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Mastermind Groups: A Phone Script for Inviting COIs to Participate in Your Mastermind Group
If you’ve been reading our Posts, you’ve learned what a Mastermind Group is, how to select COIs to participate and how to organize and set meeting agendas. Now it’s time to invite the COIs you want to participate. Following is a sample script you can use when calling...
Mastermind Groups: Building Trust
“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” ― Stephen R. Covey The success of your Mastermind Group is based on trust. Without trust no open and honest...
Mastermind Groups: Setting Rules and Establishing Guidelines
Okay, you might be thinking, “This is a casual group that gets together on a regular basis. Do we really need rules or bylaws?” The answer is an emphatic “YES!” The purpose of setting rules or bylaws is to ensure fair and full participation for each member and to...
Mastermind Groups: The Role of the Facilitator
Selecting the right Mastermind Group Facilitator for your group is extremely important. This person ensures time in the group is well spent and every member is receiving value from his/her membership. He or she makes sure group standards are upheld, educational...
Mastermind Groups: How Will It Work?
The goal of a Mastermind Group should be to work in a collaborative or win-win fashion. Members in good standing must be able to contribute to the business growth of other members. To develop this win-win atmosphere, an atmosphere of trust among members is of...
Mastermind Groups: Achieving a Collaborative Approach
In a previous post, we talked about some of the hurdles advisors have faced when organizing a Mastermind Group and how to overcome them. The next important step to organizing your group is to ensure, that once the group meets, members are on the same page with their...
Mastermind Groups: Hurdles to Overcome
Once you’ve taken the first step to select viable candidates for your Mastermind Group, it’s time to take action! However, before you begin, let’s look at a few of the road blocks others have encountered when organizing their groups, and explore solutions for...
Mastermind Groups: Selecting COIs to Participate
In his business classic, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill describes Master Mind as a “Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.” Throughout history many successful men, i.e....
Introduction to Mastermind Groups
While there are numerous formal and informal groups you can belong to that will boost your visibility in the community, one of the most powerful and rewarding is a Mastermind group. A Mastermind Group is all about developing an effective multi-disciplinary team of...
Getting Centers of Influence (COIs) On Board
You realize the value of networking with Centers of Influence (COIs), and you understand how to get clients to share the names of their COIs. You’ve scheduled a meeting with them, and carefully prepared. However, after diligently following the appropriate discovery...
