Not even the full team here yet and we’ve already embarrassed ourselves. I’m ‘bout to start naming names. Some of y’all need help.
This meeting is off to an incredible start! Deaver and the leadership team have this ship headed in the right direction. We are growing on a consistent basis now. ZB Dental will be a force to be reckoned with in 2020!
That was embarrassing. How are we honoring Mr. Burnett’s legacy by giving an award to the director who was dragging bottom? Why keep embracing the suck?
Nobody at this sales meeting has done ANYTHING as heroic as Mr. Burnett. However, there are lots of great examples of ZB team members showing courage to overcome difficult challenges. Julie’s story is certainly one of them. Please accept the award for what it is. If you can’t do that keep your comments to yourself because nobody likes a whiner.
Stepping into a new role completely out of her comfort zone, inheriting a complete mess in pockets throughout the West, spending the entire year on the road away from family and friends, interviewing and signing off on 40-50 new team members - maybe those things could have been highlighted a bit better last night, but I'd say they define "Courage and Giving" - the spirit of the award! The tone deafness here is amazing. Lots of good news this week and to take the time to log onto this stupid site to tear someone down - incredible.
Julie Demro is not the problem. The problem originated by whomever wise idea to name the award after a courageous man who was on a plane that went down on 9/11. If you think that highly of Julie, then name the award after her, create a non-profit charity for research in her name, then moving forward, award the next person the next year. She's a nice person that puts in the work. However, her personal struggles has nothing to do with the balls it took to do what Bennett and the rest of that crew did. It's not to belittle her, rather, to personalize correctly what apples is to oranges. Good intention by ZBH, wrong message.
sounds like you’re saying it’s because she was female - because no one would think twice about calling that “courage and giving” if she were a dude. It’s called her job. The job that she applied for and accepted. And yeah, before you jump down my throat, I’m also a female, and I sure as shit don’t want that kind of praise. I do the job I’m paid to do and I do it well. It’s why I earn a paycheck, not a Hero Award. Not to mention, she’s weak.
This meeting was terrible. There really was no point to it, and no valuable information was shared. Then there is that BS survey after wards where no one can be honest for fear of retribution. If you want to know how people value these meetings make them optional. Allow reps to decide if they thing it is valuable or not by their attendance. Those that do show up can come attend any valuable portion of the meeting and avoid all the time wasters. You would see pretty quickly what people think of these meetings.
Agreed. Total time waster and absolutely nothing new, novel, or exciting. And what a waste of $$!! I can still hear Demro’s painfully awkward “Power Up” from the end of her speech. For some reason, I was so highly amused by that. What a total sham.
