Product Demonstration-Personal Narrative

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As a Product Demonstration Team Lead for Crossmark, my duties included supervising 3-4 other Product Demonstrators assigned to the Walmart store located off Rt. 50 in Winchester, VA. I would coordinate with the management of this location, each day, to reach agreement on where each Demonstrator would best be placed for their different demonstrations.
It was a Saturday when I was on my way to work and received a call from my Manager at Crossmark. She stated that there was no Team Lead assigned at the new Walmart location in Stephens City, VA. She then requested I change my route to meet the management of this new location and ensure the grand opening demonstration was a success. The importance of this demonstration was expressed as greater than the one I was originally assigned, so I altered my route to head towards the Stephens City Walmart. …show more content…

50 location that day and she had not received her resources in the mail. Before work each day we would open a box, located in the back of Walmart. Inside this box, would be marketing materials, napkins, condiments and sometimes the actual product being sampled that day. These boxes were required to be used during a demonstration. As I went to speak, the phone disconnected. I wanted to verify if Victoria could do my demonstration in place of her own, as her box was unavailable and she would be out a day of work. An immediate attempt to call her back was made, with no successful response. After 5 minutes passed, I tried to call a second time, with the same result. At this point I had to make a

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