Why Weekly Team Calls Keep Your Business On Track (Core Commitment 7)
David Wood tells his audience that the sixth core commitment is the simplest one yet: show up on a phone call every Monday night at 9 p.m. Eastern time, every week, for the next 52 weeks straight.
A phone number to save right now
David asks people to pull out their phones and save a number on the spot. The call is called Empower Hour, and it happens once a week on an audio line. He gives the number as plus one, area code 641, 715-3602, noting that he adds the plus one because he lives internationally and it lets him dial from anywhere in the world. He tells listeners in the United States they don’t necessarily need the plus one, but the call itself is fixed: Monday night, 9 p.m. Eastern. He also mentions that details will be sent out for attending online as well as by phone.
He is specific about what he wants done in the moment, not just noted for later:
Pull out your phone, you can go ahead and pause the video. We’ll also have this right below the video, okay? And I want you to put this phone number into your phone, save it as Empower Hour, and then I want you to put a reminder on your phone for 9 p.m. Eastern time Monday night.
The commitment has two parts
The first part is attendance: dial in every single week for 52 weeks straight. The second part, he says, is just as important: promote those calls to your team and to your contacts every week. Over the course of a year, he says the calls do two things. They keep people on the right track with what’s actually happening in the community and with the results people are creating right now, and they deliver strategy, vision, and tactics for growing the business further.
Why weekly, and why it takes a year to show
David’s reasoning for the weekly cadence is organizational: he says this is how you hold an organization together, and that if you don’t meet every week, the organization starts to degrade. He is direct about the timeline of results as well, telling the group not to expect a single call to change anything by itself:
It’s not gonna make a difference in a day because that’s not how success is built. Success is built daily, not in a day, but it will make a massive difference to you over the course of 52 weeks.
He asks the group to agree out loud to do it, gets a “yes,” and congratulates them before moving on to what he describes as the last core commitment.
The disclosure that follows the pitch
Right after the commitment, David’s talk includes the standard earnings disclosure attached to the offer. It states that results will vary since everyone is unique and different, that it takes hard work to make a substantial income in the business, and that some people will make no money at all. It states that earnings of an Empower Network affiliate are 100 percent dependent on their skills, work effort, commitment, leadership capabilities, and market conditions. It notes that in most opportunities, some individuals perform well above average while others perform under it, and it states plainly that Empower Network does not guarantee any level of income or success. Listeners are pointed to the full income disclosure at www.EmpowerNetwork.com forward slash income.
Written up from the original recording. The full transcript is below.
Read the full transcript (3 min talk, 598 words)
Hey, congratulations on getting this far. We've only got two core commitments left. And this one's actually really simple. We gather once a week, Monday night at 9 p.m. Eastern time on an audio call called Empower Hour. Now we'll actually send you out details where you can attend this on the internet as well.
But you can dial into this number from your phone. So here's actually what I want you to do is I want you to save this number in your phone, all right? It is, I put plus one there because I live internationally and so if I put plus one, I can dial it from anywhere in the world. But you don't necessarily need to do that if you're in the United States, but it's plus one, 641 area code, 715-3602. That's 9 p.m. Eastern time.
Now this core commitment has two parts. Part number one is to actually attend those calls every single week for the next 52 weeks. That's what I want you to do. Monday night, 9 p.m. Eastern time for 52 weeks straight. That's part number one.
Part number two is just as important. And that's to make sure to promote those calls to your team and promote those calls to your contacts every single week because those calls, what they're gonna do over a period of a year is they're gonna help you to make sure that you stay on the right track with what's actually happening in the community with the results that people are creating right now and it's actually gonna also give you strategy, vision, and tactics to be able to grow your business and be able to take it to the next level, right? Why do we meet every single week? Because this is how you hold an organization together. If you don't meet every week, the organization starts to degrade and if you will get on those calls every single week, what I promise you is this, it's not gonna make a difference in a day because that's not how success is built. Success is built daily, not in a day, but it will make a massive difference to you over the course of 52 weeks.
So here's what I want you to do as part of this commitment. Pull out your phone, you can go ahead and pause the video. We'll also have this right below the video, okay? And I want you to put this phone number into your phone, save it as Empower Hour, and then I want you to put a reminder on your phone for 9 p.m. Eastern time Monday night and if you attend those calls every single week, it will transform you. Everybody here agree to do it?
Say yes? Yes. All right, go ahead and do it. We're gonna give you a hand and congratulations, move on to the last core commitment. I just wanna congratulate you. Practicality dictates that everyone's results will vary as we are all unique and different.
Basically, it takes hard work to make a substantial income in this business and some people will make no money at all. The earnings of an Empower Network affiliate will be 100% dependent upon their skills, work effort, commitment, leadership capabilities, and market conditions. Common sense would suggest that in most opportunities, one would find exceptional individuals performing well above average, while others perform under the average. Empower Network does not guarantee any level of income or your success. To see our full income disclosure, please visit our website at www.EmpowerNetwork.com forward slash income.