Discover the benefits of
     being an AIM mentor

The object of mentoring is to encourage the total growth of a less experienced AIM Member. What you do and how you do it will depend on the person you are mentoring as well as discussing the time you are both able to commit and what you will contribute. An AIM mentor is a role model, teacher, companion, support and resource for the person you are mentoring. A mentoring relationship can last as long as both parties feel there is a benefit. Sometimes it is just one or two meetings. You continue the relationship only if it continues to serve you both well.

So what does it take to be an AIM business or product mentor? It takes the same level of interest, commitment, and confidence in your own abilities that it takes to mentor a student. It also requires that you be sincerely interested in someone else’s growth. Mentoring a downline has its obvious benefits including the satisfaction of helping a fellow AIM Member with product information or building a business. Often those being mentored just need a bump in the right direction to realize AIM’s product health benefits and additional income from an AIM business.

Who becomes an AIM mentor? Why do they do it? Some were fortunate enough to have had a mentor and want to repay that. Others just want to help out, be a positive influence, or give something to a fellow AIM Member. Whatever your reason for being a mentor, you will find it a special experience. Nothing can quite match the self-satisfaction you get from sharing yourself and helping others.

A mentor should assume nothing. That is, your goal is to help someone become a more productive AIM Member. It is not unlike a mentor assisting a student. Find out what is needed and go about supplying it through your real-life experiences as an AIM Member. Consider the following when working with someone:

Set expectations of performance, offer challenging ideas, help build self-confidence, encourage professional behavior, offer friendship, confront negative behaviors and attitudes, teach by example, provide growth experiences, offer quotable quotes, explain how the AIM compensation plan works, coach the person being mentored, offer informed advice, encourage winning behavior, trigger self-awareness, be an inspiration, share critical knowledge, offer encouragement, and assist with goal setting and career success.

Want to know what catapulted Jim and Carolyn Kling, Janet Pauly, and Dr. Mary Ruth Swope to the very top of the AIM compensation plan? They mentored and continue to mentor new and long-time AIM Members in product knowledge and how AIM’s compensation plan can assist with income needs. They are teachers of the AIM story. It is work and there are setbacks. But, oh, the rewards! Financially, they all have done very well with their AIM businesses. They can calculate that. But there is no calculating how many people they have helped to improved health and wealth. How good they must feel to know that they were there with the right message at the right time for an AIM Member who needed some direction and encouragement.
Offer yourself to an AIM Member who needs a little help. There is one right there in your downline just hoping for the assistance. The Member may not have the courage to ask, you need to exercise some leadership and offer it.

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