Pilgrims's Process

In writing about my job, I mentioned before that I lead a group of about one hundred contract workers. Well, that’s not quite true. There are about one hundred on the roster, but after holding a mandatory training I’m down to about forty.

The training went well, I believe, and one big part of it was vision casting. Now that the grand vision has been laid out, though, the work begins of getting us from point A to point B. Together.

Because of the constraints imposed by geography and time, getting forty people to the same place at the same time is nearly impossible. I held four separate training sessions this time around, so I’ve yet to see it happen. To bridge this gap, I’m trying out using Ning to get everything centralized. I refer to it as “The Network” and told my team that everything they need would be there.

To kick off using it (in addition to telling them it was mandatory requirement to be eligible to work), I scheduled a retraining for a certain curriculum and put it on The Network using Doodle (I like free stuff). In the email I sent out, it simply pointed them there. How do you get people to use technology? Show them the value by constantly driving them there.

Hopefully this serves to pull us together. Any ideas or suggestions to assist this are more than welcome.