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MLM Training Using Games on Personal Growth Edition 2

11. Sep, 2008 • Categories: Guest Posts • by mlmthegame

Developing mastery in Network Marketing takes discipline and a lot of hard work. There are 5 categories in network marketing that you will need to develop mastery in to be successful. They are Personal Growth, Customer Acquisition, Recruiting, Team Building, and Leadership.

The traditional training style of classroom learning, seminars, books and CDs offered by the leadership of these companies provides good information, but does not equate to success for most people. The “how” is also very important, and interactivity in training helps you learn quicker and retain the information
It is tough to make an article interactive, however we will do our best here.

In this article we will focus on Personal Growth.
Above and beyond any skill you develop, your personal growth and commitment to ongoing education will enhance and solidify every new skill you develop and every habit you refine.

As you grow and develop as a person you become more influential and can therefore attract more high quality business builders to you. Personal growth does not always have to be a lot of hard work like many people might think. Every time you openly engage with different books and tools in the market place you will learn about yourself and others. The more you learn about yourself and other people, the more successful you will become.

Here are some interactive questions we have created for you.

Question 1

Which of the following is the most powerful way to accelerate your business

A prepare and organize
B take action
C read motivational books
D purchase new training tools

If you like the question, share it with anyone you know in the mlm, network marketing or direct sales business. This question was taken from the MLM training tool MLM The Game, think of the answer, re-read the question if you need to, and answer the question mentally.

The answer to the question is: B take action

Preparing and organizing will not get you anything in regards to acceleration. Reading books is good as well as purchasing new training tools, however the best thing you can do is take action. Concentrate on revenue producing activities to accelerate your business.

Question 2

Why is it good to have a mentor

A you can use them as leverage to build your business
B they are already successful, and can show you how to be successful
C a mentor can inspire you and help motivate you to succeed
D all of the above

If you like the question, share it with anyone you know in the mlm, network marketing or direct sales business. This question was taken from the MLM training tool MLM The Game, think of the answer, re-read the question if you need to, and answer the question mentally.

The answer to the question is: D all of the above

Having a mentor will catapult your success. The reasons mentioned above are some of the reasons why having a mentor will do so. Mentors have often been in your position before, and have learned from being there. That knowledge took them multiple years to obtain, and it will transfer to you without the headaches they likely has to experience.

Question 3

Courage is acting…

A in spite of fear
B when there is no other option
C foolishly under pressure
D to avoid looking bad

If you like the question, share it with anyone you know in the mlm, network marketing or direct sales business. This question was created by Clinton Swaine and placed into the MLM training tool MLM The Game, think of the answer, re-read the question if you need to, and answer the question mentally.

The answer to the question is: A in spite of fear

Courage is one of the most honorable character traits. Fear is not something that goes away easily, often times, it never goes away in its entirety. This is normal, feel the fear, and take action anyway, that is true courage. Keep going, and keep growing, because it takes a lot of courage to succeed in network marketing.

We encourage you to use question and game based learning for everything you do. Question based learning will engage more senses, and increase your retention of the information.

Whenever you read a book, magazine, or article, get creative and create your own questions.

This is fun, and it will permanently transfer the information to your brain. This is also a fun way to engage your team. For extra fun, you can give away prizes for correct answers when you send out e-mail blasts with your questions, and continue to learn together

About the Author

Anders Gustavsson
President
Infinite Synergy Learning Systems

The Infinite Synergy team developed MLM The Game, and has been involved helping home-business entrepreneurs build strong relationships and succeed faster through playing this game since 2003. Please visit this mlm trainingwebsite at www.mlmthegame.com for details.

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MLM Training Using Games on Personal Growth Edition 1

10. Sep, 2008 • Categories: Guest Posts • by mlmthegame

Developing mastery in Network marketing takes discipline, there are 5 categories in network marketing that you will need to develop mastery in to be successful. They are Personal Growth, Customer Acquisition, Recruiting, Team Building, and Leadership.

The “how” is also very important. The traditional training style of classroom learning, seminars, books and CDs offered by the leadership of these companies provides good information, but does not equate to success for most people. Interaction in your training materials is a great way to increase your retention and increase the learning curve for you and your team.

It is tough to make an article interactive, however we will do our best here…

In this article we will focus on Personal Growth.

Above and beyond any skill you develop, your personal growth and commitment to ongoing education will enhance and solidify every new skill you develop and every habit you refine. As you grow and develop as a person you become more influential and can therefore attract more high quality business builders to you. Personal growth does not always have to be a lot of hard work like many people might think. Every time you openly engage with different books and tools in the market place you will learn about yourself and others. The more you learn about yourself and other people, the more successful you will become.

Here are some interactive questions we have created for you.

Which of the following is the best way to remain motivated about your business

A wait until you feel ready to work
B keep yourself exposed to the vision of the leaders in your company
C read good books
D talk about how great it is going, even if it is not.

If you like the question, share it with anyone you know in the mlm, network marketing or direct sales business. This question was taken from MLM training tool MLM The Game, think of the answer, re-read the question if you need to, and answer the question mentally.

The answer to the question is: B keep yourself exposed to the vision of the leaders in your company

Keeping yourself exposed to the vision of the leaders in your company is the best answer because it teaches you how to create your own vision. Your leaders have likely practiced their vision statements, and your company most likely has it plastered all over their website. A lot of time, energy and money has gone into creating these visions, and there is a lot to learn from there.

Which response is the best to answer the following question

Is this a pyramid scam

A Yes, do you want to buy in
B I dont think so, they said it was not.
C What is a pyramid scam
D No, this is network marketing, are you familiar with the difference.

If you like the question, share it with anyone you know in the mlm, network marketing or direct sales business. This question was taken from the MLM training tool MLM The Game, think of the answer, re-read the question if you need to, and answer the question mentally.

The answer to the question is: D No, this is network marketing, are you familiar with the difference.
This question is obviously based on your involvement in a legal mlm opportunity. The first two answers are jokes to make you laugh. Asking them what a pyramid scam is not a bad response, but it is a naive way of reflecting the question. Most people do not know the difference between an illegal pyramid and a legal mlm or network marketing company, so stating that it is not, and asking them if they know the difference will educate them if they do not know. This is also predicated on you knowing the difference.

We encourage you to use question and game based learning for everything you do. Question based learning will engage more senses, and increase your retention of the information.

Whenever you read a book, magazine, or article, get creative and create your own questions.

This is fun, and it will permanently transfer the information to your brain. This is also a fun way to engage your team. For extra fun, you can give away prizes for correct answers when you send out e-mail blasts with your questions, and continue to learn together

About the Author

Anders Gustavsson
President
Infinite Synergy Learning Systems

The Infinite Synergy team developed MLM The Game, and has been involved helping home-business entrepreneurs build strong relationships and succeed faster through playing this game since 2003. Please visit this mlm trainingwebsite at www.mlmthegame.com for details.

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Maximize Your Learning Efforts

07. Aug, 2008 • Categories: Downline training, Guest Posts • by mlmthegame

Network Marketing is largely involved with teaching and learning. In fact, throughout every process of the business you could say that to some degree, you are consistently either in the process of teaching or learning. The great part about network marketing is that you learn while you earn. The quicker you learn, the quicker you can earn.

This business can have a large learning curve for many people which can inhibit the growth of your business if not approached correctly. There are a few things you can do to accelerate your learning curve and grasp the subject quickly, that you can teach to your team which will contribute to growing your business faster.

5 Attitudes for Effective Learning

If you use the following 5 guidelines, you can significantly increase the speed at which you learn.

1 Desire
Your desire for learning the information must be personal, and aimed at the end result. A willingness to follow a system for success is important, but the only way to master a subject is to possess a true desire to learn it.

2 Motivation
This is not about getting psyched up and excited. It is about asking yourself, Whats in it for me The more reasons you come up with to study the material, and learn from those who are successful, the more you will get out of the learning experience.

3 Relevance
The more connections you make to the relevance of what you are learning and what it is that you want, the more that you will be able to retain and later apply.

4 Anticipation
Looking forward to your learning experience like a child before Christmas can greatly benefit your ability to learn.

5 Positive Expectation
If you expect to learn easily and get the most from your experience, then you position yourself to retain more of what you learn.

All attitudes are learned behaviors, and you can therefore apply these five attributes to all your learning experiences by simply choosing to do so.

Use Multiple Senses to Teach and Learn

When anyone starts a new business for the first time, saying there is a lot to learn is an understatement.

Most network marketing companies use training calls, large company events, and also smaller support meetings. In addition, there is reading and support material such as audio and video that is available for people to learn from. Take advantage of as many of these different tools as you can, to help you and your team master the business most efficiently.

Learning often has a sour taste in many peoples minds. This is because most people associate learning with only one or maybe two teaching styles that did not suit their preferences. Without getting metaphysical, there are 5 senses you currently use to take in all information.

1. Through your eyes
2. Through your ears
3. Through your mouth
4. Through your nose
5. Through touch

When learning and teaching, unless we are dealing with culinary arts, chemistry, or a few other fields we can safely take out the senses of smell and taste.

This leaves us with three main senses for taking in information. Through seeing, through hearing, and through physically experiencing.

You may have one preferred way of learning information, as many people do. Studies that have been done in this arena indicate the following:

35 of people are visual learners

25 of people are auditory learners

40 of people are physical or kinesthetic learners

These are primary learning preferences. No one learns from only one primary learning style, it is just how they learn the best. In order to maximize our learning potential and increase our memory retention it is important to utilize all three senses and be aware as to what is our primary learning style.

Sometimes we cannot always influence how the information we learn is being given to us. There are fortunately many things that we can do to raise awareness, create multi sensory practices, and utilize our personal primary learning style to ingrain the information given to us.

If you are a visual learner, it will help you to see the information, to read it, and to imagine it in your mind.

If you are an auditory learner, it will help you to ask questions, listen to audio CDs about the subject, and read it out loud to yourself.

If you are a kinesthetic learner, it will help you to get hands on practice, create a walk through, create tests and take them your self or teach the subject to someone else in a way that they understand.

Everything you do in network marketing is usually duplicated to some degree by your downline. If you help them to discover their learning preferences, training efforts can be most effective.

The key to learning anything quickly is to find out which practices in each area works for you and to use them all, because the goal is multi-sensory learning. This is so important because you actually have a different memory storage area for what you see, hear, and do Having the same information delivered in different ways creates new connections in your brain between neurons and dendrites that have never previously been connected. In this way, you can learn quicker, and remember more.

Programming Your Mind For Accomplishment

If you can think of one successful learning experience that you have had in your life, then you can train yourself to have an entirely new attitude of self-confidence around learning a new subject.

Think of a time when you were able to immediately grasp a new concept. Perhaps it is an area when others may have struggled at first, but you were able to get it right away. It could be something as simple as learning a new card game, or understanding driving directions to an unfamiliar place.

Choosing an experience that gave you a positive emotion in your ability to learn can quickly alter your state of mind, and begin to replace negative programming that may have previously inhibited your learning capabilities.

Our minds never forget experiences we have had, only the ability to recall them consciously. We tend to block out experiences that have caused us pain. However, they do not disappear. They only become suppressed, showing up later as behaviors when similar situations arise.

This can be especially true if you have traumatic negative associations with learning. For example: Somebody who was told they had a learning disability as a child, and was constantly made fun of during school, might possibly have a great deal of negative mental conditioning around their ability to learn a new subject.

They may have even changed their conscious beliefs that they do not have a learning disability. However, many years of negative mental patterns may have conditioned them to behave in certain ways which limits their ability to learn and can further reinforce their previous beliefs that they are a poor learner.

If you have had a similar experience that might be limiting your ability to learn, you can change this pattern. By choosing a time in your life that you were able to experience positive emotion in your ability to learn, you can reverse this mental pattern over time.

By continuously focusing upon this positive experience, making it bigger brighter and more emotionally stimulating, you can come back to this mental picture at any time you feel uneasy or frustrated during a learning experience.

Developing this skill will enable you to practice the principle of positive mental conditioning. This can help you to continually increase your learning curve making it easier to consistently apply new skills you develop.

You can simply ask yourself questions that your mind will automatically answer. Questions like, “Why was I able to learn that so easily” and “What was it about that experience, that made me feel so good”

These types of questions will cause your mind to search for positive associations with that experience. Over time, you will easily be able to recall the experience in vivid detail, and likely create new experiences just like it.

By following these principles during your educational endeavors, you will be able to easily learn any subject you choose, and possibly become one of the best in your field.

About the Author

Anders Gustavsson
President
Infinite Synergy Learning Systems

The Infinite Synergy team developed MLM The Game, and has been involved helping home-business entrepreneurs build strong relationships and succeed faster through playing this game since 2003. Please visit this network marketing training website at www.mlmthegame.com for details.

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