For this month’s newsletter and blogs, our topic is keeping your company’s attention on year-end goals despite the major distractions of an emotionally charged Presidential election.
In our last article, we took up the additional measures you can take to help make sure targets and quotas are achieved leading up to the election. But once that election has occurred, you’re going to be faced with an “election hangover”—those on the losing side will be angry and upset, those on the winning side will be elated.
The Major Distraction
As previously covered, an election year can be an incredible distraction for a company. Employees, especially those from opposite parties, can get into bickering back and forth. Whereas such bickering may have been conducted with some semblance of humor in the past, this election seems fraught with earnest, angry passion.
To guide the company through this turbulent time, you must take every possible measure to keep everyone’s eye on the target and the goal and ensure that every part of the company takes part in moving the company that next step forward and that next level upward. The better you can accomplish this, the easier it will be to keep employees out of arguments (both on and offline) and concentrating on the important work at hand.
The Election Hangover
Now, what happens once the election is over?
We all know what it’s like the day after a Presidential election. The media is ablaze with predictions about the next four years, economically, socially and politically. Talk shows and pundits on both sides are chatting up either dire predictions or hearty tidings of what is to come. Even comedians are getting into the act.
The voters themselves generally fall into two groups: those who are ecstatic after having their candidate win and those who are crushed, angry, bitter and even sad that their candidate did not win. The bickering that occurred prior to the election is going to continue. Everyone is going to be running around demonstrating these emotions for at least a week, probably longer, after the election is over. You could classify these various emotional states as “the election hangover.”
As a company, you need to plan for the election hangover in much the same way you should have formulated a plan of action for production leading up to the election. The idea is to reset and refocus executives and employees on the company’s mission, goals and targets.
Once the election has occurred, you now have just under two months until the end of the year which, for most companies, means the most major target that must be met. It’s now time to reset and get the whole team refocused on the company mission, which, in most cases, isn’t political at all. Unlike the election, that company purpose is something everyone can agree upon and, most importantly, win at.
To defeat the election hangover, reset, refocus, and carry on to higher levels of company success!
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