Do You Feel Sporty At Work?

At my work every year we have a week that we like to call "Customer Service Week". It is a week where we dedicate some fun activities and recognition to our team of customer service professionals that come into work every day and put it all on the line for our customers. We show our appreciation for these fine individuals that help service our customers every day.

Today was the start of the week, and what better way to kick it off than Sports Day?

That's right. Everyone dressed up in their favorite sports attire. Of course there were some restrictions. I mean this IS a professional environment after all. We did have to restrict SOME athletic attire. For example, the Michael Phelps look- aka swimming, platform diving, water polo, synchronized swimming and pretty much ANY outfit that would not provide the professional coverage necessary for a corporate environment was banned. That's right blogger fans. That also means we had to wave a hardy goodbye to wrestling and UFC attire...of course you COULD dress like a UFC fighter PRE-fight...we aren't THAT strict.

Here are a few pictures of day 1 of Customer Service Week. Notice how Michael Chapman is missing from this picture. That's right folks...since Michael came to work without a sense of team spirit, he was forced to take the group pictures (of course I had to edit a bit as he got loads of ceiling and not so many people) :P

Notice how the first team shot was nice and friendly? Our rowdy sides were showing a bit here.

And of course we have our RUNNERS!
Michael and Shanel are ready to attack any customer problem.
Shanel modeling her running outfit

Our Basketball Players
Our B- Ball players Neel, Anthony and Peter are always ready to use their skills to rebound and save our customers

And Hockey Players...

Josh and Shannon are able to quickly change from defensive position to offensive

Josh and Shannon MAY look tough, but notice the smiling faces. They know that kindness, patience and understanding goes a long way with our customers.

The Football Players

Of course it never hurts to flex those customer service muscles - no matter how small they may be...practice makes perfect after all.
And of course, Esther, Giovanni and myself know when to huddle down and develop a game plan that will most certainly score us a touchdown!

And last but most certainly not least, Michael Shiakallis puts it all together to show us how it's REALLY done. He shows us how being prepared, taking the necessary precautions, being high energy and positive will help differentiate us from our competitors. :)