Leadership Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

Leadership skills and the ability to lead your sales team properly is a valuable skill if you want to be a direct selling superstar. But some of us are not born leaders and need help from outside (I know I wasn’t). But over time, I got to learn many leadership lessons and how to improve myself as a better direct selling leader. And because I always believe in giving back to the world, I decided to write this article to explain these leadership lessons that I had to learn the hard way.

No one knows everything about being a good leader

While it might seem sacrilegious to say, even the best leaders in the world are not perfect. It is impossible to know everything, and you must continuously strive to learn more and become better.

Invest in your team’s potential, not their choices

When you love to help and inspire others, it can be disheartening to see them not live up to their true potential. When you spend a lot of time, effort and energy in helping others and motivating them, it can be hard to not be personally affected when they do not achieve their full potential. This is especially true when you find someone who you believe can achieve a lot but does not give it their full effort and attention. But, as a direct selling leader, your job is to show them the way and to provide them with the tools for success.

You are not a bad leader if your prospects do not want to continue or decide that direct selling is for them. Sometimes, it is better to “bless and release” and allow them to find success elsewhere.

Finding the balance between professional and personal relationship

QNET and other direct selling companies heavily depend on your network and connections to succeed. It is also an industry where you either work with people you already know or become close to people you work with. But it is always important to find the perfect balance between professional and personal relationships.

If you look at any direct selling network marketing business, you will find that many people who work as a part of your sales team are people who are either friends or relatives. While this creates a bond and mutual investment in success, there is also the possibility of souring the relationship. If you become too close with a particular individual, it might cause insecurity among others in your team.

That does not mean that you should act like a boss and keep them at a distance. You are a leader, and it is important that a leader has close contact with his or her team members.

You still need to keep working on your business

After you build a successful and sustainable direct selling business, it is important to keep working on the business. Even though, as a leader, your main duty is to train and help your sales team, it is important to stay active as a direct seller. This will allow you to keep in touch with the industry and the changes that go on. A good leader is able to balance both aspects of running a successful direct selling business and does not depend on just the sales team to make the sales and profits.

Missing goals does not make you a failure, giving up does

Persistence is a major part of becoming successful as a QNET direct seller. This is especially true if you want to build a successful direct selling business. I have talked in much detail about rejection and how it can affect you as a QNET direct seller. But in the end, the most important thing to keep in mind is that you only lose when you stop trying. Failures and mistakes are just part of being a successful direct seller. They are lessons that teach you about what to do and what not to do.

These are five leadership lessons that I wished I had known when I first started out as a QNET direct seller. But by keeping these points in mind, you can become a stronger and better leader faster.

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