In today’s modern workforce, providing social media training is no longer a nice-to-have — it’s a vital element of brands’ employee engagement and social media strategies.
For this presentation, Nolan Carleton, leader of AT&T’s Social Circle Employee Advocacy program, discusses how AT&T trained thousands of employee advocates to consume and share brand and relevant industry content.
You'll learn:
- The power Employee Advocacy has to engage the modern workforce
- Real training examples and results from AT&T’s Employee Advocacy program
- The steps to training your employee advocates today
- What results you can expect after the first 30, 90 and 180 days
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Train a Social Workforce: How AT&T Trained Thousands of Employee Advocates
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Train a Social Workforce:
How AT&T Trained Thousands of
Social Advocates
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Train a Social Workforce: How AT&T Trained Thousands
of Social Advocates
#EngageU
Nicole Alvino
Co-founder & Chief Strategy
Officer at SocialChorus
@Nalvino
Nolan Carleton
Lead Consultant, Programs
Execution at At&T
@ParsleyCarleton
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Poll: At your organization, what are you already doing to train
employees on social media?
- Nothing
- Distributing the social media policy
- Offering social media training webinars or workshops
- Sharing a social media video internally & with new hires
- Other: Fill in
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Organic Reach on Social Media is Diminishing
• Brands’ posts on social networks reach only 3% of fans — at best — without paid
advertising — Forrester
• 92% of consumers trust word-of-mouth-marketing over brand messaging — Nielsen
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Brand-shared content reach
Employee-shared content reach
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Employee Advocacy: Your Employees are Your Brand
Engaged employees are responsible for 80% of customer
satisfaction — David Macleod & Nita Clarke
90% of an employee’s social audience is new to the brand
— Dell Study
Employee-shared content receives 7x the engagement of
brand-shared content — Based on SocialChorus Implementations
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80%
90%
7x
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Train a Social Workforce: How AT&T Trained Thousands
of Social Advocates
#EngageU
Nicole Alvino
Co-founder & Chief Strategy
Officer at SocialChorus
@Nalvino
Nolan Carleton
Lead Consultant, Programs
Execution at At&T
@ParsleyCarleton
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Innovation: It’s Who We Are, Not Just What We Do
• We can’t lead as a brand
without employees leading
too
• Employees already help tell
our story through their own
experiences with AT&T
• Authentic stories from
employees create a better
customer experience
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Perceived Risk and Time Were Major Barriers
• Lots of sensitive brand material
• Fear from employees: “How do I speak
to the AT&T brand publicly?”
• Fear from leadership: “Is putting our
workforce on social media to talk about
us a good idea?”
• Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn was
blocked for most employees
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Life at AT&T is Evolving
AT ONSET: Top Down Messaging
• Amplify stories that were sitting on media newsroom page
• Give employees something to share that had cohesiveness
with corporate messaging
EVOLUTION: Messaging By Everyone
• Facilitate employees finding and expressing their own voice
to demonstrate what a great company AT&T is
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Start Small, Market Internally, Remember Your Users
Involvement and training:
AT ONSET: Grassroots, “lets all
jump on a call.”
EVOLUTION: Internal marketing
campaigns
NOW: Train the trainer program
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AT&T Training Video Pt. 1: Cover the Program Basics
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• What is the Social Circle?
• How does the program work?
• Introduce the opportunity to build a personal brand
• Encourage creativity and personalization
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AT&T Training Video Pt. 2: Cover the Do’s & Don’ts
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• Explain your brand’s social media guidelines &
policy
• Tips for how to handle negative responses
• Best practice: Advise employees not to engage
or respond to a negative comment
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AT&T Training Video Pt. 3: Provide Resources
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• Program overview and support resources
• Elicit pride with being part of the program
• Be encouraging and appreciative!
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Employee Advocacy Program Core Characteristics
Key Drivers
• It has to be fun
• Make it easy to implement
• Facilitate speed
• Keep it memorable
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How AT&T Defines Program Success
• Increased participation from all users: technical savvy,
casual users, and new users
• Evolution to natural daily engagement vs. one-time
corporate initiative
• Bi-weekly emails evolved to semi-weekly emails with
content driven by employees
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Employee Advocacy: Benefits Company-wide
• Social Media Marketing: Increase awareness
• Human Resources: Attract top talent
• Sales Professionals: Drive leads
• Communications: Engage employees
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We build enterprise-branded
apps suitable for every employee
Our apps empower employers to
deliver the right content and
company news to the right
employee, at the right time, in
any location
Employees love how easy it is to
be in the know
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Poll: What do you need to get your leadership onboard?
- Successful pilot to show results
- Case studies & benchmarks from similar brands/industries
- Compliance with legal, IT security & HR
- Brandable mobile app on every employee’s device
- Other: Fill in
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Have a Question?
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Train a Social Workforce: How AT&T Trained Thousands
of Social Advocates
#EngageU
Nicole Alvino
Co-founder & Chief Strategy
Officer at SocialChorus
@Nalvino
Nolan Carleton
Lead Consultant, Programs
Execution at At&T
@ParsleyCarleton
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Interested in Learning More?
Download our ebook:
How to Train Employee Advocates
http://bit.ly/trainingemployeeadvocates
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Register for our upcoming webinar:
Beyond Social Media: The Playbook for Creating
a Winning Employee Advocacy Program
http://bit.ly/WinningEmployeeAdvocacy