article · July 2010
Projects, Accountability Circles and Business Plan Strategies
You will be the most productive if your goals are aligned with your vision and your values.


You will be the most productive if your goals are aligned with your vision and your values.
- A successful host supplier company.
- A viable product line that you love to use and recommend.
- A proven compensation plan.
- A network of distributors and customers large enough to produce the volume and income you desire.
- A team of organizational leaders sufficient in numbers and power to hold the organization together and grow it.
These two items are interconnected and dependent… meaning that the number of leaders you will have is partially dependent on how many distributors you have enrolled. And the number of distributors you will maintain or grow into in your total organization will depend on how many leaders you have.
Until you have someone that meets all four of these criteria, you do not have a leader.
Make titles and income take a backseat to leadership. Have them be by-products of achieving your goal. Make your goal to develop yourself as a powerful leader and to attract other powerful leaders to your game.
The way to build a successful organization is to do both, enroll enough new distributors to find high-level leaders plus grow yours as they limit out.
The Results Equal Twenty New Product Reps – No Leaders
The Results: Twenty New Product Reps Equals Five Leaders
- When you identify a prospect, make up in your mind and heart that they will either respond positively or refer you to someone who will. Just make it up.
- Become the most interesting person they have ever met or talked to. To the degree the context allows, find out what makes them tick, for example, what’s important and what’s missing. Listen, listen, listen.
- B e perfectly fine with the possibility that they don’t see it for themselves right now. Don’t be a addicted to getting people involved.
- Tell them you know this opportunity can provide results for them and give them the company materials to review.
- Follow up. Follow up. Follow up.
The group gives each other permission to hold each other accountable for their "by when" commitments. In addition, the group is a resource for solving problems.
Being held accountable is simply a "listening". A place to report whether you did or you didn’t, and a place to report on whether you will tomorrow.
A commitment is a decision to do something no matter what.