This is the 6th part of the series where each member of the Core Committee Business Development 2013 known as "The Dogfather" describes and writes about how the last 3 months have been for them as a part of this dynamic team.
This part in the series has been written by Meher Dang.
Core Committee Business Development 2013
All geared up, our next meeting was six hours long where we were properly trained as to how to deal with difficult clients, MC clients, clients with whom we messed up things in the previous years on the phone and in meeting, something apparently done for the first time. This whole concept of training us was brilliant and even though initially we might have not seen the impact of it on our work, soon enough when we were reasonably into our work facing all those high profile, reasonably busy and many a times rude people I could see how every little thing that was taught to me was being put to use! While the response overall was rarely bad as our product was undoubtedly good we were just not able to bring in tangibles. Naina was getting more restless day by day since she herself was under pressure, we worked harder understanding the need of the hour, there were positive responses and a couple of meetings fixed, loads of rejections too but we kept on working.
This part in the series has been written by Meher Dang.
Core Committee Business Development 2013
Sometime in the middle of may the first CC meeting took place. I was thoroughly excited to be a part of something that was being called the "baap" of all OCs, little did I know about the responsibilities and the importance of it until I met Naina our EBC.The strong bond between all nine of us started right then at the first meeting at Dunkin which was all about making us feel special as well as to prepare us mentally for shit loads of work that we will have to do in order to get even small number of tangibles.
All geared up, our next meeting was six hours long where we were properly trained as to how to deal with difficult clients, MC clients, clients with whom we messed up things in the previous years on the phone and in meeting, something apparently done for the first time. This whole concept of training us was brilliant and even though initially we might have not seen the impact of it on our work, soon enough when we were reasonably into our work facing all those high profile, reasonably busy and many a times rude people I could see how every little thing that was taught to me was being put to use! While the response overall was rarely bad as our product was undoubtedly good we were just not able to bring in tangibles. Naina was getting more restless day by day since she herself was under pressure, we worked harder understanding the need of the hour, there were positive responses and a couple of meetings fixed, loads of rejections too but we kept on working.
The LC had lost faith in us but the faith Naina had in us kept pushing us forward.
It clearly was a roller coaster ride, one day of depression,another of mania but we all worked as a team helping each other out, trying to cheer each other up in crisis situations (oh there were many), well, to put it simply we had each other's backs, regardless of the opinions the LC had formed about us depending only on hear-say and nothing more. The amount of learning and exposure i have got here, the brilliant people i have met and just the entire journey has been so interesting and by far one of the most amazing things that have happened to me in AIESEC.
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