The document discusses ways to keep human resources engaged during lean seasons by activating teams through various activities. It recommends having clear objectives that are customer-focused for the activities. Some simple activity ideas include training the field force on new skills and trends, organizing events common to both customers and the company, showcasing new products, and meeting with customers. Keeping teams engaged through such activities helps equip them, avoid isolation, share market information, and regain strength for future work.

1. Keeping engaged
Activating teams Live to all situations
By Mallikarjuna Rajanandan

2. Keeping engaged
During lean
seasons
Human resource has the
tendency of going into
hibernation after success or
gap or after a bad patch

3. Team activation
❖ To stay connected with
customers, keep human
resource occupied with clear
objective.

4. Team activation-objective
❖ Customer is the objective for activity
❖ Activity to equip team members
❖ Activity common to you and customer
❖ Activity to meet customer need first and then yours
❖ Activity to be owned by all
❖ Activity to be measurable

5. Team activation-Simple ideas
❖ Activity to equip team members- Train your field force with skill
sets to demonstrate
❖ Train field force on latest trends with guests from Institutes
❖ Activity common to you and customer- know the current
trending need of customer, organise activity with third party, if
needed Ex: Business meet
❖ Activity to showcase new products or if no new products, go
with new ideas
❖ Activity to meet customer at our location for brand recall

6. Team activation-benefits
❖ Training activities to to equip and build confidence to
face customer
❖ Keeps teams engaged in activities to avoid solitary
attitude of members- “Idle mind is a devil’s workshop”
❖ Information flow from market place to team
❖ Regain strength for the onslaught

7. “You either innovate to lead, or you follow the
leader. If you want to follow the leader, you should
wait for leader to innovate and get in front of you so
that you follow him. To be overcomer, you should
innovate and lead.”
Thank you