First Step Marketing

Workplace listening skills can be important in many different ways. For example, listening and understanding your initial instructions about how to do your job is critical. Good listeners work actively at the listening process. Their eyes and ears are attending and receiving information and their minds are working at understanding what is being communicated. Questions such as, Is this important? If so, how? should be continually considered during important meetings and conferences. Workplace messages could be straightforward instructions, or they could be more complicated types of communication, such as an obtuse interaction between several people. No matter what the content, if you want to communicate well, you must master the listening process. Here are a few pointers about how to listen better. Read the rest of this entry »

The moral and ethical situations that we encounter in both our personal and professional lives are important opportunities for us to choose between fear and its opposite, love. Having the courage of your convictions stems from how much you like _yourself. Before continuing, reflect on the following. On a percentage scale of one to one hundred, how much do you like yourself>

Identifying our fears is usually the easiest part; it is confronting them that is difficult. If we peel back the layers of our fears far enough, we will often discover that their main source lies in our belief that we feel we are not worthy or lovable. A form of ‘honour amongst thieves’ leads us to misguidedly believe that ‘ratting’ on the wrong actions of another is a crime. Speaking up for yourself is not about collaboration with the enemy. Tribal associations of ‘not telling tales’ follow us from school through to social and work dilemmas. In allowing the creation of such fears we directly affect our own self-worth. Indeed, the majority of abuses, physical, emotional or mental, remain unknown, or continue, because of prior conditioning to keep quiet about them. Read the rest of this entry »

Networking is a people business. So you must continually work at developing good relationships, team morale and effective communication.

Effective communication is a two-way interaction between two parties and it implies both verbal and nonverbal communication. It is a vital skill for all distributors and network marketing leaders. Ask yourself whether you would like to listen to yourself at a presentation meeting. Who is the best speaker you know? What ideas, techniques and presentation methods can you copy from him or her?

Here are some ways in which you can improve your communications:

Rehearse what you are going to say Do you know what you are going to say, why you want to say it and how you will put your points across? Read the rest of this entry »