Week 3: The One with All the Surveys

5/31/16 – 6/3/16

Another four-day week thanks to Memorial Day!

No work on Monday.

My week began on Tuesday with an official training session conducted by a Qualtrics trainer. He was able to contribute more professional insight to the program, which expanded my knowledge beyond the tutorial training I previously completed. Also, about a dozen of my colleagues are now trained, so some of the survey migrations will now be lifted off Wendy’s and my shoulders. For the rest of the day, I simply programmed surveys. I also sent out the weekly Open Tickets Report for FootPrints to the whole marketing team.

On Wednesday, I continued migrating surveys almost all day. Nothing very exciting! We did have a meeting with Greg Timpany to further the Brand Awareness project, but the overall conclusion was that the project would be postponed to focus on Qualtrics instead.

On Thursday, I yet again continued migrating surveys into Qualtrics. In addition, Wendy and I caught up with Amy Dethlefsen to discuss the Universal MTM project and catch up on its progress. The questions had been finalized and sent to Marcomm for editing. I was also briefed on TrainingIndustry.com today. TI is a website that ranks training providers according to the services they offer, and for anyone in the market for training, it is likely that they will check here first. Every year, they send out award applications for companies to fill out for their chance to make the Top 20 list. This year, my supervisor gave me the responsibility of filling out this application. It is exciting to be trusted solely with this task! It is due in a few weeks.

Finally, on Friday, I migrated more surveys. However, I also got to sit in on a meeting to discuss a new project that we will be starting that should hopefully increase transparency and efficiency within the office. The process is for Course Description Forms (CDFs). Currently, there is no tracking or formal process for developing these forms for the website. Hopefully, our team can put together a process that will become standard within the department and increase visibility and efficiency. We also had a meeting today to get updates on the current promotions that GK has and how long they will last. Wendy and I also had our one-on-one meeting with Dave, the VP of Marketing, today. We went over our current projects and progress, and he asked for an update from me specifically on what I had been working on. Lastly, I had a meeting with two girls in Product, Caitlin and Jenee, because they have a project that they would like to give me. Starting next week, I will be able to work on uploading some content to our website! They would like me to put together all 40 of the certification pages for all of the IBM training we offer. It is a large task and I am thrilled to be given this responsibility.