Leader’s Don’t Tell You What to Do
By: Jena Apgar
Tags: Leadership, Memes, Beekonnected, Leadership Development, Business Partnerships

They are called LEADERS for a reason.

They LEAD.

They do not follow.

If you (or your boss) are barking orders from high up on a mountain top — then they are not LEADING the charge.

Don’t be a boss. Be a Leader.

But what does it mean to lead? How does one become a leader when they feel more like an employee without a voice or a small business owner lost in the crowd in the beginning of their entrepreneurial journey?

We got a chance to sit down across a Zoom screen to connect with Dorina Lanza, a BeeKonnected Affiliate, to discuss how she was able to grow into the position of leadership in multiple network marketing companies: NuSkin Enterprises, I-Link, and Fuel Freedom International (FFI). She is now applying those same concepts to build her affiliate business with BeeKonnected.

First and foremost, she said “The people is why I was there”. If you are all about the money and exploitation, it will show in how you present yourself and your product & services.

7 Tips on Becoming a Leader When You Feel Like a Follower

Just go forward authentically. Leaders don’t look behind. Turn around surprised that there are people following you. Understanding who you attract naturally. She works with who she naturally aligns with best and only brings those people into her organizations and offerings. Make complicated things simple. She has always been a teacher and has a natural affinity for training those that she brings on as both customers and partners. Do your own personal development work and teach it to others. Strengthen your strength. Think about the 80/20 rule and focus on the high performers. This is where the vast majority of your success will come from. Take it even further, focus on the 20% of the 20% of the 20%. Know your numbers. Dorina knew exactly how many people she needed to talk to to get in to her organizations. She knew how many people she needed to get in to her organization to get a certain number of high performers. Numbers matter. Not everyone can make it. It is not true, not everyone can make it in the network marketing and affiliate industries. And of those top performers, about 2 out of 3 of those top members that did great in the network marketing industries had no idea how they got there. Dorina loves leveraging personality and archetype tests. Sh found that people like herself, Master Mind Types, that goes deep into everything they do, will naturally do well in anything they do. The Ruler Archetype, Magician or Alchemist all will see great success too as they all have an inate ability to show up. Connectors and Masters do well. However, the Orphan Archetype, and similar archetypes, that are wounded and shrinking, will not exhibit strong leadership. The Givers and Perfectionist do not do well either. Learn to inspire. One of Dorina’s strengths, that she never realized till late in the game, is that she had an inate ability to inspire people to perform at levels that they never thought possible. She was able to paint a picture of what was possible in a way that they never could have imagined. To follow up that success, she started collecting testimonials, and everyone says those were even more inspiring to them.

If you would like to learn more about working with Dorina on her BeeKonnected Team, you can now sign up for an absolutely for free access and membership here: https://dorina.beekonnected.com/free/

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