2012 Olympic gold rush – meeting your goals
What a fantastic time to be British!
Its such a great atmosphere here in the UK as so many of our athletes are achieving personal bests and getting medals in their home Olympics. Everyone in the country is smiling and we are waking up to Breakfast TV with positive news, rather than the doom and gloom the journalists normally seem to want to infect our lives with.
At Win Marketing it feels like we all have a spring in our step at the moment, starting the day on a positive, really does have a knock on effect in the workplace. Customers have always seen us as supporting them, and providing answers to their problems, but it is so much easier to smile and be happy when you wake up to positive news.
So what lessons can we learn in the sales and marketing environment from this wonderful Olympic Games?
We have all heard so many Team GB winners talking about their goals, coping with pressure and staying focused. There are so many comments we have heard from the athletes that have a relevance to us achieving in the workplace.
We have listed below 10 areas to help you start to plan for success in the sales environment.
Know what is is you want to achieve?
Know why – understand what it really means to you
Know when you want to achieve it by?
Identify what you need to do.
Quantify what this means in activity levels – Break it down to really underdstand what that means to you on a daily, weeky, monthly basis
Be genuine to yourself, is this realistic? If not, readjust your goals.
How will you monitor your performance?
How will you stay motivated when the negative times come about?
What small rewards can you give to yourself and your team on the way to recognise achievements?
Keep the image in your mind. What will achieving your goals mean? What reminder can you give yourself to stay focused.
Hopefully this quick blog post has given you a few thoughts to reflect on. Remember, you can improve your reasonable best and achieve that gold if you really want to.
Good luck!
What a fantastic time to be British!
Its such a great atmosphere here in the UK as so many of our athletes are achieving personal bests and getting medals in their home Olympics. Everyone in the country is smiling and we are waking up to Breakfast TV with positive news, rather than the doom and gloom the journalists normally seem to want to infect our lives with.
At Win Marketing it feels like we all have a spring in our step at the moment, starting the day on a positive, really does have a knock on effect in the workplace. Customers have always seen us as supporting them, and providing answers to their problems, but it is so much easier to smile and be happy when you wake up to positive news.
So what lessons can we learn in the sales and marketing environment from this wonderful Olympic Games?
We have all heard so many Team GB winners talking about their goals, coping with pressure and staying focused. There are so many comments we have heard from the athletes that have a relevance to us achieving in the workplace.
We have listed below 10 areas to help you start to plan for success in the sales environment.
Know what is is you want to achieve?
Know why – understand what it really means to you
Know when you want to achieve it by?
Identify what you need to do.
Quantify what this means in activity levels – Break it down to really underdstand what that means to you on a daily, weeky, monthly basis
Be genuine to yourself, is this realistic? If not, readjust your goals.
How will you monitor your performance?
How will you stay motivated when the negative times come about?
What small rewards can you give to yourself and your team on the way to recognise achievements?
Keep the image in your mind. What will achieving your goals mean? What reminder can you give yourself to stay focused.
Hopefully this quick blog post has given you a few thoughts to reflect on. Remember, you can improve your reasonable best and achieve that gold if you really want to.
Good luck!
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