How Flip Flops Can Help You Sell More Insurance

One of the most important messages Astonish Results communicates to its insurance agency partners is that a happy employee is a productive employee. We’ve seen clients do everything from flip-flop Fridays to Luau Wednesdays, drinks out on the town for the entire staff and even ½ days off every other week to keep workers content and producing. On our own turf, the Astonish executive team recently gave managers $150 to entertain their department any way the saw fit (future blog on this coming).

Office culture is a broad term that encompasses agency morale, accountability, employee interactions, tone of meetings and even things as benign as the décor in the office. A downbeat office culture breeds workplace dread and stifles productivity. A positive, upbeat office culture promotes productivity and employee morale. The challenge is, many agency owners struggle to come up with ways to promote a positive office culture, but that’s where Astonish Results can help.

If you are planning a morale boosting activity, it often works best to make it spur-of-the-moment. Schedule a meeting so employees know to wrap up what they are doing at a specific time, and once everyone’s gathered together, spring the good news.

If flip-flops and luaus aren’t your thing, consider these options...

- Organize a fun communications activity (board games or Wii work well)
- Engage in a creativity exercise (have a Lego Building contest, Pictionary)
- Create a company time capsule
- Hire someone to lead yoga or give massages in the office
- Organize some fun learning/training (this can be as cheap as having a member of your team share some knowledge about a personal inters or bringing in a professional to develop your group)
- Buy lunch for everyone and eat outside the office
- Do some volunteer/community work and reward them afterwards
- Handle a regular team meeting in a coffee shop, sunny venue or amusement park
- Visit a local park. Take your shoes off, play a little, and brainstorm a lot; that next big idea might occur during recess
- Bring your pets to work (for ½ day) and take pictures
- Encourage friendly office competition with prizes paid out bi-weekly
- Have a “Wheel of Fun” that employees spin to earn gift cards or other prizes

The biggest thing keeping some agencies from achieving a world-class sales and office culture is employees who feel they are just cashing checks and going through the motions. Fortunately, a little creativity combined with spontaneity can perk up even the biggest insurance agency Eeyores.

Aside from the insurance marketing and web services Astonish Results provides, our vision of office culture in agencies is one of the most important things we bring. Whether it’s coaching, consulting, CEO training, webinars or motivational videos, we provide an assortment of tools to inspire agency partners to build an office culture that promotes productivity.

If you sense your agency is ready for an office culture overhaul, Astonish Results can help. Call Astonish Results now at 1.888.899.1936 or visit our website at www.astonishresults.com and take a free 180 second tour of the greatest lead producing, modern-consumer attracting, strategy building, digital marketing system in the world!