Did you know that bees dream?

Well, at AbbyShot the bees dream every day ; a bigger colony, more licensing agreements, more awesome emails from our amazing customers, heck, even trips around the world to some awesome sci-fi conventions in awesome cities!

I recall a coach recommending I should use Facebook at work for my staff to use internally. Talk about resistance from me! I could only imagine how much they might be hanging out chatting back and forth with friends.  As I let down the wall and trusted the process, I listened to the concept and the AbbyShot Dreamline was born. We set up a private group for employees only. I haven’t looked back since. That was about 6 or 7 years ago. Each week we make a new file that looks like this:

Bon’s Weekly Accomplishments

Monday

Top Three for the Day

1. Contact guy at Disn……never mind, I can’t tell the public that yet!
2. Sign contract with…no, can’t tell you that either!
3. Review our new leather…oops, almost let that one slip!

Top Ten accomplishments for the day

• a
• b
• c
• d….etc.

When we come in to work in the morning we post our top three priorities for the day and as we add value to the company throughout our day we share in our Accomplishments list. Posting top three keeps us on task, and if we don’t complete it, it gets moved to the next day. Often people will do their top three and add more to their list. Accomplishments are not suppose to be normal everyday tasks, they are things that we feel would move the company towards our goal, or vision. There is something very satisfying about checking things off a list. Honey sweet perhaps? 😉

Often we will also use our Dreamline to post some exciting news to the staff. “Guess who just contacted us about a possible licensing agreement!” …something like that. Or they will post an image of a product customers are begging us to create or a sample that just arrived from a manufacturer. Its like our own mini internal newsreel where dreams are often brought to reality.

I’ve been known to quote this one:

If you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?

We know how to make dreams come true here at the B-Hive.

Here’s to laughter!

Queen B