Hi Friends,
Last week was a really great and busy week. While I had to work extremely long hours on Thursday and Friday, it is always refreshing for my weekly schedule to be changed up a bit. On Thursday however, I did experience some extreme frustration when it took me 4 hours to get to a location that was only about a 45 minute drive… yes, I got very lost. What a day that was!
While I have included my weekly report as usual (be excited,) I also must say that this past week I really feel like I made some progress. This is the first week where I actually submitted some innovative suggestions and ideas to my District sales manager and the reps I work with. I am a firm believer that if you actively seek to complete your work, it is somewhat easy to be a “good” intern. Prior to starting the job, I told myself that I wanted to distinguish myself between a “good” intern, and a “great” intern. What does it take? Things such as last week, going above and beyond to really commit extra events and activites to make myself stick out just a little (hopefully I am accomplishing this!)
Lastly, I have really battled a war against time, and relationship development. For example, I often have customers calling me asking if I can stop by, when I there just the previous week. What I have to remind myself is that this is an awesome problem to have! Why? Because this means I am really accomplishing the relationship side of things versus only worrying about my tasks at hand. Aside from all of this, below is a weekly update.
Monday, June 27th I spent the morning making phone calls to set up my week’s appointments. Following this, I traveled to Franklin to meet Jeff Cole for a lunch meeting and to pick up First Rate sale sheets from him. Leaving there I traveled to St. Paul where I met with Manager Stu Hirt. We discussed his 3 various plots and located one of them. We were unable to travel to the others due to the amount of rain received over the weekend. I left him information sheets to be filled out and he will be contacting me to come back by to pick them up and locate the remaining two fields. I then headed to Premier Ag in Hope and met with Manager Glen Shireman. I dropped off First Rate sale sheets and he also informed me that they were unable to get a plot put out this year. I also had the opportunity to attend the Indians game later this evening with a group from Illinois.
Tuesday, June 28th I was able to get a thank you/postcard made with my picture designed and printed. I will be using these for the remainder of the summer. I also judged an event at the National Shorthorn Show for Shannon Kessler. Shannon is the Manager at CPS in Attica and is David Martin’s customer. Following the conclusion of the event, I spent the rest of the day getting caught up on entering my plot information into the excel document provided.
On Wednesday June 29th, I traveled to Co-Alliance in Rushville to gain plots and met with Manager George Miller there. I collected plot information for three of his plots. In addition, I dropped off some sale sheets, looked at his sign inventory, and discussed some First Rate product information. Following this, I traveled north to meet with grower Jeff Amos and located and discussed his plot. I also put an Instinct sign in his field. He was very complementary of the Instinct product and I plan to collect a testimonial from him at a later date. To end the day I traveled to Helena in Dillsboro and met with the Manager of this branch. I also collected his plot information. His plot is comparing 8 different products so I am looking forward to working with him on this. He informed me that his plot is near Rushville and his intern has to scout the field every two weeks, so I will be getting in contact with him so that I can join him the next time he goes.
Thursday, June 30th I went to Montgomery to meet with Brent Baker from Traylor Fertilizer. We visited the two plot locations that his grower has. I assisted him in taking tissue samples as well. This was a neat and simple experience that I had never done, and I enjoyed learning how tissue samples are collected. I then headed back to Indy to pick up the story boards for the Dow AgroSciences Show Plot as requested by Casey Onstot. I spent the rest of the day and evening working there. We put up posts, story boards, and constructed other materials to be used there.
Friday, July 1st, I arrived back at the Dow Show Plot at 6am to begin working there for the day. We put the hybrid stickers on the Mycogen field signs amongst many other things. I enjoyed working with the team at the plot for these two days.
Until next week, be blessed!
-Macy
0 comments:
Post a Comment