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In work from home careers that involve direct sales or network marketing you are in a position of Leadership. That Leadership is of both yourself and your team of business associates.

Leadership in work from home careers

Legitimate work from home careers usually include some form of ongoing training and should focus on improving your personal development. Part of that personal development should also focus on, and reward, Leadership skills.

People who are new to this type of business are at different levels of leadership. However there is one thing that all writers on leadership have agreed. Rash decisions can lead to long term regrets.

The power of emotion over decision making

In the same way that buyers behave irrationally, there is no reason to believe that we as leaders always behave rationally. In fact social experiments have demonstrated an irrational yet predictable pattern of behavior.

People were asked a series of questions about what they would do in certain social situations. In the cold light of day their answers demonstrated they would always take the rational decision. However when those people were in situations where their emotions were high, their actual actions were completely different from their predictions.

In fact the higher the emotion the further away from their predicted response they moved. The relevance of this for Leaders in work from home careers is decision making regarding team members. If a member of your team does something that negatively impacts on your business or that of the team then you may feel annoyed. As a result you may also feel the need to want to criticize the person immediately.

From the above experiments the best course of action would be to write down your initial thoughts and then sleep on them for a night. Then the next day re-read those initial thoughts and you will probably find that you will want to ‘tone down’ your response. This proves the truth of a slightly different version of an old adage, ‘decide in haste, repent at leisure’.

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