Learning objective:
To enable each learner to be a confident, effective and happy corporate blogger
To achieve stronger relationships with key clients through the medium of latest technology
To win a greater share of the client’s mind, time and loyalty
Learning areas:
How to write and influence with blogs
The technical skills needed to create a blog
How to write for an external audience – relaxed, confident, succinct, amusing perhaps, but most of informative, timely and valuable to them
How to write for an internal audience - interesting, attention-holding, also succinct and informative.
The optimum balance between blogging and day-job activities. This is the day job, but a new way of connecting to clients through a medium that they increasingly want their advisers to use.
How to make an impact with 140 characters - your grab has to create traction. It’s why a reader would read more.
The key performance indicators (KPIs) – readership numbers, growth of readership, media coverage, communication flows and business generated
What the payback time is - short if you get it right, eternity if you don’t
Areas to think about:
The company’s brand vs. the individual ‘star’ status as a maven
How to monitor blogs and look out for other memes and other mavens
Format:
We will develop number of training/coaching sessions, co-creating them with each client
Coaching sessions for 1 to a few people would run for 2 - 4 hours
Coaching sessions for a team or group would run for 4 - 8 hours
Accreditation and information on the provider:
GPB is accredited with The Law Society, so attendees will benefit from knowing the provider is reputable, and participants will receive CPD points.
Grant Pearson Brown is a specialist advisory and coaching firm in the fields of spoken and written communications. In particular we work key communication and presentation activities such as presentations to clients, staff. We have also developed with the academic community a scientific approach to persuasion. We are a niche business but advise some of the most senior management in large businesses throughout the UK and Europe. We have been doing all this since 1993.