Training
You’d be amazed how many organizations think that by organizing training, they’ve ticked the box. Getting the real results from marketing and business development (and certainly social media) relies on your being able to actually do it yourself! It’s no good our coming in and leaving you with a nice glossy plan and then running away. For it to work you need to be confident that you’ve got the skills to go it alone.
When you deliver as much training as our associates do, whatever the topic, the success lies in nailing those business needs first. What’s important is that your training actually makes you money, not just costs it. We’ve all experienced trainers that cost a fortune, get you all fired up and then leave you wondering how to actually get started. Like all things at Elephant Creative Solutions, our first priority is plain English and our second is common sense. Whether you’re a director needing a bit of one-to-one coaching, or whether we’re looking at a whole team… the fact is it has to be relevant. How frustrating would it be to feel that you were just getting generic, off-the-shelf training?
So, what’s the best way to do it? For training to be really effective it has to come hand in hand with an action plan and some ‘at the end of the phone’ type support. It’s all too easy to just throw the facts at you… we want to make it really stick! But don’t just take our word for it… feel free to ask us to provide some examples and references…
May 15 '12
In just over a month Elephant Creative will be making its way to Venturefest 2012. Venturefest, in Oxford Said Business School, is ‘the’ business creation networking event of the year and we’re delighted to be involved. This year Venturefest is focusing on and engaging with the challenges facing the local and national economies. The event [...]
Apr 20 '12
As a virtual agency Elephant Creative sends a lot of emails and makes a lot of phone calls, so an opportunity to meet inspiring, new people face-to-face is one we can never refuse. This year we are really pleased to be involved in ‘the’ business creation networking event of the year – Venturefest 2012. Venturefest [...]
Aug 16 '11
My regular newsletter pulls together some of my favourite tweets over a few weeks. If you want to learn about ways that you can use social media for professional services, these articles might inspire you! They’re aren’t just nice glossy ideas of what other firms are doing… these are practical resources that should give you [...]
May 6 '11
I have to be honest about this book. I had to read chunks of it several times… and even then, quite a lot fired straight over my head. I have absolutely no doubt that this book will be important in academic circles. Similarly, that it will be ploughed through by the marketers of the future [...]
Dec 10 '10
How should you get started? The most important thing is that you don’t read all of this series, agree and then decide to think some more about it. Strike now and get going!
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