Leadership Speaks

Derek Bohlken

 
"Follow Our Lead provides the best supportive foundation for today’s professional marketer. Whether you are just starting out, or have been building for awhile – the power of this group is contagious. I am truly thankful for finding this opportunity. I am recommending this to everyone I know who is in the network marketing business!"

~ Rick Horne

 
"This has provided me with a set of powerful tools for the world wide home-based business market; designed for long term success; an experienced and successful team; world-class training and support; steady and incredible growth in residual income. This is the difference that makes the difference!"  

~ R. Edward Turner, Ph. D

 

"Working with the group has allowed me to focus on learning while I was able to earn.  I've tried many different things online over the years and the training and support always fell short of the mark for what I needed to succeed.  The willingness of the Follow Our Lead team to share information and actual techniques made all the difference in the world to me as far as success in marketing online.

With the support of the team and the knowledge I've gained I'm right on target to meet my financial goals."

~ Heather Veitch

 
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."         

~ Andrew Carnegie

 
"The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential... the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons."         

~ Max DePree

 

 

 
Follow Our Lead was founded in 2006 and includes a diverse group of professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, marketing specialists, internet marketers, technology specialists, and people from a variety of backgrounds with valuable life experiences.

Follow Our Lead is built on a foundation of valued TEAM members and advisors who have the skills to build Follow Our Lead into a presence on an International level. Follow Our Lead has the vision, and better yet, a defined plan to become a reckoning force in online technology-based solutions and marketing strategies to support our clients.

We take great pride in the products that we promote to our customers – we are firm believers in the principle that what we do, and the services we provide, are powerful tools to enhance life and to inspire individuals to obtain their financial and personal goals. It is through our products and support services that many people will find great joy and satisfaction, both personally and financially. We move towards these goals with a TEAM philosophy that has generated success after success.

Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success...

People in all walks of life and every type of occupation talk about building and working as a TEAM, but sadly, few understand its real meaning. If most people realize the importance of a TEAM, why is it that they fail from lack of TEAMWORK? Belonging to a TEAM, in the broadest sense, is a result of feeling like you're part of something larger than yourself. It has a lot to do with your understanding of the mission and objectives of the organizational TEAM and how they relate to your own personal goals. This is especially true when it comes to personal and financial goals.

In a team-oriented environment, you contribute to the overall success of the organization, just as each TEAM member contributes to their individual success. It is the collective whole that makes success possible for the TEAM and those individuals that work within the TEAM framework that makes it possible for the individual to succeed beyond what they are individually capable of. Even though you may have a specific job function and you belong to a specific organization, group or department, you are unified with others to accomplish the overall objectives. The TEAM drives your actions, as it holds onto the bigger TEAM goals while propelling you forward with your own personal goals.

TEAMS are created within many work functions, both in traditional and non-traditional businesses. There are often TEAMS within a TEAM when the overall objective encompasses many layers, which requires both specialization and a broader scope of abilities by the individuals within the TEAMS. So in order to have real success both at the TEAM level and at the individual level, takes a clear, effective approach to the TEAM objectives which also facilitates the individual achieving success. People often confuse the Overall TEAM building objectives as being separate from their own, however it is the success of the TEAM that actually propels the individual past their own personal limitations thus creating both individual and TEAM success again and again.

The 12 Elements of Team Success

 

1

Clear Expectations
 

Follow Our Lead was created to facilitate personal and financial growth for our members and clients through the principles of success training and leadership.

2

Framework
 

Follow Our Lead members embrace the TEAM conceptual framework with an understanding that the strength of the TEAM creates an environment where they personally can go beyond their individual limitations and achieve their personal and financial goals.

3

Commitment
 

Follow Our Lead members understand that to achieve their personal goals takes commitment to action. Each individual is committed to the TEAM objectives in addition to their own personal objectives to obtain a desired outcome that is provided for in the plan, based on following the lead of others that have created success.

4

Foundation
 

Because the founding members of Follow Our Lead started from nothing and built their businesses from the ground up they know what barriers exist in achieving success. They know the barriers people face before people come to that point where they are willing to break free of their present circumstances.  With willingness in place the Follow Our Lead TEAM puts their collective experience into action and gives step by step guidelines so others may break free from their present circumstances.. Follow Our Lead is based on a foundation of principles based on knowledge gained by real experiences and techniques that have created success after success.

5

Mission
 

Each Follow Our Lead member has a personal mission to be responsible for their own personal vision while embracing the overall TEAM strategies that assists the individual in achieving their vision. Strategies are shared on an individual and group basis as well as anticipated outcomes based on individual and group contributions.

Follow Our Lead teaches principles that will allow the individual to pursue, practice, and personify excellence in the distribution of its support services and products. The principles embraced are designed to protect, empower and reward our customers and affiliate members, by conducting business based on the principles of honesty, integrity and social responsibility.

Follow Our Lead provides the ability for the individual to be profitable based on work that adds value to each and every life we encounter.

6

Mastery
 

Follow Our Lead empowers the individual so they may own their personal goals to the point of mastery over them. This is done by creating a system of organization, implementation and accountability to facilitate the personal and financial goals of the individual by putting them in control regarding the design of their financial future.

7

Collaboration
 

Through the group process, each individual progresses through the various degrees of skill development necessary to reach their personal objectives. The collaboration of the TEAM allows the individual to benefit from resources, support and training that might not be achievable as an individual. It is the collective knowledge of the whole that propels the individual to achieve success at a level that would normally be beyond their scope.

8

Communication
 

Follow Our Lead provides communication on an individual, as well as, a group basis.  With this two-pronged approach individuals are able to progress at their own rate, based on the tools and knowledge applied. TEAM meetings and trainings, in addition to individual mentoring, allow for a variety of interactions that facilitate different kinds of communication to ensure that the individual has the optimum opportunity to succeed.

9

Innovation
 

Follow Our Lead has a collective group of individuals, founding members, and advisors that continually strive for creative innovations to find solutions to current and potential obstacles that prevent the individual from achieving their goals. Creative innovation is an integral part of the philosophy behind Follow Our Lead.

10

Accountability
 

Follow Our Lead embraces personal and TEAM accountability regarding the application of principles taught in order to achieve maximum results for the TEAM and each individual. Real accountability means focusing on solutions to a problem and rewards a positive action rather than focusing on the negativity of the problem.

11

Leadership
 

Each individual is guided through the process by their personal mentor, and is also supported by the collective whole, thus success is more achievable on a personal level. These principles and techniques have been used to generate financial changes for people time and time again. These changes are only possible through the application of strong leadership and the ability of the individual to "Follow Our Lead" and apply the principles.

12

Social Change
 

Follow Our Lead applies the principle that through individual change the collective whole is changed. Therefore, if the individual achieves success the ripple effect of that changes the social climate for that individual in addition to the TEAM and in the lives of the people that individual touches through their success.

 

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success"         
~ Henry Ford