Summary of Accountability System:
One of Dani Johnson's leadership development trainers, Laura Senkowski, met with us Friday and gave us some simple advice for running our business like a business. Laura has a track record of working with top Young Living income earners, Sarah Harnisch, Christa Smith, and Lindsey Germont.
Laura had two main points: We need to have scheduled business hours and get
good at tracking numbers so we know where we are having success and where we need to grow.
Consistency is very important. We don't have a business if we are not doing income producing activities (IPAs) every day. Laura recommended we schedule 10 hours a week, but it is possible to grow a business slowly with as little as 5 hours a week. Less than 5 hours a week will not create the mommentum needed to grow a home-based business.
IPAs include invites, classes, and follow-ups. If we are not talking to people and building relationships, we don't have a business.
1. SCHEDULE BUSINESS HOURS:
Brian Neiderhaus says that if you have 5 hours a week
that means 3 hours of invites, a 1-hour class and 1 hour of follow-up. That
translates to 4 classes month. If you are working 10 hours a week you would
double that and do two classes a week or eight a month.
– Invites means
you are calling people to invite them to either an intro class, an event or a
business opportunity presentation.
– Classes are made up of two parts, the
presentation and the closing. The most important part is the closing.
– Follow-ups are
also called Care Calls. We like to follow-up with new members 3-10-30 days
after a class. The purpose of these calls is to help them use the products they
purchased, ask them to host a class and help them make a second purchase
Before making your invite and
follow-up calls it is very important to write
a list. I recommend you make a new list once a week. If you are working 5
hours a week you will need a list of 20 people to invite to a presentation, and
5 members to follow-ups with. (Call them three times) 50-75 dials/week (20-30
dials an hour and expect to talk to between 1-3 people an hour).
2. TRACKING NUMBERS:
Laura reminded us that another very important part of
treating our business like a business is tracking numbers.
When Katy was on Dani Johnson’s YL coaching classes, they had to track the same numbers every week: # of dials, # of contacts, # of
presentations, # of sales, # of biz builders closed, and income earned.
ER% is something we have tracked in the past and is a number
we want to start tracking again. You can track this very easily through the
oily tools app. The goal is 30-50% or better!
Accountability is not a negative thing it is a positive thing. If
we are working in small teams of four, we will have a lot of wisdom to share
with each other. We will be able to celebrate our successful numbers together
and get advice on how to do better with our weaker numbers. Weakness are not
bad they just are. We all have weaknesses.
At the beginning of the month your accountability team
leader will ask you for your 90 day goals and 30 day goals. Your accountability
team will help you make those goals a reality by figuring out what it is going
to take to reach those goals.
We also realized that the most important rank in our
organization is the rank of Star. The new Star is the enthusiastic oil user,
the class hostess, and the budding new business builder.
If each of the current business builders in the HML team
focused on helping 1-3 new people reach the rank of star each month, we would
all be ranking up every six months. The new Star is the one who needs the most
support.
So we are going to track and celebrate ER%, and new Stars,
and we are also going to track our IPA numbers: # of dials, # of conversations, # of classes, # of new members, and
OGV growth.
We encourage everyone to be a part of one or two
accountability teams that are meeting weekly for about 20 min. One group is for
your own accountability and encouragement and the other group is for you to
lead. If you are just getting started and don’t have anyone to lead yet. Don’t
worry. You will soon.
You are encouraged to use the accountability questions below. Your Weekly Accountability Worksheet is page three of this document. Make several copies of page 3 so you can fill one out each week:
Note: Next to '# of Conversations' on the worksheet it has (Y, N, M) This stands for Yes, No, or Maybe. This means every time you have a conversation you have a message, an invitation to come to a class or view a presentation. Their response to this invitation is yes, no, or maybe. Record that conversation as Y, N, or M. Simple.
My wish for all of us is that we would thrive with Young Living; that
we would find a way to serve many people, because it’s a stone-cold fact, we
have a better way.
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