Should you provide any criticism of your downline at all? In a network marketing business, it’s crucial to your success that you build a downline; i.e., sign up people under you on your team. But should you also be giving them constructive criticism on how they’re running their business? Personally, no. I wouldn’t provide any criticism at all unless your team member specifically asks it. Your team members in your downline are small business owners themselves; you’re not their Boss, and you wouldn’t tell another business owner how to run his business. What you should be doing is simply reassuring them that you’re there to help if they need it because even constructive criticism can come across the wrong way to some people. And the last thing you want is for your team members to start dropping out of the program because they might think they’re doing everything wrong. Visit Working at Home with KSMusselman http://ksmusselman.com

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Should You Give Constructive
Criticism to Your Team Members
Should you provide any criticism of your
downline at all?
In a network marketing business, it’s crucial to your success that you build a downline; i.e.,
sign up people under you on your team. But should you also be giving them constructive
criticism on how they’re running their business?
Personally, no. I wouldn’t provide any criticism at all unless your team member specifically
asks it. Your team members in your downline are small business owners themselves; you’re

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not their Boss, and you wouldn’t tell another business owner how to run his business.
What you should be doing is simply reassuring them that you’re there to help if they need it
because even constructive criticism can come across the wrong way to some people. And
the last thing you want is for your team members to start dropping out of the program
because they might think they’re doing everything wrong.
So How Can You Be a Successful Team
Leader?
Here are some suggestions:
Share your marketing strategy.
If you have a plan or strategy in place that is working, just share it with your downline and
touch on the importance of duplication, but at the same time remind them that they’re running
their own business and if they have a strategy that’s working well for them, you’re open to
hearing about it.
Share your online business ideas.
Reach out to your downline at least once a week with online business ideas that you have
and ask for their ideas too. It’s always possible that people who have signed up with you may
have more experience in MLM or online business in general, so you can all teach other new
tricks and tips that make the whole team profitable.
Sharing and Duplication
Being a team leader in a network marketing company is all about sharing and duplication, so
it’s important that you have a strategy in place for doing that. But I personally believe that a
team leader shouldn’t critique another person’s business operations unless they’re
specifically asked to.
For example, you might be having great success at Facebook marketing, but some of your
team members don’t like Facebook, so they’re using Twitter or Google+. Instead of providing
even constructive criticism about how important it is to be using Facebook, ask them what

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their strategies are for using Twitter and Google+.
Another team member might be crushing it using Pinterest. Get their input on using Pinterest
and share your strategy for Facebook.
Once you have all of your team members ideas, put together an email or video tutorial to
share with the whole team and explain that one strategy for one marketing venue isn’t any
better than the other, and just suggest that might want to try something different and add it to
their own marketing strategies.
If they don’t ask for it – don’t give it.
You might think your team members are doing it all wrong, but it’s not up to you, as a team
leader, to provide any type of constructive criticism to them unless they contact you and
specifically ask for your opinion.
And when you do give them an opinion, make sure it’s just that – an opinion. We all
marketing in different ways depending on what we like to do best. And the more you enjoy
what you do, the more consistent you’ll be at it, and the more successful too.