Prioritize your Ignite Work

Achieving our Ignite goals is a step by step process.  In order to reach our goals, we need to start each week with a time of evaluation and planning.  In this evaluation, it is essential that we discern our most important priorities.  John Maxwell shares the Pareto Principle in Developing the Leader within You.  It simply is: 20 percent of your priorities will give you 80 percent of your production IF you spend your time, energy, money, and personnel on the top 20 percent of your priorities (pg. 20).  So, how does this apply to our Ignite businesses?

The first priority of all Ignite Associates is to sign up for their website and then switch their own electric bill, if possible.  Then, the new associate needs to watch all of the training videos especially the one on Customer Enrollment.  This is critical because enrolling one more customer is the only thing that will trigger Immediate Income for the new associate and Leadership Income for their upline.  No one gets paid at all if the new associate fails to have their second customer point in ‘pending’ status by the end of their first 30 days. 

Priority #1:  Accomplish your 4 customer points within the first week of joining Ignite.

Once this is achieved, the new associate and their sponsor need to make it their priority to train the new associate in setting appointments.  It takes practice to learn how to avoid mixing the invitation and the presentation.  The new associate needs to make it their priority to watch all of the remaining training videos on their Ignite Power Center.  Also, their sponsor needs to invest at least 2 hours into their new associate showing them how to use the Power Center and helping them to develop their Why and their Ignite goals.  Role playing both doing invitations and presentations are great ways to learn to do both effectively.  The sponsor needs to encourage their new associate to attend the first Ignite Academy that is offered.  Ignite Academies are great, intensive training sessions that are invaluable for both old and new associates.  They are also available on the SUCCESS CD’s and through www.plugintoignite.com.

Priority #2:  Complete all training videos, meet for individual training with your sponsor, and attend an Ignite Academy.

Lastly, to be successful in Ignite is simple.  All an associate has to do is set appointments, show the plan, and plug into meetings.  Mastering the invitation takes practice as does showing the plan.  Thankfully, using the DVD of the presentation makes that easy.  The key to setting appointments is simply picking up the phone and calling people with whom you already have a relationship.  Spend some time catching up with them, and then ask them to set a time to watch the videos, attend a meeting or listen to a webinar.  But, none of this happens unless the associate initiates contact.

Priority #3: Initiate contact with friends and set appointments.

Make your contact list as long as possible.  Set weekly goals for how many people you will contact and then pick up the phone.  One of the beautiful things about Ignite is how fluid it is.  It can fit into the nooks and crannies of your day, but you won’t fit it in to your day, if you don’t make it a priority and plan to do it.  Choose to make Ignite part of your top 20 percent of your priorities, and watch it start to produce at a fourfold rate!