders are expected to maintain a stiff upper lip, as the Britons say, at work. Why can’t we rejoice in our successes, or how concern about our setbacks rather than taking them in our stride? Why don’t we laugh and cry with the highs and lows in the lives of our colleagues? We are human beings, and knowing that our leaders care for us is a fundamental human need.

3.       Mentorship: no matter how talented we may be, we crave the guiding hand, the mentor who will teach us the rules of the game. Pat Riley, the widely respected NBA coach, once said that there was no great player who didn’t want to be coached. The same holds true of work. Would you be where you are today if your immediate leader taking care of your work at start hadn’t nudged you in the right direction? When people are perplexed about what the future holds for their organizations and themselves, mentorship is critical.

Little did I know when I was out playing in the shadows of the trees of the park that I was learning some principles that would never go out of fashion. At a time when people everywhere are questioning their leaders’ values, those characteristics seem to resonate even more. 

Life is meant to be abundant—rohit mathur

Broadening Your Influence

With the help of this blog I just want to tell that it is very important for us as network marketers to have influence on people who are outside our organization as well. And this is important because you want more and more people to come in touch with you so that you can share your knowledge about living life abundantly and improving in all sectors with them. I’m not asking you to reach people just for the sake of business but for the sake of genuine friendship. Because when you get in touch with new people and new groups they observe the qualities you have and get influenced by you and thus they ask you the golden question, “what do you do” ?

One has to do this work of reaching out to new groups of people consciously and it will never work out sitting on a couch using a cell phone or over mail. You have to get out and meet people in person. That is how you’ll develop new relationships and you’ll reach out to more and more people.

So, just keep it in mind. A gentle reminder for improving your life and your business. Increase your perimeter of influence and you’ll be rewarded.

Life is meant to be abundant – rohit mathur

Sheep Walking vs MLM

According to me "SHEEP WALKING" is the outcome of hiring people who have been raised to be obedient and giving them brain-dead jobs and enough fear to keep them in line. We all have probably encountered someone who is sheep walking.


A customer service representative who will happily read aloud a company policy six or seven times but never stop to consider what the policy means. A receptionist who does nothing. Just sits at a desk, minding her own business, bored out of skull, acknowledging the fact that front office is very slow and that she just sits there, reading romantic novels and watching people come and go.


It is ironic but not surprising that in our age of increased reliance on new ideas, rapid change, and innovation, sheep walking is actually on the rise. That's because we can no longer rely on machines to do the brain-dead stuff.

We've mechanized what we could mechanise. What's left is to cost-reduce the manual labour that must be done by a human. So we write manuals and race to the bottom in our search for the cheapest possible labour. And it's not surprising that when we go to hire that labour, we search for people who have already been trained to be sheeplike.

Training a student to be a sheep is a lot easier than the alternative. Teaching to the test, ensuring complaint behaviour, and using far as a motivator are the easiest and fastest ways to get a kid through school. And during graduate schools, students fall back on what they've been taught: to be sheep, because the stakes are higher (opportunity, cost, tuition and job market). Well educated sheep, of course, but complaint nonetheless.


This is where the Multi Level Marketing is so different. In MLM we train people to become leaders, to innovate and to take challenges against their greatest fears. The two most important one experiences after getting into Network Marketing :
1) Becoming Fearless,
2) Becoming a Decision Maker
Both these qualities make them break the status quo, break the line in which they were kept for so long, feared by the whip (unemployment, risk, bills to pay, etc etc).
Network Marketing teaches you to become self dependent and a person who could inspire and motivate others. Be a leader, the torch bearer.


I'm not telling that in other industries people with these qualities don't exist. They do exist but the number of such quality people is less and even if they have these qualities they continue Sheep Walking. Those who don't, control these industries.


So if you find yourself our anybody around you sheep walking, the solution is right here- IT'S TIME FOR NETWORK MARKETING..


LIFE IS MEANT TO BE ABUNDANT-ROHIT MATHUR.

Linchpins

A few days back I was watching a program on the television where I came across the term LINCHPIN. Linchpin is defined as an event which can lead to a series of events which ultimately results into something really huge and revolutionary.

For example, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria led to the outbreak of the First World War. Similarly, there can be linchpins in our work as well which can be used to trigger bigger events that can ultimately make serious impact in Positive way.


We can observe and find out such linchpins in the various different sections of our business and thus bring about a drastic change. This linchpin can be as simple as appreciating an important member of our organization publicly at a grand event or it can be making a group of people meet somebody who is extremely successful.


Go back and think what made you realise your potential and what generated that self-belief. Generally, we ask have some moments which change the way we look towards ourselves or anything else. How many such moments you have? All these moments were linchpins for you. Similarly, how can you deliberately make the same happen for your associates, decides if you can be a MASTERMIND...


LIFE IS MEANT TO BE ABUNDANT- ROHIT MATHUR