My nightmare for collecting money from colleagues and really having to chase payments for some previous draws!!!

This can be awkward sometimes, especially when you are trying to catch your boss who owes money to the Lottery Syndicate but is in meetings all day. So how do you get the money out of such a person without any issues?

Well, you could go with the bullish approach and tell him directly that he owes the Syndicate money and needs to pay up if he expects to continue. Which is fair enough, then again you don’t want to piss him off too much and not the best way to build a good relationship with him. Start off by asking him for some advice on work related stuff and then let him know about his outstanding with the syndicate. That should work with all the people you need to get money out off, but it can still be a little annoying, as you would think it would be easy and people should pay you what they owe. Though my belief is if you want people to do what you want, give them something that is important to them. Talk to them about whats important to them. I think its fact of the effort required for payment collection that gets under my skin, but you do have to patient with them or you end up loosing syndicate members all together.

This exercise of collecting money from members has a positive. As a syndicate manager chasing and talking to members you get to know other people in the office, especially higher up the food chain. Helping in company promotions. In fact the way you run your syndicate will reflect senior management recognizing your work and perhaps help in appraisals.