Leadership Magazines doTERRA Essential Leadership Magazine Issue 27 | Page 42

FEATURE ARTICLE Essential Advice THE OF COLLABORATION Are you interested in forming or joining a collaborative group yourself? Here are some tips! ■ Collaborate with those who share your values. “Find people you really connect with personally and share the same basic values and desires for their business.” –Amanda Beach ■  Allow your communication to fit your schedule. “We mastermind online, which means we make our conversations fit our schedules instead of needing to meet up at a specific time and location.” –Ashley Norville (@essentially_joilful) ■  Build a real connection first. “Let yourself be a friend, and don’t feel bad if you need to meet and engage with several people before you find those you want to collaborate with.” –Farrah Collver (@flourishessentials) ■ Keep it positive. “We all have moments of discouragement, but there’s no focus on negativity.” –Aimee Crouch Working with your upline and downline comes naturally for most builders, but how often do you work with someone completely outside of your team? Collaborating with those in your crossline and even outside of that can bring new perspectives and ideas that can benefit your business— not to mention new friendships! We talked to a group of seven dōTERRA leaders who came together through social media about how and why they work together. How It Started were a good fit to work together.” brought to the group by the others. a group of people who will pray or Because this group is focused on –Carrie Setian (@high.tide.essentials) They exchange business ideas, push celebrate with me. This group helps me expanding their dōTERRA business “I met Ashley through Instagram about each other in their goals, support brainstorm ways to take better care of strategy to include Instagram, they a year ago; I direct messaged her and each other through challenges, and my downline and communicate with my connected bit by bit via Instagram as shared that I loved her Instagram profile encourage each other to be their best— upline more effectively.” –Amanda Beach they noticed each other’s accounts. and admired what she was doing. We professionally and personally. (@naturally.healthy.living) Some of the group members are part of kept talking and exchanging ideas. She “Everyone in this group is encouraging, “You may be building your business in one another’s upline or downline, some said we should collaborate with others, supportive, and positive. Everyone comes a unique way that your upline has not are crossline, and some are connected and so she invited me to her group.” from different backgrounds, skillsets, and dived into yet. Finding others on a similar only through this group. The key was –Sara Worth (@oil_ohana) experiences, which brings a freshness journey can help provide you with the reaching out! and opportunity for innovation.” –Aimee support you need.” –Kayla Monson “We all connected on Instagram in one The Benefits Crouch (@beautifully_natural_oils) (@mywelloiledlife) As they have worked together, each “I love that I can be honest about my group member has seen the strengths struggles and my wins, and I have way or another. We were all attracted to one another’s accounts and knew we 42 dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I JULY / AUGUST 2017 Results not typical. Average earnings are less. See dōTERRA Opportunity and Earnings Disclosure Summary on doterra.com. ■  Don’t be nervous to work with others. “Don’t be afraid of people on other teams and of other ranks. The community and heart of dōTERRA are fully reflected in a group of leaders who come together to encourage and support each other.” –Ashley Norville ■  Invite others to collaborate. “You may have to flat out ask people. Some people may want to join you but might be too shy to ask.” –Carrie Setian doterra.com 43