Unlike some other participants, I came into the program with a contract to deliver a live leadership program to 50 women over ten sessions through a "university-to-business" offering. I have already done this program 5 times since 2015 in person and 2021 is to be the first time it will be virtual. I signed up for the course to learn how to make the virtual format and experience amazing for this contract. I followed the EPM prompts to identify a new online course so that I could experience and practice all the components of success that EPM teaches. At the same time, we were challenged to fill registration for the university course, so I used some of the EPM recruitment principles to fill the roster. I also adapted the curriculum to include all of the elements of Experience Escalation, including Mission, Future Self, Bird's Eye View, Constant Wins, Normalizing Challenges, Peak Emotional Experience, Feedback Loops, Community, Unstoppable Momentum, and Mission Accomplished. Prior years of the program had some degree of some of these so I already knew intuitively that they were important. My great success is gaining clarity on how important AND how to engineer the elements into the curriculum and the delivery. Since I work through the university's network and systems, I am making my experience tracking manual in 2021 and it will be the first time that activities within the program have completion points and add up to a celebration of course completion at the end. My participants will miss the Ka-Ching sound effects, which I hope to replicate with recognition and celebration along the way during the live Zoom meetings. For the first time, this year, I am doing a Flipped Classroom, so I am pre-recording content for viewing between live Zoom meetings and using the Zoom meetings for group coaching each week. I am SO appreciative of Marissa's excellent example of pre-recorded content. After delivering it for five years and adapting along the way, I know where to drop in the experience escalation. In addition, each participant also gets two 1:1 coaching sessions with me that begin mid-program. I have extended my license for Experiencify and I am determined to get my "Speak for Impact" course uploaded and run that program as a follow-up to my university-based leadership program. The live program will begin on February 9 and run through April 28. I am confident, energized, and have a whole new toolbox of skills and resources to bring to the table to WOW! everyone, including a first-over orientation session and constant communication between weekly Zoom's. My mission for the program, which I am embracing, is to deliver a focused, energized experience that supports a wave of forward motion so each woman moves from her individually-defined mission to her Mission Accomplished in ten sessions. Reflecting back through the course, I think I would have been smarter to just set the university course transformation as my EPM mission instead of running a parallel effort with the assignments to create my own separate program. Good news, I now have two great outcomes - an amazing university program and a brand-new independent program that is ALMOST ready to launch. I do have some participant interest through my survey, chatter boxing, and survey results sharing and I'm expecting to sell seats later this Spring.
What is your biggest takeaway from EPM?
Keep moving, trust the process, do the work. Iterate your way to Awesome - my new mantra!
How did EPM help you become successful?
EPM provided the pathway to transition my thinking about the potential in online programs, paved the way technically with Experiencify and all the accompanying integration of services, and served up a step-by-step guide so that I may avoid the ditches and power along the roadway of proven success.
How has EPM and your success impacted your life?
EPM has opened my eyes and taught me exactly what I need to know to evolve my business and my career for the next chapter of my life
What has been the biggest change in your business?
Two things. 1. Realizing that my calling is to honor the mission that each woman sets for herself and provide the experience escalation that guides her to her own mission accomplished. Previously, I had been making room for women to get a range of different value from the program, but I didn't partner with them to assure it. 2. Also, I now have a pathway to wind down my career by moving from large-scale programs and client-directed consulting to marketing the very specific service that I truly love the most using the online environment. I will be stripping away all the other aspects that I have been doing and distill to the sweetest ingredient. I see that as an amazing Final Act in my career.
What is now possible for you because of your Experience Product?
I will ease into retirement by down-scoping my practice from large programs to coach women (1:1 or 1:few) in building their capacity and impact to achieve their career goals - what I do best!