checklist
What should I check every Monday before I decide who on the team needs a call?
A weekly review that takes twenty minutes: who sold, who went silent, who sits one order from a rank, whose autoship lapsed, and whose qualification window is about to close.
Before you decide who gets a call, check seven things in this order: orders placed since last Monday, anyone with no activity in fourteen days, anyone sitting one order from the next rank, any qualification window that closes before month end, anyone inside their first thirty days, the state of the host calendar, and finally the personal circumstances you already know about. That sequence takes about twenty minutes if your data is in one place, and it produces a short list rather than a long worry.
The reason the order matters is that each layer filters the one below it. Volume tells you what happened. Silence tells you what did not. Rank proximity and closing windows tell you where a call changes an outcome this month rather than next quarter. Without that filtering you end up calling the people you like talking to, which is pleasant and does very little for the team.
Here is the review, step by step, with the judgment calls spelled out.
Orders placed since last Monday, by consultant
Start with the raw list of orders in the last seven days, grouped by consultant, with the retail value next to each name. You are not looking at a total. You are looking at a shape.
Three questions answer themselves here. Who ordered at all. Who ordered more than usual. Who placed a single small personal order that looks like a qualification top up rather than real customer demand.
That last one deserves attention. A consultant who buys forty dollars of product from herself on the twenty eighth of the month, every month, is not building a customer base. She is renting her title. That is a coaching conversation, not a congratulations, and you will only spot it if you look at order composition rather than volume.
Separate customer orders from consultant orders
Most back offices flag whether an order came from a customer account, a host order, or the consultant's own account. Split them. A week where a consultant did nine hundred dollars across eleven customer orders and a week where she did nine hundred dollars in one personal order are entirely different weeks, and they call for entirely different messages.
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Consultants with no activity in fourteen days
Fourteen days is the threshold I would use for a working team, because it survives one vacation week without triggering, and because most people who go quiet for a month have already decided something in week two.
Activity means more than orders. Count any of these as a sign of life: an order of any size, a party or event scheduled, a new customer added, a reply in the team chat, attendance on a team call. If none of those has happened in fourteen days, the consultant is drifting.
Sort the quiet list by two things: how long they were active before going quiet, and how much they were producing. A consultant who ran steadily for eight months and then stopped is a very different call from someone who never really started. The first is usually life circumstance and often recoverable with one warm, unpressured message. The second usually needs a decision, gently prompted, about whether she wants to be here at all.
Who is within one order of the next rank
This is the highest yield fifteen minutes in your week, and most leaders skip it because the arithmetic is annoying to do by hand.
Compensation plans vary, but the mechanics rhyme. Advancement usually needs some combination of personal volume, group or team volume, and a structural requirement such as a number of active legs or a minimum number of personally sponsored actives. A consultant can be at 96 percent on volume and fail on structure, and nobody notices until the month closes.
Work an example with made up but realistic numbers. Say the next title requires 500 personal volume, 2,000 group volume, and two active legs.
| Requirement | Current | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| Personal volume | 430 | 70 |
| Group volume | 1,880 | 120 |
| Active legs | 1 | 1 |
On volume she is close enough that a single customer reorder covers both gaps, because personal volume usually rolls up into group volume. The real obstacle is the second active leg. If her second downline member needs 100 personal volume to count as active, then one phone call to that one person is worth more than three calls to the consultant herself. That is the kind of inversion the numbers surface and instinct does not.
These are assumed figures for the illustration. Pull your own plan's thresholds before you use this logic, because the definition of active and the volume that counts toward a leg differ between companies.
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Qualification windows closing before month end
Windows are the deadlines that do not announce themselves. The common ones in US plans are a fast start or launch bonus period counted in days from enrollment, a maintenance requirement to hold a title already earned, and a promotion window where a new title must be repeated within a set number of months to lock.
List anyone whose window closes in the next fourteen days. Then ask one filtering question for each: is the gap closeable with the customers she already has, or would closing it require her to buy her way there?
If it is closeable, call. If it is not, still call, but change the message. Telling someone she missed a bonus after the fact damages trust far more than telling her a week out that it is probably out of reach this cycle and here is what we build toward instead. Leaders lose people by letting deadlines pass in silence.
New consultants inside their first thirty days
Everyone in her first thirty days belongs on the review every single week, without exception, regardless of what the numbers say. The first month sets the habits and the expectations, and the cost of a check in is nothing compared to the cost of a restart.
What you are looking for at each stage:
- Days one to seven: has she made a contact list, has the kit shipped, has a launch date been set. If no date is set by day seven, momentum is already leaking.
- Days eight to fourteen: has the launch happened or is it on the calendar, has she made a first sale of any size.
- Days fifteen to twenty two: has she booked anything from the launch, has she had her first decline and how did she take it.
- Days twenty three to thirty: will she hit whatever fast start tier is realistic, and what is the goal for month two.
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Hosts booked, hosts unconfirmed, hosts gone dark
The host calendar is a leading indicator, which is why it belongs after the lagging numbers and before your call list. Sort every host into three buckets.
Booked and confirmed means a date, a format, and a host who has replied within the last week. Unconfirmed means a date was discussed but nothing has been sent out, no guest list exists, no invitations have gone out. Dark means a host who agreed and has not responded in ten days or more.
Unconfirmed is where the coaching lives. A party with a date and no invitations is not a party, it is an intention, and it converts at a rate close to zero. If a consultant has four unconfirmed and one confirmed, her next two weeks will look empty no matter how busy she feels right now. Show her that gap on the calendar instead of describing it.
Turning the review into three calls and two messages
By now you have five lists. The discipline is to reduce them to five contacts, because a leader who tries to call twelve people on Monday calls four of them badly and none of them on Tuesday.
A workable rule for picking:
- Call one: the highest impact rank gap where a specific, nameable action closes it this month.
- Call two: the strongest performer who went quiet. Recovering a proven producer beats recruiting a replacement.
- Call three: the newest team member, or whoever is at the hardest point of the first thirty days.
- Message one: a short, specific note to a consultant with unconfirmed hosts, naming the host and offering to help send invitations.
- Message two: genuine recognition of a real result, sent publicly if the team chat is active. Name the number, not just the effort.
Everyone else waits until next Monday. That is not neglect. That is the only way the review stays a twenty minute habit instead of a task you avoid.
Making the review take twenty minutes instead of two hours
The checklist is not hard. Assembling the data is. Most leaders end up exporting reports, pasting into a spreadsheet, and hand calculating rank gaps, which is why the review quietly stops happening around month four.
PartyPlanRank does that assembly for you: orders by consultant since last Monday, an automatic flag on anyone who has gone quiet, rank progress showing exactly which requirement is short and by how much, and a coaching queue that turns all of it into the short list you actually work from. Open it Monday morning, work the five contacts, close it. The team gets the leader they need, and you get your Monday back.
