Short and Sweet
So we talked about how important short and sweet messages are to our employees. It is crucial that your team get your messages and understand them fully.
Steps to ensuring your emails are connecting with your team:
Outline your email messages to ensure you hit each priority
Start with the outline and then expand on each one with 3 additional thoughts (more than 3 and your team will not be able to stay focused)
Send more messages that are short and your team will be so much more responsive.
Use bullet points for simplification. Look at the example below:
EXAMPLE:
Team we need to accomplish several things today. As you know from our last two emails we must ensure that the role out of the new process is successful. First please ensure that ll your team is in the office tomorrow by seven in the morning. Second make sure that your team has read the instructions and understands their roles and how important it is that each person is able to do their job perfectly. Finally, have your team leads gather their teams at the end of the training to recap their progress and determine if there are any best practices that need to be implemented across other team. Thanks
SIMPLIFIED EXAMPLE:
While we are on this topic, let me quickly mention something that we have not talked about yet. Self Analysis is critical for a successful leaders. We all have faults!! You have them. If you are aware of your faults then you are one step closer to “perfection” (tongue in cheek since none of us are perfect) but if you don’t constantly analyze all aspects of your sales management (and your life) then you are not getting better every day!
OK, so now we have seen how Simple is so much better. What about the Sweet? The sweet comes from the fact that if you have anything (I mean anything) negative to say to a person or a team, you need to do it voice to voice or face to face. DO NOT HIDE BEHIND AN EMAIL when delivering a negative message. Trust me, your team and your employees will appreciate your clarity live rather than on an email. In the next few days we are going to talk about several topics, if you have suggestions or questions, please post them so we can address them.
Have an incredible day!!!! Every leader makes a difference, is your one worth following?
So we talked about how important short and sweet messages are to our employees. It is crucial that your team get your messages and understand them fully.
Steps to ensuring your emails are connecting with your team:
Outline your email messages to ensure you hit each priority
Start with the outline and then expand on each one with 3 additional thoughts (more than 3 and your team will not be able to stay focused)
Send more messages that are short and your team will be so much more responsive.
Use bullet points for simplification. Look at the example below:
EXAMPLE:
Team we need to accomplish several things today. As you know from our last two emails we must ensure that the role out of the new process is successful. First please ensure that ll your team is in the office tomorrow by seven in the morning. Second make sure that your team has read the instructions and understands their roles and how important it is that each person is able to do their job perfectly. Finally, have your team leads gather their teams at the end of the training to recap their progress and determine if there are any best practices that need to be implemented across other team. Thanks
SIMPLIFIED EXAMPLE:
- Team we need to accomplish several things today:
- Please have your team in the office by 7:00 a.m.
- Please make sure each member of your team has read their roles and responsibilities
- Please have an end of day meeting to ensure that best practices are shared
While we are on this topic, let me quickly mention something that we have not talked about yet. Self Analysis is critical for a successful leaders. We all have faults!! You have them. If you are aware of your faults then you are one step closer to “perfection” (tongue in cheek since none of us are perfect) but if you don’t constantly analyze all aspects of your sales management (and your life) then you are not getting better every day!
OK, so now we have seen how Simple is so much better. What about the Sweet? The sweet comes from the fact that if you have anything (I mean anything) negative to say to a person or a team, you need to do it voice to voice or face to face. DO NOT HIDE BEHIND AN EMAIL when delivering a negative message. Trust me, your team and your employees will appreciate your clarity live rather than on an email. In the next few days we are going to talk about several topics, if you have suggestions or questions, please post them so we can address them.
Have an incredible day!!!! Every leader makes a difference, is your one worth following?
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