Are You Accountable?
Last post we talked about getting a work out partner. But here is the most important element of that: How accountable you are.
I have at least five people that I have done business with in some way recently that are totally unaccountable. They promise to do things, and then don’t. And when I write them about them, they just don’t respond.
Because they don’t want to tell me bad news. Their highest value is avoiding conflict. So they simply don’t respond when I ask questions that they are afraid to answer. I guess they just think that if they ignore the questions, maybe I will forget they asked.
But of course I never forget. Just remember that for future business dealings, and resolve to have them with someone else.
In network marketing, this is more important than ever. Because it’s all about leadership. We’re bringing a lot of people into business that have never been their own boss before and they need guidance and help being accountable. But to teach this, we must first model it ourselves. So how are you doing on this?
-RG
Yes I’am accountable. I always do what I say that I’m going to do. It has always proven to be the best. I guess thats because I’m old and don’t care what people thinks any more but even if your young always do what your suppose to do and you will reap the rewards.
I understand the Workout Partner stuff in the previous post, and no one really makes it alone anyway.
I also understand accountability, and people really have to live up to that in their everyday jobs and elsewhere. They can’t just do whatever, or leave the office or go on vacation when they so desire etc. Perhaps they’re so fed up with it they find it hard to be business accountable even after office hours for example.
However, I do agree that if people treated their MLM business like they actually treat their jobs, MLM would more than double in less than a year.
Now, furthermore, and this is perhaps no excuse, but, elaborating a bit, I do find, not only in MLM of course, that the interest in what people are actually doing in their every day jobs, or life in general, is pretty much non-existent. It’s like no matter what people are doing, or who they are, if anyone even knows, unless they’re on stage or sitting on the red carpet at a company event, they don’t really count. Perhaps something to think about next time they don’t show up, because, when was the last time we actually asked how they’re really doing, at work, at home, and in life in general? Do we really care, or is it just about the MLM business, and are they mutually exclusive? Of course not, and I’m not talking about babysitting, but do we really know how successful, or not, they are in other areas of life and how that can even play an important part in our business?
So, what did we do to attract a situation where people didn’t show up without even telling us they wouldn’t? That’s usually not what they would have done at work.
In any case, yes, people need to understand that there’s perhaps not so much difference in having to do certain tasks every day at work as well as in MLM to actually make things happen.
Accountability is not only a necessary habit when dealing with other people, it is also important to yourself. If you are creating your own business, the boss you make excuses to is YOU. The person you let down and fail is YOU. If you create an team underneath you, and do not support and train them, they will quite possibly not succeed, and the person who loses is YOU.
As you said Randy, you remember who let you down and you do not contact them next time you have a deal, but we usually do not sit down and spell out to people that they have let us down, we usually keep quiet. But when you let yourself down, you need to recognize and deal with it, or you will fail.