Did Any of You Win the Cluster Challenge?

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Discussion Overview

The thread discusses participants' experiences with the cluster challenge, focusing on whether their clusters earned the associated reward. Many share their personal outcomes, frustrations, and hopes regarding the challenge.

Discussion Character

  • Anecdotal
  • Opinion-based
  • Exploratory

Main Points Raised

  • One participant, identifying as a consultant, mentioned that their cluster missed the challenge by 6 shows.
  • Another participant shared their experience of submitting 3 qualifying shows but feeling that the criteria were too strict.
  • Several users noted that their clusters did not earn the challenge, with some expressing disappointment about the lack of communication at the conference.
  • One participant reported that their cluster met the challenge, with 4 members qualifying and expressing excitement about receiving the reward.
  • Another participant shared that their cluster earned it by submitting 21 shows, exceeding the requirement.
  • One participant expressed frustration about the challenge, stating they worked hard but still did not qualify.
  • Some participants discussed the impact of inactive consultants on their cluster's ability to meet the challenge.
  • One participant mentioned that their director indicated very few clusters succeeded in earning the reward.
  • Another participant highlighted the role of new recruits in helping their cluster meet the challenge.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Views differ significantly, with some clusters successfully earning the challenge while many others did not. There is no clear consensus on the overall satisfaction with the challenge or the criteria set for earning it.

Contextual Notes

Participants shared personal experiences and frustrations related to the cluster challenge, reflecting varying levels of engagement and success among different clusters.

Who May Find This Useful

This discussion may be of interest to Pampered Chef consultants who are curious about the experiences of others regarding the cluster challenge and its impact on their business efforts.

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I couldn't go to Conference, but my director did. She said not one person she spoke with earned the cluster challenge. We were only seven away from earning it. I know there was some chatting on here earlier about this, but I couldn't find it. Please let me know if your cluster earned the forged knife.

Thanks,

Mary
 
We weren't even close. I wish they would change their mind and give it to those who had 2 or more qualifying shows (I had 3:)). They aren't even offering it to us at a discount right now.
 
No, we missed it by 6 shows.:( They are offering it to us starting August 1st at our personal discount.:D
 
WE made it! WE only had to have 22 shows and 4 of us met that challenge of our group. Can't wait to get the new knife!
 
We only needed 26 but we had A LOT of our consultants go inactive June 1st and HO counted May 31st. Our director resigned on June 1st as well so we really tried doing it! I turned in 11 shows but only 9 qualified so you can't say that I didn't try!;)
 
I'm still ticked about this one!We didn't make it either. I don't personally know of anyone who did. And, NOT ONE WORD was mentioned about it at conference! Guess they knew it was a touchy subject and didn't want an audience full of "BOOS"! I too was hoping that they'd go ahead and send it to those of who really tried even though the rest of our team didn't (I submitted 5 qualifying shows myself). I think by now that's just not going to happen and I'm going to have to buy this knife I so badly want!.
 
We made it, with one show to spare. Only 3 of us earned it, I submitted 10 qualified shows personally. We haven't received the knife yet, I anticipate it to come w/ the sell athon stuff. So we will see.
 
We made it and I got mine on Friday :D I submitted 10 shows and we JUST made it by one. Not sure why I got mine before you gals in the US. We NEVER get things in Canada first :confused:
 
cluster challengeMy cluster earned it. We had to submit 20 shows and we had 21. 4 of us earned it. I haven't received mine yet, but can't wait. My director said that it was discussed at conference in the directors meeting.
 
Our cluster got it. I think me, my director, and two other gals will be receiving it.
 
We did it! We needed 16 shows and I think 4 or 5 of us actually earned it. I can't wait to get it in my hot little hands! I am going to recruit like crazy with it..."If you don't sign this, I'm going to cut you!" J/K!
 
Congratulations Gals!Now are any of you guys who have responded already in the same cluster?:confused:
 
Hmmmm.....I don't know about the rest but there is definitely noone here that posted already in my cluster 'cause as I mentioned before - I'm in Canada :)
 
pamperedlinda said:
We didn't make it either. I don't personally know of anyone who did. And, NOT ONE WORD was mentioned about it at conference! Guess they knew it was a touchy subject and didn't want an audience full of "BOOS"! I too was hoping that they'd go ahead and send it to those of who really tried even though the rest of our team didn't (I submitted 5 qualifying shows myself). I think by now that's just not going to happen and I'm going to have to buy this knife I so badly want!.
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My director was at the conference - wave 1 - and she also said that NO ONE said a word about the challenge. We needed to have 30 shows, my director did 9 shows, me and another consultant did 5 shows each, 2 consultants did 2 shows each and 1 consultant did 1 show - for a total of 24 shows. My director was hoping after the conference they would have changed their minds because of the problems with it. Well I guest we will have to buy it, but for me, it isn't something that I can't afford at this time.
 
I've only talked to two people (in different clusters) who earned it. One was someone I met at conference and another is a cluster from NJ, who we have joint cluster meetings with.

Our cluster didn't make it. I think we were off by 6 or 7 shows!
 
My director said that noone in our executive's downline earned it:eek: I was really hoping for a better discount than our consultant discount to buy it; especially for those of us that DID do our part!
 
lacychef said:
My director said that noone in our executive's downline earned it:eek: I was really hoping for a better discount than our consultant discount to buy it; especially for those of us that DID do our part!
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At our cluster meeting we were told that *VERY* few clusters made it (so if you did get it, you are soooooooo lucky!). I am still very disaapointed. I had/submitted 9 cooking shows (more than twice my usual and worked much harder than I wanted to, but truthfully wanted to earn ALL the free products!). It sure didn't create warm fuzzies in our cluster. I had hoped they would have announce that they were giving the item to anyone who submitted 2... Oh well.
 
We missed it by 3 shows!!! I was only able to scrape my required 2 shows together because my June just fizzled!! But I ended up working like a crazy person to get those 2 shows to the $250 mark - it was really not pretty!! All that stress for nothing! :(
 
I am the only one from my cluster who comes on chef success. I am not suppose to be on here, but I don't listen well at all. LOL
 
Amanda - So why aren't you suppose to be on here?
 
Congratulations to those of you who made it! I have to admit I wasn't too excited about it from the start. My director got promoted on June 1st but we were still under her upline for the contest. Her upline has tons of consultants who are going inactive or do just enough to stay in the business. There are pretty much 4 of us that do all of the selling for her cluster and we would have each had to do 9 shows to make it work! My best is 6 shows to far and two of the other galls average 2-3 shows a month so that was a pretty high goal for us. I was hoping they would change their mind as well. I'm hoping to put together a catalog show the first of September and get some of these things for free. That's what I did in March and it worked out great since I could pick and chose the things I wanted rather than taking the packages. I was excited to see they put so many things out there as individual items in addition to packages this time.

I'm so impressed with those of you who managed 9-10 shows during the summer. I've really had little interest in shows the last couple of months.
 
My cluster made it because several of us recruited in May. Our Director made sure we knew that was the way we were going to earn it.

I think between all of us we added at least five new recruits in May and they are the reason we met the challenge. Out of the 40 required shows, the new recruits submitted about 14 of the shows.

I spoke with the Solution Center last night and I was told the knife shipped yesterday. I am really looking forward to receiving it and I am especially looking forward to my recruits receiving it!

Thanks!
Lisa
 
My director took a class at conference, on how to help your downline promote and they said sites like theses don't help your consultant but hold them back. People get addicted and don't make cc calls or work their biz. They get lots of great ideas, however they never implement them into their biz.So my director told me twice that she would like me to try and be off of here for a month and see how much more my biz will flourish. If I can't be off of here to record my time that I am on here, but also record the time I work the biz.Sorry about giving you the long story version!
 
??:confused:

That boggles my mind. I have found so many things that have helped me along the way on this website. Not to mention everyone here is so nice and helpful! I have to disagree with that comment. If someone told me to stay off this site, well I can't even tell you what I would tell them. THis is a family show! LOL!!!:p
 
At the Directors Dinner our Regional Sale Mgr from HO sat with us and said HO had expected 1200 clusters to meet the challenge, but only 300 actually made it. She went on to say they had had many complaints, and would not do that again, but they were however, looking for ideas on future challenges that would promote teamwork.
 
challenges that would promote teamwork.
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I guess I don't get the promoting teamwork thing. If it actually worked to motivate the inactive consultants to get with the program, I might understand. But no one from my cluster seems to feel bad that I did my share and they did not and now I don't get what I worked to earn!

I know we're in business for ourselves but not by ourselves, but I would prefer to earn on my own merits, not Suzy Consultant's!!!
 
We got it!!!
 
pamperedalf said:
People get addicted and don't make cc calls or work their biz. They get lots of great ideas, however they never implement them into their biz.
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I can totally see how this would happen! I have had to really discipline myself to not be on here for hours at a time. I have been so swamped with various things since coming back from conference, including sick kids, trips to the ER and doctor and stuff like that that I've rarely been on here. I can see how time can be "wasted" here because I've done it myself. I LOVE throwing in my two cents and I do still try to do that, but I've found that I need to be focusing on other areas of my business and the main part is those customer care calls and other contacts. I think this place is awesome to pop on and get a quick answer or utilitize the awesome flyers that you all are so incredibly willing to share. Those features and uses of this website are very worthwhile, but from experience I can see how easy it is to get sucked in and spend HOURS on here. I wouldnt discourage consultants to come on here, but I'd also recommend that they set a limit and prioritize with the other tasks that need to be accomplished not only in their businesses, but in their personal lives too. I KNOW I avoided many hours of housework, dishes and laundry because I'd much rather be on here. As a result, having to get to all of those piled-up chores then DID take away from time I could have been spending on my business.

I do LOVE this site, but I also feel to get the best of both worlds (great advice and feedback on here AND a strong and consistent business) we need to be very disciplined.:D
 
I was really shocked when she told me that, because June was an awesome month for me. I submitted 10 shows, and sold 3,945. Then at the end of June I recruitted 2, did my phone sale, and I felt that I was really working my biz. The way it came across, was that I sit on here all day and don't do anything. I totally implement a lot of things that I come across. I also like to help others any way I can, because I got so much support from you all that I want to repay you all for your generosity (SP).So thank you to everyone for all your help!:)
 
pamperedalf said:
So my director told me twice that she would like me to try and be off of here for a month and see how much more my biz will flourish. If I can't be off of here to record my time that I am on here, but also record the time I work the biz.
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The great thing about PC is that WE decide how WE spend our time. I have heard plenty of ideas from my upline director that I couldn't possibly be comefortable doing... but have gotten numerous good ideas from here that I have done!
 
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