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Accsys, winner of the Management of People Award in the medium enterprise category <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to keep morale up in a lockdown<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s a\u00a0Covid-19\u00a0lockdown feat that\u2019s\u00a0hard to beat: 101 consecutive days of messages to staff and 175 days of LinkedIn posts.\u00a0If there was one thing Accsys staff and LinkedIn followers could count on in those most uncertain of times, it was that\u00a0each new day would bring a message from then Accsys CEO Teryl Schroenn.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don\u2019t think for a moment these messages were the product of a team of ghost writers working feverishly behind the scenes to script the daily message. On the contrary, each and every note was personally written by Teryl herself.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCommunication is a big thing for me,\u201d says Teryl, now a director at Accsys. \u201cWith all of us working from home, it was important to keep everyone connected and morale up.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes external events would offer an easy entry into the message of the day to staff, such as the President\u2019s latest speech or the first time she heard the term \u201cnew normal\u201d being used; sometimes it would be about what the different teams in Accsys were working on, or nuggets of staff news mixed with business updates; and sometimes the daily post would be inspired by something completely different, such as the fact that the Virginia opossum can produce 16 babies in only 12 days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI tried all sorts of things to keep morale going,\u201d says Teryl.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It worked, apparently.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all became dependent on that daily email from Teryl,\u201d says Leigh La\u2019Fember, PR and Marketing Manager. \u201cIt must have been really difficult to think of something new to say every day, but she did it, and we all felt connected, even though we were all over South Africa.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The virtual meetings that Teryl began hosting added to the bonding process. \u201cAt the first meeting, about 90 of us dialled in and a lot of us were teary-eyed. It was a very good feeling,\u201d says Leigh, adding that she had started viewing her colleagues, including senior management, differently during lockdown.  \u201cWe always saw Teryl as the CEO \u2013 our boss \u2013 but she became like the head of a home, keeping us together. It calmed me and made me less anxious.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Teryl stopped writing her daily staff messages at the end of July 2020 and her LinkedIn messages in September, the closeness staff felt during those early days of lockdown has not dissipated. \u201cI had a call with the sales team last night, and they say they\u2019ve never been closer,\u201d says Teryl. \u201cThat ability for everybody to talk to everybody else has been very positive.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all comes back to communication \u2013 101 staff messages and 175 LinkedIn posts, to be exact.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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