Lazies, Crazies, Hazies, Daisies on your online business team. How do you recognize each one in your business and where should you place them?

As I was waking up this morning, I was pondering about the people on an online business team. I came up with 4 basic types of people that I've worked with and coached. I'll call them the Lazies, Crazies, Hazies, and Daisies. Each term is based on their individual business motivation or lack thereof. Every person has strengths and weaknesses, yet each one is so important to the team.

Lazies would be the "yellow" or phlegmatic types. These people are laid back, easygoing, sometimes slow, but very nurturing and caring. They are great to place with those in your team, who struggle with occasional "low" moments of wanting to give up, stand still, do nothing and lose hope. These yellow folks, are the "Mr Rogers" of business. Put them in charge of people who are great at the behind-the-scenes things, but just are unmotivated as far as face-to-face meetings or anything more confrontive.

Crazies, or blues or sanguines, should be, in my opinion, at the top of the leadership ladder, except for one crucial factor...they tend to be very disorganized, not seeing a reason to have a whole lot of structure in what they do. These people are the entertainers and can provide tremendous business motivation, while sporting a wide grin, a lot of joking and a cheerful image. Place them as far away from the serious business builders as possible. Let these people make the videos, the audios, chat on the phone (DO give them a script to learn though, or they will be making friends and forgetting they are in business to attain financial freedom too). Make business a game for these people, telling them step by step what to do and what the "Fun" reward will be when the task is completed.

Hazies, the green or melancholies, have the most awesome business skills of all! These people are born to organize and file everything in sight! If you are missing a paper, chances are, the hazy person has already found the "perfect" place "out of the way" for that paper. With people, the hazy will want to dig for details and try and figure out exactly what is what, so they can be sure their customer has all the info needed to make a wise, calculated decision. Business motivation for this type of person...well, first they have to be convinced in and of themselves, after much research and pondering, that it's even anything that they want to attempt. If there is any that even seems amiss, you won't see them hopping into your team, period. Place these people, if you were fortunate enough to have them with you, in charge of paperwork, bookwork, finances. They will take good care of those things for you!

Now, the Daisy...the reason I called the red or choleric person a daisy, is because they are the "flowers" of the bunch when it comes to leadership in business. These people will lead with an iron fist, much of the time, so keep the gentler folk away from them. The Daisy was created to sell, recruit, convince, connive people into business. They do not tolerate slackers or anything that appears to be a form of "ignorance" in their co-workers. They have no problem telling you exactly what they think about you, your endeavors, your way of running your business. Usually these people are at the top in any business plan and they tend to be in charge wherever they go, simply because leadership comes naturally to them. Place these people out in "the field" recruiting, talking, canvassing the entire area...but send another person with them who can keep them a bit tempered so they don't crush the potential customer with their confrontive nature. Welcome independent leadership in this person, because they are not real adept at being placed in a position of submission. They need to feel and be in charge.

So there they are...4 types of people I have run across. It's kind of a joke I have with a friend of mine...I tell her, "I've met a lot of people I'd NEVER want to try to initiate teamwork with, so now I know exactly what to look for in those who join me...the opposite of that!

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