I’m here to tell you that, that is a trick question.
Did you know that that is not actually your job?
Your job is not to motivate your team because the only person that you can motivate is yourself.
It’s actually impossible for you to take motivation and transfer it to somebody through osmosis.
You can’t do it. And so what can you do, right?
WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR YOUR NETWORK MARKETING TEAM?
Well, first off, you have a volunteer army and you need to remember that these people they’re getting paid by the work that they do. And you’re not their boss, right?
Like you’re not their boss. You’re not actually paying them a paycheck.
And so they have to find and discover their own motivation.
In my own experiences of growing teams and helping other people grow them, I have found that the best thing you can do is focus on building your own business. Work with the people that are already motivated.
And the easiest way to do this is to just keep going and keep growing.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the pack.
So you go out, you continue to enroll. Continue to bring in new customers. You continue to bring in new teammates and start to identify who the leaders are that are hungry, that want it. They are going to be the ones messaging you and wanting to put people in front of you.
They’re doing the dang thing just like you are.
And whether or not they are getting results, they are showing you that they are already motivated. They have everything it takes to be able to go and duplicate quickly and build your network marketing team. They just need the right guidance.
Other people you might need to put a little bit more time into, but I’m telling you, I do not give my time to people that are not coachable and are not willing to do the things necessary, to create success, to create the success in their own network marketing team.
PEOPLE WILL DO WHAT YOU DO.
If you want to create massive momentum, it’s got to come from you first. You’re gonna have to be the self-starter. You’re gonna have to be the one that goes out and starts. When you do that, those motivated people will get competitive. These are the people that want to do what you do. They want the success that you have and so they are going to go out and get it for themselves. They don’t need to be motivated to do it. They simply want to do it.
And those are the people you wanna work with because you wanna work where the fire is hot.
And the more people you can get that are all already self starters and already motivated, the easier it’s gonna be to create that momentum for your network marketing team.
ONE CORE MOTIVATIOR
Now, there are things you cannot create. You cannot transfer motivation, right? That’s something that I said earlier.
What you can do is you can play on what drives people and what drives the behavior that you want to see in your team.
In order to do this, you’ve got to focus on one core motivator. After years in coaching, I found that one motivator and it wasn’t money.
In fact, I’ve found that very few people are actually driven by money. If they were driven by money, they would all be millionaires, right?
My husband and I found that out several years ago when we kind of hit that glass ceiling. We had gotten stuck in our rank and couldn’t figure out how to pop that bubble.
We were going out, we were enrolling people. We were working day in and day out. We had leaders that were going out and enrolling new people. We were growing and growing but not actually moving up.
And that’s when one of our mentors gave us some of the best advice that we ever got…
And that was that we needed to start recognizing people for whatever effort they were putting in, because recognition is the core motivator for a lot of people.
RECOGNITION IS KEY TO NETWORKING MARKETING TEAM SUCCESS
You know, it’s funny because when I look back at it, when I was first starting a business online, there was always one thing that was an even bigger motivator for me than money. And that was being recognized by my mentors, by the people that I aspire to be like.
But I’ll be honest with you and say that I sucked in the network marketing space in the very beginning. And it wasn’t until I learned social media and started doing great that I started having people pat in my back and recognizing me. I was seeing my name on the top of leaderboards and being tagged in posts.
Now, for me, that recognition was enough to get me going. And what I found is that it’s enough to get even the people that are scared out of their mind to go live on social media. It’s enough to get the people that are terrified to reach out to that family member or that friend.
Recognition is something that will drive most people to success.
HOW TO MOTIVATE USING RECOGNITION
Like I said, you can’t motivate people, but if you are able to play on people’s core motivators, it makes it easier for those people, who aren’t just naturally motivated to do something, it will kind of kick something in so that you’re able to find people through them.
So how can you motivate your network marketing team using recognition, no matter the size of your team?
Well, you can start by just recognizing the little things. One thing that we started to implement after talking to this mentor was we started to do a couple recognition posts a week of upcoming leaders in our team that were crushing it.
We would do it inside our team group. And then we would do on our personal pages and on our business pages. You know, it was pretty much plastered all over our social media people on our network marketing team were crushing it.
Other little things that we would do is we would give shoutouts to certain people, right on team calls, in front of everyone. We actually made time for it on our team training calls where people could let us know what their wins were. And sometimes the wins were small, like going live for the first time. But if they got the recognition that they did it, chances were they wanted to do it again because as they wanted more of that recognition.
Then for major accomplishments, we did things like, invited someone to actually go live with us throughout our community. If someone hit like a leadership rank, we were introducing that leader to our social media pages and whatnot.
MOTIVATING YOUR TEAM WITH REWARDS
Rewards are a fantastic way to connect with your team and motivate them.
For example, a friend of mine, a little bit ago during Christmas time, she had done a post on social media where she said, you all say Merry and I’ll say Christmas, and whoever was the last to say, Merry, before I say Christmas will get a little gift from me. And all she did was she went to Amazon and she got like a little notebook and a pen and, you know, put it in some cellophane.
But that really sparked engagement on her social media. And you can take that exact same strategy and you can use it inside your team as well. It could be whoever invites the most people to this online event is gonna get a gift from you.
It doesn’t have to be a cruise to the Bahamas. It could just be a gift card or a tshirt.
You’ll find that if you’re willing to take a little bit of your profit and put it back in your network marketing team towards rewards and different things like that, people get excited.
They get excited for their rewards. They get excited for their recognition.
And it’s a way that you can kind of spark a little bit of that momentum inside of people that need that little bit of a push to do something truly great.
They’re the 80 percenters. They are there and consistent, but not making waves just yet. But when you offer the recognition, they’re gonna be willing to do just a little bit more. And that little bit is all you need to be able to find leaders.
IT’S NOT YOUR JOB
Yes, you cannot motivate your team. That’s not your job.
Your job is to grow your business, but with a couple of these hacks and tips and tricks that I shared with you today, hopefully you’ll be able to spark a little bit of that momentum in your network marketing team.
Let me know below your favorite way to recognize people. And if you’re still struggling to get the kind of success that you want from your business, check out our free formula below!
