Follow up re: having a process

This is a follow up message on the one I sent yesterday about some thoughts about having a process. The following comments are what I received from Rod Larkin who has been an exceptional leader for many years.  Rod says it well.

Gary Burke

QUESTION-- If you were taking a pop quiz in a business training seminar and you were asked right now to write down your process for building your business and teaching others how to build, what would you write down and turn in for review?

Gary hits the nail on the head in this message. All of the goals a person sets won't amount to a hill of beans in terms of results if a person does not have a written plan to reach the goals and a process that you follow and teach others to follow.

Building a successful and profitable Shaklee business is based on a person's ability to duplicate him/herself. If a person wants to grow in the business but isn't, it simply means duplication is not happening and the main reason why duplication does not take place is that a person does not have a duplicatable process he/she is using and teaching others to use, to teach others to use, to teach others to use, to teach others to use, to teach others to use, and so on.

When Duplication is taking place, your process is being used and followed so that when you sponsor a 1st level distributor, that 1st level distributor sponsors a new 2nd level distributor. That new 2nd level distributor sponsors a new 3rd level distributor. That new 3rd level distributor sponsors a new 4th level distributor, and on this duplication process goes. Think of it as making photo copies of your self in terms of copies of your business being made.

This is called "multi-level" marketing and multi-level marketing can only happen in your business when you have a duplicatable process you use and that you teach others to use. It's really no mystery as to why people who build large organizations are able to do so---- they have a process they stick to and they DO NOT deviate from no matter what comes down the pike.

Weekly meetings are an essential part of one's process.  I have been giving/hosting/attending weekly meetings of some type (webinar now for example) for 34 years.  Sometimes it's difficult to get people to understand the need and significance of having a weekly meeting to plug themselves into AND to plug their people into.  Again, it's about getting people to duplicate what you do-- and they will, even if you do nothing.  If you do nothing, your people do nothing.  See how it works?  People are going to duplicate what you do.

Rod Larkin