When properly facilitated, community has the power to supercharge education programs. This match made in heaven can ultimately impact growth, customer satisfaction, and brand loyalty.
In this live event, Erin Balsa, and Shannon Howard, discussed how to utilize community to supercharge your education programs and impact growth, customer satisfaction, and brand loyalty.
Here’s what they cover:
This particular session had a few questions that we weren’t able to get to as thoroughly as we would have liked. Not to worry, we have answers!
Q: What are some best practices for measuring the impact/success of a community and learning initiative?
A: Engagement & activity are great metrics to use to measure impact. A few specific questions you could start with are:
Q: What does success look like for a community supporting customer education?
A: The ULTIMATE success metric is achievement of the business outcomes you set for your education program. Success of the community is therefore defined by how well the community assists your learners in adopting, retaining, and applying the knowledge your program delivers. A great way to evaluate this is to understand their learner experience and behaviors pre-community. Then compare to their experience and behaviors after adding a community element to their learning experience.
Q: Community and Education are clearly strong partners. Any chance you can get into specifics of how this works? What are some tips to leverage community to achieve customer education goals?
A: When using a community environment to support an education program, the ability for learners to pose questions, follow topics, and engage in a deeper way with others in a similar audience is what takes learning to the next level.
Q: Our Community is still growing, how do we get people to engage with each other rather than just us answering all questions?
A: Treat your community like a backyard cookout. The party may be hosted at your house, but your guests arent there JUST to see you and talk about how great you are!
Webinar resources:
Underscore is a series of monthly webinars that elevates the voices of Intellum’s greatest asset, our people. Each month, our experts will share knowledge and practical advice on essential customer education topics.