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Training For Team Building – Create Meetings With Themes & Exciting Topics
One of the best ways to keep up the attendance at your direct sales consultants’ meetings is to have fun and exciting team training meetings. Creating team meetings with exciting topics and themes will keep your team guessing as to what is coming next. Good meetings will keep them coming back for more!
Chickens and Stars: A week or so before the team training, send a postcard or email and do a phone call, telling everyone to bring a can of Chicken And Stars soup.
No other explanation is necessary. You are creating an aura of intrigue. “What is she up to now?!”
Then at the meeting, have a segment on networking, phone calls or anything you want, and the “theme” is “Are you a STAR?” Define being a STAR:
- Do you talk to people everywhere you go?
- Do you make a commitment to ask three people per day to host a show, and then DO it?
- Any topic you want really…
Or are you a CHICKEN? Define being a CHICKEN:
- Do you make plans and then chicken out?
- Do you say you are going to do it then don’t?
Tell everyone to keep the soup can next to the phone and look at it until the next meeting to decide if they are a chicken or a star.
Team Building Ideas – Seasonal Themes – Christie Northrup
Christie Northrup is the number one authority on team building themes. Well-known for putting a sweet twist on sour situations, the Lemon Aid Lady, as she calls herself, has a wide variety of seasonal or unique team training themes.
One of my favorite themes is the October meeting theme of “Them Bones” which is part of her theme training programs.
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The objective is to have a fun Halloween theme and use it to illustrate that something is the back BONE of your business.
The back BONE is the most important part of your body and the back bone of your business is the most important part of the business. I used to use this theme to talk about host coaching, which I believe truly is the back bone of the direct sales business.
Good hostess coaching will help your team find more bookings & recruits. More themes from the Lemon Aid Lady.
Johnny Appleseed Meeting: Tell everyone to bring a package of seeds. This is another one of my favorite theme meetings. Is your team planting the seeds for the future? What we do in our business today will affect our business most in three months.
Creating a theme and asking everyone to bring a package of their favorite seeds will generate curiosity and a meeting topic that is fun. Everyone will bring different kinds of seeds showing that we all run our business differently. Are you planting the seeds today so that you can reap the harvest down the road?
Sales Meeting Tips – Creative Meeting Ideas Connect Team Members
Sometimes it is important to bring another speaker in to talk with your team. Outside speakers who bring in new ideas and team building training tips will keep the team interested. Even if the speaker is presenting the same message that you are it will make a huge impact when heard from someone else.
A simple topic that you may already have presented like the value of fairs and expos to generate new business will be more powerful when presented by a new messenger. Creating meetings that are unique and different every month will insure that your team sales consultants keep coming back. When a team connects at the meeting, they become more committed to their business because they are committed to friendships. Be creative with your meeting ideas by investing in team building training programs and make every meeting different.
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Thank-You for all the effort you put into the business…you are such a wonderful part of our businesses and our growth !
I love the Chicken & Stars. There are times when I’ve been both!
Really good info…Now I just need that team!!!
This entire post was exciting to read! Every suggestion made me smile. What better way to get you superstars and upcoming stars on the right path is such a fun way (and yourself too)! Again, taking the bordom factor out of anything relating to the success of my business is so valuable. The trainings will “root” (forgive the pun, LOL) deeper and trickle down your entire network!
Wow, I liked the Team Trainings Theme Booking Tree and the chicken and stars. I have so say that I have been on both ends of this one myself.
Thanks so much. I do need help making my meetings more valuable. (ps the Link for the Lemon Aid Lady is broken)
Thanks, LISA for reporting that broken link…. I love that!! Fixed, she must have changed her web site and did not tell me! LOL – I appreciate it!
I don’t have a theme to share, as I have not been to meetings (only webinars)……but I absolutely love the chicken and stars idea. This is what you call outside of the box thinking. I think I will go get one out of my cabinet now! Thank you Deb Bixler!
“Ring” In the New Year is the theme for our January meeting. We sell jewelry so have lots of rings we can use to make our points on booking, selling and recruiting. January is the last month of our catalog too so we go over ways to use the retiring jewelry this month to upsell, book using retiring pcs. as hostess gifts, etc.
We also use our January meeting to set our goals for 2012. We do this as a team and have accountability partners that the team members pick themselves.
I love team meetings. We always do fun activities to keep interest up!
I first learned about doing Theme Team meetings from Christie Northrup as my first Direct Sales company didn’t teach that. I live so far from my team so I have used the info in different ways for email and phone meetings.
I first learned about doing Theme Team meetings from Christie Northrup as my first Direct Sales company didn\’t teach that. I live so far from my team so I have used the info in different ways for email and phone meetings. Also love the idea on the booking tree!
I love the Chicken & Stars. Ive done Star Trek, go to places no consultant has gone before. Leaving your comfort zone!
Wow – What a cool theme idea Shirlynn – Would you like to write a guest blog article on that one! Love IT!
In my hypnotherapy class one day we all brought photos of ourselves as little children. The theme of the training was getting to know our Inner Child.
That is a really cool one too, Judy! Thanks for sharing it.
I have to say that this is one of my greatest challenges right now. My team has just simply not been engaged to attend meetings – either live or online. This is a new challenge for me so I appreciate this training a lot.
I don’t have much of a team to speak of as of yet…but this article gives me a great idea of how to get them motivated when I do!
My team is nonexistent right now but this is the year I am going to build it because my company has now given us the right tools to be able to recruit! I am looking forward to it and trying out some of these ideas when I start my own meetings.
My team is me and 2 others and currently my leaders takes us in and helps out because I am not big enough. This info with be very helpful in the very near future and I like the idea for the themed team meetings.
I needed this info today – I’m pending to go into Director status soon and will have the opportunity to have my own meetings. Good stuff to know
kool ideas! Ty
I have not had an opportunity to do a Team Meeting yet as my team is spread all over the U.S. I am in the process of researching low cost or free video conferencing so that I can do team meetings via the internet rather than just a phone conference. At the very least I want to find something that will allow me to present images and writings via the computer as I speak. Any advice on a program would be appreciated!
Hey KerrieLynn – long distance team meetings can follow almost the same guidelines as local team meetings. This is the link for the first of 4 articles on planning effective team meetings and includes online meetings:
http://www.createacashflowshow.com/education-training/successful-team-meetings.htm
I recommend trying GoToWebinar they have a free 30 day trial service or the one I am using that is really affordable is LiveOnlineMeetings.
Great information – love the chicken and stars – will use that at my next team meeting! Terry
I am just getting started building my team and look forward to having team meetings SOON! Thanks for the great ideas!
99% of my team of almost 3,000 are spread out all over the USA from the East Coast to the West Coast and in between. I do hold weekly team meetings via a conference call and, I’ll be honest, I LOVE OUR TEAM MEETINGS!! I plan and prepare and put my heart into these meetings and I am always SO excited for each call, only to end up with a hand-full who call in. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am SOOOOO appreciative of the ones that do call in … I just wish the “live” turn-out was better. I realize the low attendance can be a number of things from different time zones to the calls possibly being on someone’s party night, etc. and, I try not to beat myself up over it, but I do have to wonder how I can get more to call in. I do record the calls and several listen to the recording. So Deb, if you read this, do you think I should maybe consider meetings via Skype? (Honestly, I’m not even sure how Skype works, lol) You KNOW I can act silly and if that’s what it takes to get more consultants to call in, then I’ll be a clown for a night!! LOL :O)
Hey Phyllis, Skype is cool but it is difficult to record the visuals unless you have a screen cast recorder of some kind. I commented on someone elses about webinar services and copied it below as well.
Long distance team meetings can follow almost the same guidelines as local team meetings. This is the link for the first of 4 articles on planning effective team meetings and includes online meetings:
http://www.createacashflowshow.com/education-training/successful-team-meetings.htm
I recommend trying GoToWebinar they have a free 30 day trial service or the one I am using that is really affordable is LiveOnlineMeetings.
One thing that I noticed about webinars vs teleseminars is that the people do not interact as much as they do NOT have a microphone so, unless they are inspired to join in a webinar because they see more value I am not sure…. Something to play with. Maybe try a free service once and hype it up and see what happens.
making meetings fun and informative is as important as making our parties fun and informative. Don’t we all love to party? Thanks Deb for helping us to have fun too.
Love these handouts to add to my DRSU training, thanks!
I’m hoping I can use this information to bless our group’s meetings.
Blessings! Judy
Love the Chicken and Stars!!!
And,would love to hear about the Star Trek one!
yes, chicken and stars is one of my FAVORITE all time training themes, Linda!
Phyllis…your team meetings are the BEST! Fabulous information, Deb!