It will be of primary importance to acknowledge how the affiliate feels and have he or she identify what happened exactly to feel the "demoted feeling".
Once this has been idenfieifed, then it is now up to the team - you and the affiliate to learn from that experience and identify it as knowing "what not to do" and learn from it so that the same events do not happen again thus the affiliate will experience success and not feel failure again.
Negative feelings will leave affiliates feeling vulnerable and uncomfortable so it is not our place to minimize their feelings nor attempt to ignore the experience and carry on. The affiliate will need to be heard and if this is a weak skill set area for you then delegate to another team leader in your down line who can reach out to help the affiliate during this time of feeling demoted.
A plan is a way for the affiliate to prepare and anticipate what is going to happen next and not wish for nor hope for it to happen but "do" make it happen.
Activity means there is a plan or map to follow and at times we all make a wrong turn and find it leads to a dead end. This can be rectified as the events that lead up to the feeling of being demoted as all it requires is a little forward thinking and some sweat equity work.
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It will be of primary importance to acknowledge how the affiliate feels and have he or she identify what happened exactly to feel the "demoted feeling".
Once this has been idenfieifed, then it is now up to the team - you and the affiliate to learn from that experience and identify it as knowing "what not to do" and learn from it so that the same events do not happen again thus the affiliate will experience success and not feel failure again.