Small Team and Group Paper
Small Team and Group Paper
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Small Team and Group Paper
“Together Everyone Achieves More… That’s what TEAM means, so let’s work it out together!” These were my words to my first successful venture into the network marketing and direct sales arena and although I did not have a clue about how I or my team would become a success in this business, we sat down in my overpriced apartment and decided that failure was no longer an option.
This paper is focused on the small team experiences that I have been a part of after making the decision to become a member of the network marketing industry. The team, its communication and leadership behaviors, problems (encountered and overcome) and its effectiveness are discussed. This is in no way an attempt to expose or identify the business by name of affiliation; several events within this paper are generic to the industry at large.
Describing the team of green network marketers would almost be akin to the blind leading the blind, in the sense that we had no clear clue on how to make this business of ours work and generate a significant income. This team of independent business owners (which became the first mastermind group) assembled for the purpose of building an organization that could generate an income that at least matched what we were making in our present occupations, thus allowing each of us an option to work a job or exclusively for ourselves. At the time, we were learning from a gentleman that we identified as our mentor in the business. He was the number one money earner in the entire company as well as having made a name for himself in the industry as someone who was a success at having success. Initially, the team’s behavior was a reaction of being somewhat awestruck at how this gentleman rose to the top of the company within 90 days. This was significantly impressive to each of us because of the rapid success that we witnessed, but this event would also be our greatest problem
COM100
Small Team and Group Paper
“Together Everyone Achieves More… That’s what TEAM means, so let’s work it out together!” These were my words to my first successful venture into the network marketing and direct sales arena and although I did not have a clue about how I or my team would become a success in this business, we sat down in my overpriced apartment and decided that failure was no longer an option.
This paper is focused on the small team experiences that I have been a part of after making the decision to become a member of the network marketing industry. The team, its communication and leadership behaviors, problems (encountered and overcome) and its effectiveness are discussed. This is in no way an attempt to expose or identify the business by name of affiliation; several events within this paper are generic to the industry at large.
Describing the team of green network marketers would almost be akin to the blind leading the blind, in the sense that we had no clear clue on how to make this business of ours work and generate a significant income. This team of independent business owners (which became the first mastermind group) assembled for the purpose of building an organization that could generate an income that at least matched what we were making in our present occupations, thus allowing each of us an option to work a job or exclusively for ourselves. At the time, we were learning from a gentleman that we identified as our mentor in the business. He was the number one money earner in the entire company as well as having made a name for himself in the industry as someone who was a success at having success. Initially, the team’s behavior was a reaction of being somewhat awestruck at how this gentleman rose to the top of the company within 90 days. This was significantly impressive to each of us because of the rapid success that we witnessed, but this event would also be our greatest problem
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