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Training Games To Play At Your Next Meeting
Make your next meeting productive, memorable and FUN!
Have A NO Session
Help team members handle rejection. Face pairs together. One person asks questions, the other answers no over and over. Then switch roles. Give each person five minutes.
This will show them that not everyone says yes. And it will help them deal with the rejection each time. The more rejection, the easier and less personal it gets.
Four Ways To Use Our 2,340 Book In Your Next Meeting
Pardon the blatant sales pitch here, but many marketing/training directors are using 2,340 as a training manual for their monthly meetings. Suggestions include:
- Give it to three people to pick out his/her favorite ideas
- Ask a team member to pick a random page number, flip to that page and implement an idea from it
- Give to team members as gifts for reaching sales/productivity goals
- Take a chapter a week and focus on:
*leasing
*marketing
*resident retention
*staff retention
*self improvement.
Creating slogans help jump start meetings, plus you have new tag lines for ads. Here are some examples from a meeting in Atlanta (AMENITY/TAG LINES). It's also fun to think of marketing promotions paired with candy bars.
-You're Worth 100 Grand
-M&M's From Your Management & Maintenance Teams
-Bit O' Honey - Bee Right Back
-Score! You Hit A Home Run! (get it HOME run?!).
AMENITY/TAG LINES
Make a list of your amenities and create tag lines for them. The more creative the better!
Volleyball Courts
Our residents have a ball!
Bounce Your Life Back
Join us for Superball Saturday
Spike Up Your Life
Weight Room
Get Physical
Work Out Your Stress
Lift Your Standards Higher
We Know Where Our Strengths Are
We Cater To Your Strengths
Stamps In The Office
Stick With Us!
First Class Delivery
You Are First Class
Swimming Pools
Dive On In
Splash On By
Make A Splash
Wade Out Your Troubles
Relax
Slide Right In
Laundry Facilities
Tide Is High (free sample of Tide)
Bounce Into Our Community (free Bounce sheet)
You'll cheer about our laundry rooms (free sample of Cheer)
Wash all of your cares away
Start a new Era (free sample of Era)
*Ask your appliance vendor for free samples
Get 'Em Geared Up
Bring in some toys from home and ask groups to make up stories with the items. Bring in anything unrelated - but make sure the objects are large enough for the whole room to see them. Give each team 8 minutes to develop the story, 3 minutes to tell it.
Another variation: Ask each participant to bring one object to the meeting. Starting with one person, ask them to begin a story with the object in it (Once upon a time there was a blue pen.). The next person has to add to the story incorporating his/her object.