Written By: Victoria DelFrate, Mortgage Business Coach, and creator of ICanPlan.biz, an inexpensive online business planning tool!
Do you remember—not so long ago—sitting in a room with 2,000 of your closest loan officer friends (not!) and having someone preach to you on how THEY get a million leads and HOW you can too—if only you buy their fool-proof systems?
Those “mega seminars" are gone (for now) and it has ushered in a new era of idea sharing called MASTERMIND GROUPS.
Mastermind groups are formed by professionals for a number of reasons—with the top three being:
- To generate new ideas and share best practices in an effort to increase revenue and create efficiencies in each member's businesses.
- To establish a space for accountability, goal setting and encouragement amongst entrepreneurs who are not necessarily reporting up to or being pushed by a Manager. (They are the captain of their own ship.)
- To network and cultivate possible referral relationships with other professionals.
Professionals generally enter into mastermind groups with great enthusiasm and high expectations. However, after six months to a year of meeting, many groups find that the excitement has a tendency to wane and unfortunately, the attendance then follows suit.
Here are 7 helpful tips to help keep your Mastermind group engaged, consistently attended and growing...
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