When I was getting my degree the writing assignments we did were viewed and critiqued by our peers. While I value their opinion as a reader they cannot teach me how to improve on my weaknesses as they were learning too. I honestly wanted my teacher's feedback as they were there to teach us. On some assignments, it was not a proper critique and was purely based on what our peers said. So I appreciate you doing this as it will help others to learn and improve at their own pace.
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Reconsider what your student consumes, what are his or hers goals and what are their motivations after all you don’t want to teach or give the secrets to narcissistic personalities or sociopaths or psychopaths.
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Story Grid
What if all course creators, universities and trainers actually held themselves responsible for their student's success?
What would this change?
This is what we decided to start doing at Story Grid last year.
Here are the insights after 10 months
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1) We cut 80%+ of our products.
All stand alone seminars, training, etc were taken off the market.
Everything now has 1-on-1 feedback.
This requires the student to actually do the training and homework and us to give them feedback so they will improve.
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2) My standard for our products 10x'd
No longer can we put something out that we think is good and if the students don't go through it our response is 🤷🏻♂️ that's on them.
We have to make our training so good that it actually causes change in the students.
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3) Our completion rate went to 94%.
Industry-wide, the numbers I've seen for completion of online courses is ~15%. Ours was in that range too.
Now we are at 94% and climbing. My goal is to be at 100% by the end of the year.
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4) We raised our prices significantly.
For us to walk week-by-week with our students through the training requires people and people are expensive. So we raised our prices to match this and our revenue is going up as more people signup to actually get the change promised.
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5) We hold our students to a high standard.
If they don't turn in their homework, we follow-up until they do. If they still don't turn in homework, we ask them to leave the program so someone that will do the homework can have their spot. We set these expectations at the start.
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6) The results are in.
We've seen huge increase in our student's writing ability. 100% of our workshop students agree they become significantly better during our program.
All those promises on the sales page that we make are actually coming true for our students.
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7) Students love it!
I've been running the Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey since we made this change last year.
A good NPS score is 30.
A really good score is 40.
We are averaging 74 (and it's going up too).
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8) It's my responsibility, not theirs.
When I made it my responsibility that our students get the results we promised, everything changed.
I no longer felt right taking people's money that weren't getting the results that we promised.
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9) What if every course creator, university, training company, etc started thinking this way?
What if they judged their success not on enrollment numbers and revenue, but on outcome of their students?
How would that change things for the better?
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