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Art of Social Media Taining

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The art of Social media training

Training is often boring

Play a game, be engaging, make it relevant

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Who we scratch it for

SA Top 100, Global Fortune 500
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Dot com bomb

(Context at the beginning of the story ...2001)
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Unsophisticated start

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Early wins

(BigCo Clients, International Awards & Recognition)

Splendid time

It felt easy, we won a lot, we had flow
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Prime time

Land grab, thinking bigger, almost wreckless

Crisis Hit

2007/8

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  • Slow to figure it out
  • Slow to respond
  • Ego got in the way
  • Failure wasn't an option but we didn't know how to succeed
  • We burned and suffered .... for a long time (years)
  • We came close to the end
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Death by 1,000 lashings

Fumbled along without bold decisions
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Humble climb out of a deep hole

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Move+ to win

A plan emerged ...

Unexciting results

We were trying to do too much

Insights

We started learning and noticing more
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Everything took longer than we imagined

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Cash worries were debilitating

We needed a $$ partner
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Monday shouldn't equal Changeday

Initiative fatigure
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Repetition was very helpful

(repeat until everyone was bored ... then repeat some more)
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Key actions

The emergence of a newer plan
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Fewer initiatives

We started doing less on the business and more on the projects
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We productised & unitised our offering

Easier to propose & optimise
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Culture of recognition

Culture code / Trainiac DNA
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Sold less and solved more

 

Cost control

salary (ratios) & once off vs annual costs
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Visibility of key metrics

(and celebration every day)
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Role definition / accountabailities

(who's the who?)
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Fix bottlenecks not everything

never a shortage of things to fix

Stopped confusing care with control

letting go has been a remarkably smart move

Leadership

got uninvolved, launched self management

We are winning & loving it

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Questions

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