VIP Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

this afternoon we had a meeting for over 2 hours with all department staff.
I have to be there
we have big meetings every month.
every department staff leader reports their work to our big boss.
our big boss just gives our sales department targets. every salesperson has their targets.

At every month beginning I will review the sales of last month and we can see which sales numbers from and we can get some answers or ideas on this month sales.
If we find that we have some problems to complete it we can ask our boss  to give us some events and gifts and we can take this events to go to the shop and we to meet the sales manager of the store and we talk about how can we do and reach this target.

I am the only senior sales manager.
My team has rich experience so every month they know that what they need to do .

I have high teaching skills to train good sales people.
I need 3 months to train them. but my team is the best stable team in our company.

our sales industry isn’t stable.
We found that the usually people who left had been working over 5 years or under 1 year.
people the most likely to leave are people who have been with us for more than 5 years or just over 1 year.

usually people work for 3 – 5 years in a company.
He has worked for 7 years in this company. Last job he worked over 7 year.
Sometimes I want to leave our company and I think maybe I can try something different,
I like talkshows. When I make a meeting to teach skills. half time of the meeting I teach skills and half of the time I combine with some talkshow elements. Because sales people meet different people everyday and there are a lot of special people.

Every month have a big event in the shop and at that time there are a lot of people in the store so they need to spend time to line up and pay.
There are some ladies they just buy 1 product and they told us the reason of that she come to our store to buy 1 product is we have discount. Just save a little money and they want us to give them a lot of gift.

I like to watch some TV programs like talk shows and

this afternoon we had a meeting for over 2 hours with all department staff.
I had to be there / I had to attend the meeting
we have big meetings every month. / it is a monthly meeting
every department staff leader reports their work to our big boss.
our big boss just gives our sales department targets. every salesperson has their (own) targets.

At the beginning of every month I will review the sales of last month and we can see which products did well and which products didn’t  / review the performance of each products and make a plan to increase sales.

if you want to increase the sales in a short time you can organize  an event  but if you want to maintain the sales you must improve the skills of the salesteam

we get some ideas on this month sales/ we try to predict this month sales.If we find that we have some problems to complete it we can ask our boss  to give us some events and gifts and we can take this events to go to the shop and we to meet the sales manager of the store and we talk about how can we do and reach this target.

I am the only senior sales manager.
My team has a  rich experience/ is full of experience so every month they know that what they need to do .

I have high/good teaching skills to train good sales people. / I am confident in my training skills
I need 3 months to train them. but my team is the most stable team in our company.
We have the lowest employee turnover in the company.

usually people work for 3 – 5 years in a company.
He has worked for 7 years in this company. In Last job he worked over 7 year.
Sometimes I want to leave our company and I think maybe I can try something different,
I like talkshows. When I hold a meeting to teach skills/when I hold a training session. half time of the meeting I teach skills and half of the time I combine with some talkshow elements. Because sales people meet different people everyday and there are a lot of special people / strange people.

Every month we have a big event in the shop and at that time there are a lot of people in the store so they need to spend time to line up and pay.
There are some ladies they just buy 1 product and they told us the reason they come to our store to buy 1 product is that we have a discount.  They just save a little money and they want us to give them a lot of gift. / I feel it is not worth it if you just buy one product

Vocabulary

reality TV (n) 真人秀
I watched a reality TV program teaching people how to become singers

kill time (v) : do something to let time pass
We had to wait 4 hours at the airport so we played a game to kill time

worth 值得
This diamond is worth 5,000,000
It is not worth working hard if you don’t get paid well
I took 30 minutes to explain the products to her and she didn’t buy anything, it wasn’t worth my time.
Learning English is worth it.

worth it 值得
The discount is not worth it if you don’t buy a lot

to line up / to queue (v) : 排队
10 people were lining up

generation Z (gen. z)(1995 to 2016)
people from generation Z change jobs all the time

likely 可信的
it is not likely to happen

people/staff turnover (n) 调整率 (% of people leaving)
The staff turnover is at 30% per year, we have a big problem

turnover (n) 营业额
we increased the turnover by 50% when I became the boss

predict （v） 估计
My boss asks me : can you predict the sales of this month? every Monday

prediction (n)
My prediction was correct

correct  (adj) 正确的
My prediction is always correct

to improve (v) 提高
we need to improve their skills

remote (n/adj) : far away / 遥控器
she lives in a remote village, she buy cosmetic products on the internet
I lost the remote of the TV.

remove (v) take away 拿走
we removed old products and replaced them with new products

motivate （v）  促动
I motivate the team by beating them if they don’t reach their targets

motivation (n)
He had low motivation and didn’t do well