NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS
WORKING WITH DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES
Stuart & Shaye Elliott
JUMP INTO THE
DEEP END
“If everyone could just get
one Diamond check, they
would do anything to get
to Diamond.”
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DISCOVER YOUR LEADERS’ MOTIVATIONS. “After attending a
training on personalities, I was enlightened. I came back and dissected each
of my builders. I pulled apart what motivates and encourages them, and what
makes them feel loved and respected.”
TAILOR YOUR METHODS TO INDIVIDUALS. “Now, I tailor whatever
I want to do specifically to each builder. Some are motivated by recognition,
others by relationships, and others by products. I’m continually learning how to
lead them better.”
Some readers were unhappy when Shaye
started posting about dōTERRA on her
blog, but Shaye soon realized that she
deserved to make money for all of her
hard work. She says, “Overcoming my fear
fter years of using essential oils
of rejection or of not making everyone
and posting about them on her
happy all the time was critical to my
blog, Shaye Elliott noticed that her
success.” She’s seen that she will always
friend Jill Winger had started blogging
interact with people who have a negative
about dōTERRA. Both Shaye and Jill
view of what she does, but she can’t let
had homestead blogs and ran in the
that hold her back. “Almost everyone who
same virtual circles. Shaye reached out
is not advancing as quickly as they would
to Jill about dōTERRA and signed up
like to in dōTERRA is holding themselves
without ordering a kit. When she got
in their own personal mental jail: ‘I can’t do
her packet of information in the mail,
sales’ or ‘People won’t like me if I suggest
she let it sit on her desk for a month,
this product’ or ‘I’m afraid I’ll look stupid
too overwhelmed to read it all. Jill finally
if I teach a class.’ You have to learn to
convinced her to open it, and Shaye
conquer your own mind. Be willing to
quickly saw how easy it would be to
jump into the deep end, and don’t stop.”
integrate dōTERRA into her blog.
RECOGNIZE YOUR DIFFERENCES “In the beginning, I treated all my
leaders the same—the way I wanted to be treated. I tried to incentivize them
with things that would work for me, but those things didn’t motivate them to
work toward something at all.”
Now, Shaye can enjoy blogging about the
“We need to realize
Shaye was interested in the business
things she is passionate about without
right away, and after she saw a picture of
worrying about how she will make money.
Jill walking the carpet at convention as a
Her husband, Stuart, is now able to
Diamond, she knew she was going to be
work part-time with his teaching job just
Diamond too. She says, “I wasn’t going
because he wants to, not because he
Sharing the oils is
to stop until I got there. I’m finding more
needs to. They are bot h able to spend
and more that the only people who aren’t
most of their time at home with their
important, but it’s equally
successful in dōTERRA are the people
children. Shaye says, “dōTERRA has given
who quit trying. To me, that’s great news,
us the freedom to pursue whatever
because the only person that can stop you
dreams we can come up with. Not many
from hitting Diamond is yourself.”
people get to have that freedom.”
dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2015
what a gold mine we’re
sitting on with dōTERRA.
as important that we
share and celebrate the
business aspect.”
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