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You are here: Home / Featured Home / Party’s over! Get your team’s momentum back, post-holidays

Party’s over! Get your team’s momentum back, post-holidays

July 8, 2019 By Jennifer Azara

Odds are, a good portion of your team was out of the office this past week. Some may be returning to their desks for the first time in quite some time.

Which is a good thing — a little time away can keep burnout at bay.

But no one can afford a long, slow ramp-up to get productivity levels high again. That’s why now’s the perfect time to focus on momentum and how to keep it going.

Not the time to lose steam

To get – and maintain – momentum, remind your entire team of these three things:

  • Keep a rigorous routine. While momentum sounds like something that just keeps going on its own, it really requires a lot of self-discipline. Note: It doesn’t necessarily matter what each staffer’s routine is – it’s that it’s followed consistently to reinforce that discipline.
  • Understand you have to keep at it. There may not be immediate results for some of your goals,whether their individual or team ones. That’s when it’s your job as leader to remind team members to keep working. The payoff will come.
  • Acknowledge it will be tough at first.Most of the actions needed to reach a goal are difficult at first but will get easier over time. Reinforcing that with the people on your team will help them keep at it until they start to see it for themselves.

 

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Jennifer Azara

About Jennifer Azara

“I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.” -- Amy Poehler, Actress
 
I’m thrilled to have recently joined Progressive Women’s Leadership in the role of Managing Editor. I’ve worked as a writer and editor for more than 18 years, covering a variety of “beats” from CFOs to warehouse workers. But this is the one I’m most excited about. The key to editorial success is to be in constant contact with your audience – find out what info they need, what keeps them up at night. Then work tirelessly to give them that with every story. I want our site to be the first resource you go to when you have a challenge at work. This bossy woman is ready to get down to business!

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