Maple is a student at UFV, she found a summer job at Roberta$$s Lawn and Garden. Roberta the

business owner founded Roberta$$s Lawn and Garden about $20$ years ago. Every summer Roberta

hires students to go door to door prospecting for lawncare customers. A student will be assigned a

neighbourhood with $200$ houses, knock on all the doors and deliver flyers. Normally at about $1$ out

of $3$ houses someone will answer the door $($depending on the time of day$).$ Students hand the flyer,

and try to schedule a first lawn mowing at the discounted initial $50\%$ off the regular price of $$150.$

Students receive $10\%$ of the sale price of the lawn for the initial sale, and on the recuring revenue

stream from future lawns mowed receive $5\%.$ In a typical summer a customer will have their lawn

mown about $30$ times.

Typically, students quit after about $5$ days of door$-$to$-$door prospecting, with only $20\%$ of hires

working the whole summer long. However, those $20\%$ of students who stay produce $80\%$ of the

revenue Roberta is looking for, these students find the work very lucrative. For her best students

$($who come back every year$)$ about $1$ out of $3$ of those who answer the door will book a lawn service.

After about $5$ days Maple is exhausted and demoralized, she has visited $1000$ houses, and sold $5$

lawn mowings at $50\%$ off. Roberta personally likes Maple and sees a lot of potential in her, so she

has been putting a lot of pressure on Maple to visit more houses during the day in order to sell as

much as the other sales reps saying, $$Honney you need to move, look how many orders Philip has,

he has been here just as long as you and just closed his $111$th lawn.$$ Yet despite Roberta$$s best

efforts to motivate Maple, Maple is planning to quit after the team meeting on Thursday.

Implementing strategies from this class and from our textbook, what do you believe Roberta can do

to keep Maple from quitting and help her feel the job is rewarding?

The first part of your answer should be a page long explaining the strategy you propose $($with

references$),$ the second page should be a script of the potential meeting where Roberta tries to

resolve the situation.