Quick morning meetings: How to make them effective

Quick meetings held on mornings before work can be a great way to prepare the business team for the work day ahead of them. They can be especially beneficial for sales teams.

Here are several reasons why you should stick to the system of morning briefings and what they should be like.

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Brevity

According to the Eyes On Sales server, morning meetings must be brief and short. They should not exceed 15 minutes (more or less), even if everything on the agenda hasn't been covered. The main aim of quick morning meetings is to motivate the salespeople, not make them tired.

Praise

Many managers just deal with problems. There's nothing really bad about this, given that problems are equally balanced with praise for individual salespeople. Motivate them in a positive way and remember that a kind word from a superior can do wonders.

Role playing

A great way to prepare businesspeople for the work ahead is to do a role play in which one plays a customer and the other a sales rep. Learn to solve the most typical and most frustrating problems that salespeople encounter.

Employee initiatives

Morning meetings shouldn't just be a purely mentoring monologue, they should involve interactive brainstorming when people can say whatever they want. The team leader should listen to the workers' initiatives as they might have interesting insights into various problems.

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