One Step Ahead 2 – Chapter presentation – Part 1/3

 

There are two things that I love, speak and write. Translated that to my daily job, is documenting, training and coaching.

When I worked as SAP consultant, I had more opportunities to train my users, prepare documentation, present it in front of about 50 attendees, and you can not imagine how pickier, they can be with their unplanned questions.

Now as Project Manager, my training skills strength have been moved to a background, because, I use to schedule the training and verify it. But I’m not the protagonist; I’m not in front of the exigent audience trying to engage them to the amazing SAP world.

Moving to the USA, and after to a new state, was a challenge. During the last years I tried to contact my new chapter, finally, the opportunity arrived.

I realized that my new chapter members aren’t very actives in Social Media, neither the chapter. Then I proposed to talk about Using Social Media as Project Managers.

I had less than 3 weeks to prepare the presentation, that was very challenging because was my first educational/presentation in English (It’s not the same that led a SteerCo meeting, lol) and I didn’t know the attendees.

• Number of attendees
• Social Media skills
• Industry Sector

Nothing!

Hence, I decided to prepare a basic presentation with the following content.

• Introduction: Social Media – Definition, Usage data, Myths
• Social Media –In our projects/organizations
• Social Media – Platforms and usages
  • ProjectManagement.com. There are about 600 members of my chapter on this site, less than 5% have an updated profile. Then I explained the benefits to update and participate in this site.
  • LinkedIn. Account creation and tips
  • Facebook. Page creation, group creations. Benefits that I get using social media to know the team.
  • Twitter. Account creation, using # 
  • WhatsApp. What is it, how it works and how it helped me to reduce my project costs.
• Planning for Social Media. Review few key questions
• Conclusions

Lessons Learned 1 - Usually people at chapter are very busy, and take a lot of time and emails to got an answer. Be patient, but don't stop trying. 

Lessons Learned 2 - Try to understand know your audience in order to prepare properly the material.