Food for Thought: Feeding Proposal Teams
I was in the grocery store and a business manager was ahead of me. His cart was filled with a variety of salted and sugared snack food and soda pop. I commented that it looked like he had kids coming over for a slumber party and he explained that he had a group of folks sequestered to finish an important project. These “treats” were intended to keep them working.
Poor team.
I have a rule that I’ll buy any food the proposal team wants so long as it is healthy stuff. My list of healthy includes any fresh fruits or vegetables, anything with less than 25% fat, and no high fructose corn syrup.
The last professional proposal suite I worked in had an excellent setup. Coffee and tea, of course. Plus a refrigerator stocked with juices and bottled water. The snack foods were all relatively healthy crackers and snack items. Only one sweet item included high fructose corn syrup, and the others were granola bars and cookies with honey or sugar as the sweetener. They brought in fresh fruit every other day.
No potato chips. No pop. Loved it.
This is food that keeps you going. You really can’t keep a group working our kind of hours without snacks. But you can help us remain alert if you avoid foods that put us to sleep.
One winter, we had some nasty cold/flu viruses going around. We couldn’t afford to lose anyone. I had Whole Foods make up a fabulous fruit basket which I returned to have them replenish each week. It was too beautiful to pass up without grabbing a piece of fruit. It seemed to keep us all healthy while our SMEs were sniffling and sneezing.
Pass the yogurt!
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