By Cathy Wagner, Retail Maven

1.  Be sure to make everyone’s schedule clear to eliminate any confusion.  Make sure to schedule yourself on the floor.

2.  Check your packaging, and operating inventory levels now.  You don’t want to run out of bags or toilet paper!

3.  Make it fun!  Everyone is stressed.  Remind your employees that personal problems are to stay at home and while they are at work they are expected to work.  It is important to incorporate fun into work now.  Here is one thought – the first one to make a sale for the day gets a $10 bill.  The next employee that has a bigger sale gets to take the $10 – and he gets to keep it until someone makes a bigger sale….and so on until the day ends and whoever has it gets to bring it home!  Get pizza for lunch one day – make it a red and green pepper pizza.  Put some thought into coming up with 5 different ideas – ask me for help!   Remember that YOU set the tone for the day.

4.  Have the daily and monthly goal posted BIG!  And you want everyone to know what the item/class/vendor of the day is.

Be ready to coach your employees on how to achieve these goals.