It has been 6 months since I stepped into this new role, and I had learnt lots along the way.
Moving from a role that manages channel partners directly, into a more withdrawn but strategic role, yet having to exert more influence on a greater number of partners across a much bigger region, through other people that you have no direct control over yet being responsible for the outcome.
Yes it sounds complex, and it indeed is not simple.
A concept that is not easily understood.
A higher value add that isn't common across the market yet.
6 months on, and I'm having fun in this role.
Just concluded our Annual partner conference training this week.
Months of preparation work has gone into this, and with even more time and effort invested into this in the last 2 weeks.
With a key objective of transforming a traditionally dull and business-centric annual partner conference that people do not really look forward to, into a high-energy, engaging and fun event that still achieves business goals, an event that people will be anticipating in the future.
It felt great to receive plenty of appreciative compliments at the end of the day.
Especially those coming from the big bosses.
I had showed everyone how business goals can be achieved while having fun doing it.
A bigger stage to showcase my skills and creativity to create fun, energy and achieve business needs at the same time.
Apart from this, last Sunday's swim introductory class went exceptionally smooth as well.
Coach was fretting over the low sign up rates from the last few sessions of introductory classes, and had approached me for advice on how to turn things around.
After breaking down the steps and identifying the issue that we had banked the entire intro class into 1 single make-or-break swim drill was crucial. Turning this around by improvising the swim drill on the go, we literally performed magic and touched gold.
Even though that was my 7th intro swim class that I had conducted so far, neither me nor my fellow coaches had ever seen swim students breaking into rapturous applause after successfully doing a swim drill with them. None of my fellow coaches had seen the same response too.
The sign up rate jumped to 71% from the low 0% to 20% in classes conducted by others.
This is a good week, and the best thing is that I'm really having fun doing my work now.
Much happier than before!
Moving from a role that manages channel partners directly, into a more withdrawn but strategic role, yet having to exert more influence on a greater number of partners across a much bigger region, through other people that you have no direct control over yet being responsible for the outcome.
Yes it sounds complex, and it indeed is not simple.
A concept that is not easily understood.
A higher value add that isn't common across the market yet.
6 months on, and I'm having fun in this role.
Just concluded our Annual partner conference training this week.
Months of preparation work has gone into this, and with even more time and effort invested into this in the last 2 weeks.
With a key objective of transforming a traditionally dull and business-centric annual partner conference that people do not really look forward to, into a high-energy, engaging and fun event that still achieves business goals, an event that people will be anticipating in the future.
It felt great to receive plenty of appreciative compliments at the end of the day.
Especially those coming from the big bosses.
I had showed everyone how business goals can be achieved while having fun doing it.
A bigger stage to showcase my skills and creativity to create fun, energy and achieve business needs at the same time.
Apart from this, last Sunday's swim introductory class went exceptionally smooth as well.
Coach was fretting over the low sign up rates from the last few sessions of introductory classes, and had approached me for advice on how to turn things around.
After breaking down the steps and identifying the issue that we had banked the entire intro class into 1 single make-or-break swim drill was crucial. Turning this around by improvising the swim drill on the go, we literally performed magic and touched gold.
Even though that was my 7th intro swim class that I had conducted so far, neither me nor my fellow coaches had ever seen swim students breaking into rapturous applause after successfully doing a swim drill with them. None of my fellow coaches had seen the same response too.
The sign up rate jumped to 71% from the low 0% to 20% in classes conducted by others.
This is a good week, and the best thing is that I'm really having fun doing my work now.
Much happier than before!
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