75: Are You Overwhelming Your Team?
It’s great to have you on our very first special episode (5-minute Friday). This is a shorter version of our regular podcasts, and this is happening every Friday. Today’s episode is all about the question for leaders: “Are you overwhelming your team?” One of the biggest mistakes that I see leaders making, is overwhelming their team with too many things to do each week when it comes to training. A lot of times it happens gradually over time, and we never even recognize this problem. There’s multiple Facebook Groups they’re in, multiple training calls to get on every week, and we recommend to follow this person and that person online. Before we know it, our people are spending hours and hours every week ‘getting ready to go to work’, but never actually working! The first step as the leader of your team is you must step back and take a look at everything you’re asking your team to do on a weekly basis. Understand that if you make something ‘available’ to them, it’s likely that they’ll participate. It’s the path of least resistance really. So decide what is , and what isn’t important. Your people should be focusing 80% of their time actually working (that means prospecting, presenting, following-up and enrolling people). As the leader you must become fanatical about protecting your people’s time. Give them clear direction on what they should and shouldn’t be doing. Protect them from the barrage of information and training that you know is going to be thrown at them. Constantly be reinforcing what they should and should not be doing. Keep them focused on taking ACTION. Create a culture on your team where there’s a simple, clear system for training and support… and one where action is celebrated and recognized.