To reconnect with the utmost enthusiasm to work after the holidays, an essential requirement that is not always achieved is necessary: switching off during the holidays.
If last year we gave on this same blog five ideas to give your sales force a boost in summer, this year we are going to give you some ideas to convey the utmost energy to your entire sales team in the dreaded month of September.
And it is not always easy to go from the calm of summer to the usual frenetic pace of the work environment. To this end, we propose five ideas or tricks that you can put into practice this September to ensure that your teams start the new season on the right foot.
1- Identify motivation points
If you detect in your team a general feeling of low spirits due to returning from the holiday period, you have to turn it around. Like the judoka who uses his opponent's strength to throw him, you have to use your team's feelings to achieve this group objective that will benefit us all.
And is it not true that if we work better, we might have better holidays next year, or at Christmas? If we work in a more pleasant environment, will we not go to work each morning with more enthusiasm? If we create moments of relaxation focused on improving our day-to-day, might our work not turn out better? Identify your team's motivation points and you will be surprised!
2- Create order for the whole team
On returning, it is inevitable to tidy your desk, your drawers and your office to achieve a harmony that, do not doubt it, will generate calm and wellbeing for you. The famous Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. But it is also necessary to tidy your work devices. In your company you can start with personal computers and the always terrible desktops, and finish with the sales reps' tablets.
This last task will be much simpler if your marketing team tidies up and updates all the documents shared on your content and sales management platform. Thus, when they open their tablets, the sales reps will feel the same “joy” as when the magic of tidying up reaches your home or your office.
3- Vote together on a new routine
In a well-known beer advert they told us that “whoever said you have to escape from routines did not get the phrase wrong, they got the routines wrong”. Surely in your work environment you have many routines, few of which generate much enthusiasm. Propose an anonymous brainstorming session and a vote to imagine some possible new routine that lights your way. Surely if the idea is supported by the whole team, involvement and success are guaranteed!
4- Limit communications by Whatsapp
On most smartphones the most used app daily is the instant messaging app Whatsapp. Its ease causes many clients and even work colleagues to communicate through it, but this generates a significant loss of time, especially if the phone used is a personal one. Between order and order, alerts from the group (or groups) of your family, your friends... or your children's class! Tell your work group to communicate through a single integrated system to avoid continuous interference. And for notices to all sales reps, you already know that you can use the notifications of your sales platform.
5- Prepare a presentation to face the future
Surely during the holidays you have had many ideas that you want to put into practice, or that at least you would like to share with the team. But the first day of work arrives, “hello, how were your holidays” “very good, thanks”, you open your email and everyone gets to work. Put a stop to it! Block out at least a whole morning of work and send your whole team an internal presentation through the platform so that you can then share it and make the most of it.
And you, do you already know how to recover your energy after the holidays?
