practice, practice, practice

Today the Appleton interns had a mentoring session with our College Unit Director, Matt, as we usually do on Thursday afternoons. The normal pattern of these meetings is for Matt to make sure we all understand certain products and how to run ledgers for clients. Today, however, we were practicing our “red letter language.” This is basically the language we are taught to use when speaking to clients. The method used to practice our language was the dreaded tape recorder. Matt played the client as each of us used our language in both a telephoning situation and the occurrence of an initial meeting. Let’s just say I’m going to have to put some more time into memorizing my language.

It’s been a slow week otherwise, what with the holiday and all. Hopefully next week will pick up.

(Mallory Carl, ’08 is an Economics major interning at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Appleton, WI.)

If you’re participating in a Lawrence University Internship this summer and would like to blog about your experience, submit an entry here.

Networking

It’s been a busy week in the NMFN intern world. On Tuesday we went to the Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Appleton Yacht Club to “mingle.” Essentially the purpose of this meeting was to get out there and meet people. Get our names out there and hopefully obtain a few business cards of people to call and get appointments with in the future. I got two. Mingling is not as easy as you might think!

Yesterday the interns in the Appleton office also had a phoning contest. It was basically to see who could set the most appointments in about an hour of phoning. I managed to set 12 appointments over the next few days, which was amazing. Hopefully some of them will result in cases for me.

(Mallory Carl, ’08 is an Economics major interning at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Appleton, WI.)

If you’re participating in a Lawrence University Internship this summer and would like to blog about your experience, submit an entry here.