KrazyApGirl
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I recently signed on my 5th consultant...only 2nd local one...
I have done everything I feel I can in order to help to get her off to a terrific start...I personally have IMO the BEST cluster...so I feel like when I do offer the opportunity that they are pretty much guaranteed to be successful.
Here's what I have done for this new recruit...
I offered to take her to at least 4 training cluster meetings/KSL's, in turn she's only made one cluster meeting.
Granted she works full time and has a little one, but she had told us that her goal was to be able to replace that job with doing PC full time in order to become a SAHM.
I even went the "extra mile" and organized her SS paperwork box into a file crate including labelled hanging file folders, that neatly held all of her paperwork supplies in addition to a full stock of all the Host/Guest special flyers.. I also put together a sample host packet and a guest packet.
I added a special touch by putting her Recipe Success binder together with the catalog pages in page protectors.
So really stress to her everything she needed to do in order to do her first show...she tells me she has one this month, but never cared to tell me the date.
Anyway, I call her pretty much daily these last weeks and over the course of this get the impression that she's expecting me to go to her show with her.
I keep reassuring her she's going to do great!
Her confidence is really low..
Did I mention I even tried doing some training over the phone, but each time she had something come up..and had to either call me back or let me go...so I knew that she was just not putting in the time she needed to....
Not to mention the host coaching she should've been doing.
So come this past Wed...I think she finally realized she had no idea what she's supposed to be doing...it is also at this point where I had to point blank tell her that I can't attend her show because I already have plans.
Again, she never shared what the exact date of the show was until this week.
She seemed to go into a panic mode at this point...
So here we go...I tried to calm her down...told her that's why I have been trying to get her to go to the training meetings and the such...
Well she gets really upset, but finally starts calling me more and doing things to get ready for her show.
So when we start reviewing things I asked again (going over all the host coaching stuff with her) and find out she's done basically nothing to get this show organized...
No guest packets, very limited knowledge of the products...I could go on and on....
OBTW she wants to achieve the $1250 goal by the end of this month so that she can earn the skillet promo.
Well, so I offer to talk to her host...well we ended up doing a 3 way and her host is a dream...ends up she's Mary Kay consultant and knows the ins and outs of the hosting side...so my recruit go lucky for it being her first show and not being at all prepared.
I ended up helping my recruit by loaning her my guest folders and placed her catalogs...which by the way I made labels with her info and slapped them on before I put them in the folders for her...I even had products that I was going to let her borrow that she didn't have and that the host wanted to see.
I drove these over to her job on Sat and once again reassured her that it would be ok...
In addition to putting a script together for her to follow...I also created a nice challenge pitch to give to potential hosts to work a catalog show in 4 days to get her to the $1250 ....
Basically, I feel like I have bent over backward and then some...
So today when she finally returned my call from the message I left I asked so how did it go and this is what I get w/attitude.
"Not good...."
I ask what do you mean...not good as in how..
she says "well, I didn't know what I was doing...I thought you were going to be there and the host thought you were coming and said you should've been there for my first show."
I couldn't believe it...
I talked to the host the morning before the show, and I know for fact that she understood that I wasn't going to be there..
So what I am thinking is that my recruit bashed me because I was at fault for "abandoning" her on her first show.
Which is so not true....
My director and I have talked daily the week before...(she's been in Vienna all week...since she earned the trip) and she assurred me that I shouldn't be going to the show with her....I hadn't heard of anyone in PC going to the recruits first show....am I in the wrong here?
Part of me feels like I resisted so much because she hadn't put in any effort what so ever and maybe if she did then I would've made an effort to go...
Although, my husband was only home for a week before leaving for another two week stent and I also have an 8 1/2 and a 3 month old...
Anyway, I had to vent a little and see what you all thought...
Is there something I should've done and missed...
I just feel like I got slapped in the face for all my efforts...
Thanks for listening.
I have done everything I feel I can in order to help to get her off to a terrific start...I personally have IMO the BEST cluster...so I feel like when I do offer the opportunity that they are pretty much guaranteed to be successful.
Here's what I have done for this new recruit...
I offered to take her to at least 4 training cluster meetings/KSL's, in turn she's only made one cluster meeting.
Granted she works full time and has a little one, but she had told us that her goal was to be able to replace that job with doing PC full time in order to become a SAHM.
I even went the "extra mile" and organized her SS paperwork box into a file crate including labelled hanging file folders, that neatly held all of her paperwork supplies in addition to a full stock of all the Host/Guest special flyers.. I also put together a sample host packet and a guest packet.
I added a special touch by putting her Recipe Success binder together with the catalog pages in page protectors.
So really stress to her everything she needed to do in order to do her first show...she tells me she has one this month, but never cared to tell me the date.
Anyway, I call her pretty much daily these last weeks and over the course of this get the impression that she's expecting me to go to her show with her.
I keep reassuring her she's going to do great!
Her confidence is really low..
Did I mention I even tried doing some training over the phone, but each time she had something come up..and had to either call me back or let me go...so I knew that she was just not putting in the time she needed to....
Not to mention the host coaching she should've been doing.
So come this past Wed...I think she finally realized she had no idea what she's supposed to be doing...it is also at this point where I had to point blank tell her that I can't attend her show because I already have plans.
Again, she never shared what the exact date of the show was until this week.
She seemed to go into a panic mode at this point...
So here we go...I tried to calm her down...told her that's why I have been trying to get her to go to the training meetings and the such...
Well she gets really upset, but finally starts calling me more and doing things to get ready for her show.
So when we start reviewing things I asked again (going over all the host coaching stuff with her) and find out she's done basically nothing to get this show organized...
No guest packets, very limited knowledge of the products...I could go on and on....
OBTW she wants to achieve the $1250 goal by the end of this month so that she can earn the skillet promo.
Well, so I offer to talk to her host...well we ended up doing a 3 way and her host is a dream...ends up she's Mary Kay consultant and knows the ins and outs of the hosting side...so my recruit go lucky for it being her first show and not being at all prepared.
I ended up helping my recruit by loaning her my guest folders and placed her catalogs...which by the way I made labels with her info and slapped them on before I put them in the folders for her...I even had products that I was going to let her borrow that she didn't have and that the host wanted to see.
I drove these over to her job on Sat and once again reassured her that it would be ok...
In addition to putting a script together for her to follow...I also created a nice challenge pitch to give to potential hosts to work a catalog show in 4 days to get her to the $1250 ....
Basically, I feel like I have bent over backward and then some...
So today when she finally returned my call from the message I left I asked so how did it go and this is what I get w/attitude.
"Not good...."
I ask what do you mean...not good as in how..
she says "well, I didn't know what I was doing...I thought you were going to be there and the host thought you were coming and said you should've been there for my first show."
I couldn't believe it...
I talked to the host the morning before the show, and I know for fact that she understood that I wasn't going to be there..
So what I am thinking is that my recruit bashed me because I was at fault for "abandoning" her on her first show.
Which is so not true....
My director and I have talked daily the week before...(she's been in Vienna all week...since she earned the trip) and she assurred me that I shouldn't be going to the show with her....I hadn't heard of anyone in PC going to the recruits first show....am I in the wrong here?
Part of me feels like I resisted so much because she hadn't put in any effort what so ever and maybe if she did then I would've made an effort to go...
Although, my husband was only home for a week before leaving for another two week stent and I also have an 8 1/2 and a 3 month old...
Anyway, I had to vent a little and see what you all thought...
Is there something I should've done and missed...
I just feel like I got slapped in the face for all my efforts...
Thanks for listening.