Investing in Personal Development
So what’s the biggest complaint you ever hear from battle-scarred MLM’ers? I think it’s probably that they used to be in Amway and were pushed to get books and tapes in the standing order program. They feel they were taken advantage of. I’m just not buying it…
In fact, I think it’s quite the opposite. I believe they failed to take advantage of one of the best possible personal development programs available.
Yes it costs money. Yes it’s time consuming. But what’s better investment could you possibly make than in yourself?
I will tell you that the personal development I got from network marketing is the most important benefit I’ve ever received in the business. (And I’ve received a lot!) It really did cause me to become the person I have become. I wasn’t even aware of self-development books, seminars and albums until I joined the business. That opened up a whole new world for me. It helped my health, relationships, self-confidence and so many other ways.
I believe if your company has a book of the month, audio of the week type of program, you need to be on it. And create that culture throughout your whole team. And if it doesn’t have one, you probably need to start one. So what do you think?
-RG
I absolutely agree! The skills that can be learned from network marketing training is some of the best education available at any price!
I’ve had people who have left the business thank me later for the skills they learned in network marketing that made them successful in other careers. That should say it all.
Amen to that. If a person grows personally and takes advantage of your companies products, pricing, tools or whatever, and never get a check for a dime, it could very well be the best investment ever.
You’re right on Randy. I had the same experience. I never was exposed to personal development before I entered the network marketing profession and frankly, when I was first approached I said, ” I don’t need any of that!”
I’ve come a long way in the last few years and now I can’t get enough personal development – after all, what is better to investment in than myself. I now see the World in a totally different way than when I first began in this business and I’m so grateful for it.
Thanks for your contribution and PLEASE keep it coming 🙂
~ Dorene Pierceall
Well, I can only speak from my experience. I was in Amway for 5 years. I did learn a lot about succesful people but the books they were recomending were about succesful people in another fields like Sam Walton and Walmart;Williams selling insurance;Bill Gates building Microsoft.
I came to realized that once you got to a level, the distributors were getting a cut from selling the tape of week,the tape of month,and functions. I feel this is un-ethical.
I felt very uncomfortable with the whole patriotism and religious emphasis.
We are better Americans because we follow Jesus and sing the anthem. I did not like how women were treated like second class citizens. At least that was my impression.
Like any pay program,You can make it where one person is making all the money or everyone is making a little each. I felt that most of the money went to a few on the top.
In Amway is where I introduced to a perfect geometric projection, which I found out, It is not true.
I think the current whinge from battle-scarred MLMers is that they are trained by their uplines who often don’t know what they’re doing. (Not saying I agree with this but it’s what I hear the most these days in my work with guys in other companies)
As far as the PD goes I can’t imagine life without it. I have been reading like a bookworm since I was a kid and got into PD very young so when I discovered Network Marketing and found that it was actually part of what we must do I officially came into heaven!
In fact Randy it is one of the main reasons I joined your team. 🙂
Couldn’t agree more Randy. I know that I am a very different person to who I was six years ago – I just didn’t know that all this stuff existed! What a treasure trive it is.
I tend to agree with Enrique. Some leaders in Amway are making money off their downlines. I think Randy made a comment about sales people & NLP people making money off networkmarketing people because of our nature to learn. The same can be said about some Amway leaders.
My boss have been involved in Amway for about 5 years now and I noticed that my colleagues have to buy some sort of recruiting tool or other Amway related items (ie flip charts) after every major meetings – and they are not interested in the business anyway. (They just have to sign up and buy). These recruitment tool don’t even fit the criteria of being duplicable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot31XhgE_XE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgnvMfDu47c
Yes Rachel Henke I agree some/most uplines do not know what they are doing. My boss is one example. He and his upline treats the business as a sales and convincing business. My former sponsor is another, he only know bits and pieces of what Tim Sales taught and adds his own thing to fill in the gaps.
I have come to the conclusion that we need to have Randy’s system as the framework. Then learn other relevant skills from others like Big Al, Tim Sales etc in addition to what Randy taught NOT INSTEAD of.
I’ve always been a supporter of personal development. To me, it’s a “no brainer” if you want to be successful. I’ve been in sales for 28 years and every year I attend a sales seminar. This year I’m leaning towards Jefferey Gitomer’s Sales Boot Camp. I have a life coach, am always reading books, etc. There’s no better investment than to invest in yourself.
JL
I notice that several of you raise the issues of religion, how woman are treated, etc. I don’t necessarily agree with the way some of these organizations handle these areas, but that is not really the focus of this post. Perhaps we’ll look at them in future ones. The topic here is the self-development process and that’s the thing I believe is the most important.
Now the other issue raised was the sponsorship line earning money off of that. Just to be clear, I haven’t made a penny off of that or events. I earn my money from my bonus check. But remember that prosperity is a value-for-value exchange. And when people do the work and provide the materials, and handle the marketing and distribution of them, I’m not opposed to them being compensated for that. The real issue in my eyes in when the “add on” income is more than the primary one, which as we know, is sometimes the case.
-RG
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