Although you’re entitled to create and run free informal Success Teams, those who have not applied and been accepted by my organization as Registered Success Team leaders are not permitted to use my online materials, even if you were a member of an official team.

Also, the following applies to leaders running informal teams without the online materials:

1) I cannot refer people to you and you must make it clear to all members you recruit on your own that you are not trained by me, nor certified by me. The reason: I am both morally and possibly legally responsible for people I refer and only with trained and certified facilitators who have signed an agreement to use the methods I designed can I be sure of what goes on in a Success Team.

2) You will not be a part of the ongoing online leader's support system.

3) You will not be listed in my websites as a Success Team Leader.

4) You will not be able to run Success Teams in corporations and other organizations without my permission. You must also make it clear wherever you run Success Teams that you are self-trained and not licensed by my organization.

5) You must credit me for any material you use from my books. 

You'll use the Pre-Certification materials to sign people up and get them together for the meetings. After everyone sits down, they'll be handed their own Success Teams notebook with worksheets. You'll tell them to open to the proper page and you'll turn on the audio of Barbara discussing the learning that will go on at that week's meeting.

The audio CD will direct every step of the meetings. It will explain what everyone needs to know, tell them which worksheet to use, and give careful instructions for the next step. It will even tell you when to turn it off and on again! (The 8 Week Success Teams Workshop kit has been in use for over 25 years, and it works very well.)

Each week of the 8 week workshop is designed to teach new Success Teams skills to its members so that at the end of the 8 weeks, they can keep having meetings on their own, for as long as they like At the end of the 8 weeks, they'll also have a plan of action, and a number of contacts to follow up. And they'll know how to support each other, and how to avoid the pitfalls that make a team fall apart.

The SUCCESS TEAMS STARTUP KIT includes a 60-sec radio commercial which has proven for years to generate many calls for information. [Click here to hear the commercial],

You'll be given professionally prepared flyers with testimonials about Barbara Sher's Success Teams from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, major newspapers and women's magazines and Fortune 100 companies.

You'll also receive instructions on how, when and where to post these flyers.

You'll get sample ads to place in your local newspaper.

You'll be given instructions on how to get local radio and TV interviews to promote Success Teams and send many phone calls your way.

If Barbara runs a workshop in your town, you'll be handed a list, usually with dozens of names on it, of people from that workshop who have signed up to be in a Success Team. They will be your ready-made list of potential Success Team members.

Your STARTUP KIT will provide you with full instructions on how to handle all questions. Remember, this is not a sales job. We don't want you pressuring anyone to join a Success Team and you don't want people in your Success Team who are reluctant to be there. However, anyone has the right to understand what a Success Teams is before they join one, so you'll have the following options.

1) You can refer them to SherSuccessTeams.com where they can look at photos and real-life success stories, read excerpts from Sher's books or go to Amazon.com to read reviews, read testimonial letters from Success Teams graduates there.

2) You can ask them if they'd like to give you their e-mail address so you can notify them of any open-to-the-public events and Idea Parties you may be running.

3 ) You can invite them to an informal Question and Answer get-together at a coffeeshop or restaurant.

Before you know it, you'll have people lining up to be in your Success Team. You'll be given complete instructions on how to follow up, how to collect fees, etc.

You won't have to know. You'll play the audio CD of Barbara's introduction to Success Teams. I'll explain more fully below, but first, listen if you like to the opening words.

After that, Barbara's voice and the workbook will take over.

It's completely coordinated with Barbara's voice on the audio CD. She'll give instructions on how to proceed, and since her audio instructions are coordinated with the worksheets, a Success Team can theoretically run itself without a leader using these materials. But in most cases, a real-life facilitator makes a big difference in the team continuing over time and sticking to guidelines.

No. Great team leaders sincerely want to help people. While they can sell people on themselves with utter sincerity, they may not be great salespeople in any other way. You'll be given all the materials and methods you need (see above) to get people to call you or come together for a Question & Answer get-together. If people are still uncertain, you will never try to convince them. Even if you are a great salesperson, I don't want you to apply the slightest pressure to persuade people to commit to a Success Team.

In the long run, your teams will be far more successful if they're made up of people who want very much to be there.For those who remain uncertain, ask them if they want to be notified of other informal get-togethers, send them to the ShersSuccessTeams.com site or to the local bookstore to look at Sher's books and let them decide if they like her approach. Tell them to call you if they want any further information. And let them go.

You'll be left with exactly the kinds of people you want to work with, interested, cooperative, self-starting and most likely to stick with the team after your 8 week involvement with them is over.

As soon as they "graduate", the Success Team members will run their team on their own for as long as they want to.

You should stay in touch with them, keep up with their progress and invite them to Idea Parties given by your next Success Teams. You might also consider having a big Idea Party once or twice a year where everyone comes together. We'll give you instructions on how to assemble and run it. And you should encourage them to share any successes, large or small, with you and with their online support list.

Once they're independent, the teams may find that they need your help every now and then to get them back on track. Success Teams create friendships, and it's not always easy to hang on to the focus and structure on their own. When you come in to help, you will charge $35 a person for the "Team Clinic."

As soon as you've run one Success Team, you will be licensed to copy all the workbooks and other materials from the 8-Week Workshop Kit -- everything but the audio CD -- and use them to run as many 8 Week Success Team Workshops as you wish. You can use the names you've gotten from Barbara's Success Teams engagements (if one was held in your town) to put together many teams. You are also are encouraged to continue to put up fliers, use the radio commercials and the other methods outlined in the Pre-Certification materials to continue to make people aware of existance of Success Teams and to generate one Success Team after another. Some facilitators find that they have 2 or 3 Success Teams running at once when they continue to use the materials they were given.

Also, since the seventh week of every team is an Idea Party thrown for the benefit of the Success Team members and attended by as many as 20 non-members (friends and acquaintances invited by the members) every 8-Week Success Teams Workshop will introduce many new people to the magic of Success Teams. You'll have signup sheets available for them and you'll find a number of them wanting to sign up for the next available Success Team.

No. All certified leaders are interviewed and overseen personally by Barbara and her staff.

Since we don't want you to ever do a "hard sell" to bring people in to Success Teams and we won't allow you to train others in a pyramid or multi-level-marketing structure, so you'll never get rich running Success Teams.

You'll have permission to reproduce and use all the pre-cert materials and to reproduce the workbooks to run as many teams as you like. Some people run 5 or more Success Teams a year.

Barbara will almost always give you permission to do that. Since you won't be paying for online assistance, but you will be receiving it, the answer will depend on how much help we have available.