Reflections on the Outcome of Branding Yourself as a Digital Leader Training

For project B, I worked very closely with Renee Smith-Faulkner as we designed training for the district leadership team on building a digital brand. As new administrators and district leaders are hired in the district, we needed a training that we could offer them to catch them up with where our other administrators are as digital leaders. This was a very large project so it was nice to work with Renee to complete this project. 

In looking at the outcome, all participants were very positive about their experience in the trainings. There were only a couple of issues. First, in the day 2 “Why Brand” activity, using Realtime Board did not work. Even though the participants were invited to use the board, most still had issues accessing it. The instructors quickly changed the means to share the group’s findings by having them add information on a shared Google doc. Next time, I will want to create this activity in Google Slides so that each group will have a slide to share their findings. The other big issue was time. We packed these days full of activities. However, the participants requested that they have more time to fully develop the artifacts for each activity. Other than those two issues, the participants felt that the training was very beneficial and well worth their time to attend.

Peer editing was a constant throughout the design of this training module. Renee and I would look over each other’s work as each part was completed. Through this peer editing process, we were able to find small issues before we presented the design document and job aid to our clients. Also, by constantly editing each other, we were able to stay consistent in our design so that all parts worked effortlessly together. Once we felt comfortable with the design, we would then have our clients look over the design document and job aid to make sure everything needed was included. Because we had used their input to create the training, there were not any issues that had to be corrected from their review of the document other than a minor spelling or grammar change here and there. 

Once the training was over, we sat down with our clients to go over the training. They felt that the training went very well. They too felt that time was an issue so we will add more time when we provide this training if the future. They felt that the atmosphere of the training was very positive and the participants were very grateful for being asked to participate in the training. They also let us know the issues they had with Realtime Board and that they quickly resolved the issue with a shared Google doc. I felt that this training was very well organized and look forward to offering it again as new administrators begin working in our district.