Norwex Chief Marketing Officer Amy Cadora and Director of Online Marketing Teresa Kulupka share the secrets of creating an effective game plan as they bring you the exciting updates on our Norwex Community Project.
You’re Practically There!
Well done, Norwex Movement members! You’re well into planning your very own community outreach/awareness project! And we couldn’t be more proud of you!
You’re making a difference already, just by thinking about how you can reach out to others! You’re passionate about something, and you want to let others know. You’ve got some people who are willing to help, and you know what their talents and strengths are. You know what you hope to accomplish, and whom you want to reach.
Now, let’s keep this wonderful momentum going by creating a game plan that can help serve as your roadmap to success. Remember to stay flexible and accept any little “happy accidents” that come up along the way. As Amy shared in the video, they could mean even greater success for you in the long run!
Step 1: Create Your Timeline
Starting with a timeline helps you stay accountable and on schedule. It makes sense, and it’s not hard to do at all—it’s basically just a matter of listing all your project’s touchpoints and milestones from start to finish on either a piece of paper or a calendar.
We know it can sometimes be a little tricky to know exactly where to start. So we have a suggestion: Start at the end.
Start by writing down your project’s culminating event—the “thing you will accomplish”—alongside the date you want to accomplish it by.
Norwex Movement Game Plan
For our corporate event, it started out looking like this:
By listing our goal statement, target audience, and target date, we had all we need to get started thinking about how to make it happen—in other words, our game plan.
Next Steps
Back up from your target date to fill in your calendar with all the steps necessary to make your goal achievable:
See how starting with the end goal helps you work backward in order to know how and where to begin?
Getting Started
Once all your deliverables are listed, you can then begin to assign tasks to various members of your team, based on their strengths. Be available to answer any questions, and don’t forget to follow up with your team members regularly to check progress.
Our Norwex Movement timeline would eventually include plans for subsequent outreach steps after our initial meeting with local business leaders. At that point, we hope to actually bring these leaders onto our team and work with them to spread awareness within and beyond their own businesses.
Stay Flexible
As Amy stated and like most everything else having to do with your outreach project, you’ll want to stay flexible when it comes to your game plan, too. Give yourself plenty of time, and build a cushion in case something changes direction or maybe doesn’t happen exactly according to plan.
Don’t forget to communicate any schedule changes to your teammates. Keeping everyone on the same page helps them feel valued and connected.
Most of all, have fun and be proud of the fact that you and your team are truly making a difference!
Resources:
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Love including the next generation in all the outreach!
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This is a great article and video to help with getting an outreach project going!
OMG, this is great! I want to get involved!!!!!!!!