5 Qualities You Want to Look for When Developing Your MLM Inner-Circle
I truly think that the most critical skill someone can develop is leadership. With leadership you can change the world for the better and without it bad things will occur.
One of the main principles of leadership is that you need to build an inner-circle of dependable leaders that you work very closely with. This is what John Maxwell calls the “Law of the Inner Circle.”
Your inner-circle is absolutely critical to your success and the success of your online business. You need to make sure that the people that are in your inner-circle have several different qualities otherwise they will probably hinder you more than help you.
So what are the characteristics?
Influence
In Maxwell’s words, “Leadership is influence; nothing more, nothing less.”
If you want to extend your own influence, you need to make sure to draw other leaders to yourself and not only followers. This will grow your leadership a lot.
Networking
Similar to influence, you want someone who is networked. This is because it isn’t all about what you know. Normally who you know (or more importantly who knows you) can have significantly more impact on your success.
Nurturing
Part of the perks of a good inner-circle is that you have a core of people who care about each other and will take care of each other if required.
This doesn’t mean that they are there to give you free handouts.
What it does mean is that you have people who will assist in “propping you up” when you need it. They will be there to assist with the areas you lack in and you can help them too.
Empowering
You need to make certain that you are surrounded by people that will help you to achieve things that you would otherwise not be able to do alone.
You want people who will not hold you back.
You want people who will push you to push yourself further than you would go yourself.
Resourceful
Lastly, you need to make certain that the people you surround yourself with, add value to you and everyone else in your inner-circle. If someone is there to lounge around and not put in any work, you don’t want them.
You want people who can see the problems and help with finding a solution using the resources and talent available to the inner-circle.
If they can’t, or are not willing, to do that, you do not want them.
Now I want to give you two fast pieces of advice:
- Begin developing an inner-circle right away.
- Make sure that the people in your inner-circle have the characteristics outlined above.
If you do this you will see spectacular things start to happen in your business right away.
As a side note, you might have noticed that first letter of each word above spells the word “Inner.” That’s because this post will be followed up by a second post with the word “Circle.” So, keep your eyes peeled for rest of the characteristics you should be looking for when trying to build your inner-circle.