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A History of Blood – Vol. 4, Chapter 25

Promotions

With my promotion to Corporate Trainer official, I’ve already started working on my next promotion: Team Leader.

While my first promotion was all about learning and teaching back our 25 marketing concepts and reaching $840 or more in sales, my next promotion is all about making sure others can teach back the business systems while reaching a certain level of organizational production.

The challenge here is twofold: for starters, most people wildly underestimate the importance of documentation in business, and tend to prioritize results over activity. The logic is then defeated by the emotions. Without a doubt, results are extremely important but they aren’t the end all be all that some people make it out to be. The biggest thing I’ve learned is that the top of the pipeline matters more than the bottom, and that the process matters more than the finished product.

It’s the process that we have to fall in love with, not the end result.

For example, my business model involves walking straight up to people and talking to them about whatever product, service, or opportunity I am promoting at that time. The understanding of that is both simple and fundamental to my business: the more people I talk to, the more money I make—repetition increases the rate of success.

Storylines

For awhile, it was difficult to figure out what I wanted the storylines of my social media to be, but after this weekend, it’s become abundantly clear.

One of my mentors has been waxing old about the importance of talking about the opportunity we have in our workplace but it didn’t really click until something changed in my personal life. The change was subtle, but it made a world of difference in everything I chose to think about, speak about, and act upon.

The nature of all the conversations I’ve been having needed to change, focusing on the interviewing process, promotions, and team building, talking about the field as little as possible.

Growth

Over the past month, our team has grown to 4 people in the blink of an eye, with three of them (myself included) already hitting the standards for performance. I made the illustration above to show how long each person has been working on our current campaign, how much they sold, and how much they improved from the previous week.

Ellie and Kieran both made significant improvements from the previous week, which I hoped would inspire Jillian to see that it is possible to make significant improvements from week to week. For this week I’ll probably continue to create content and illustrations about the opportunity so as to both get better at creating content while also getting better at the administrative side of the business.

One thing I’ve learned about the business however is that while it’s important to set professional goals related to sales, recruiting, training, or team building, it’s important to also set personal goals that don’t have anything to do with work.

For me, my personal goals revolve around my religion and my romantic life; I’ve been working on the next level of the Priesthood for awhile now, and I’ve started actively dating with the intent to get married, and have children. The next stage of the Priesthood involves me learning Haitian Creole, to a level that allows me to minister and study with people, invite them to be baptized, and ultimately; recommend them to the Temple.