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Operations Training Schedule

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You've passed your Grayscale Certification! Congratulations! 

Over the next 12 weeks, to finish out your 90-day training period, you will now begin working toward internalizing your role and responsibilities, digging into our processes, learning how to master your position, and outgrow your pot! As part of your initial training, you will be meeting with different team members each week to ensure you are staying on course and in a position to be successful. 

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To kick this next phase off you will want to get a few housekeeping items taken care of. 

  • Schedule time with Tim Gray to go over the bi-weekly touchpoint meeting sheet. It is very goal focused and will take a little time to discuss. It is helpful that you have time to gain an overview of how this document is used before your first meeting with him. Make a copy of this document and save it to your personal drive HERE

  • After that, schedule your bi-weekly touchpoints with Tim Gray. Email him directly at tim@grayscalemarketing.com to coordinate. 

    • You will meet with the CEO once every two weeks. You will discuss specific skills to develop and professional goals, feedback, leadership development, and more. This is your time to connect directly with Tim.

  • Schedule your weekly meetings with your direct supervisor or department head to ensure you have time each week to work through and discuss each of the below week's training topics. 

The first 90 days of your employment are very important. Stay focused, keep learning, keep a great attitude, and understand you are new and have a lot to learn. 

Daily Checklist

You will be learning how we do things over the next 90 days and project management is a vital role on the team. To make your training as easy as possible and ensure your learning and growing we have created a simple daily checklist we want you to use over the next 3 months. 

This list is to ensure you are developing good habits while you are learning how and why we do things. You can download a digital version HERE. 

  • Begin toggl

  • Check email

  • Check Asana for what is on your plate for the day, then the week

  • Check all current workflows and clients to ensure you understand where everything is and that everything is running on track. 

Weekly Training

Week 1:

  • Weekly Agendas: What it is, How we use them, How to build them, update them, store and organize them, and how to hold the team accountable for updating on a weekly basis. 

  • Work to understand internal storage, Google Drive, internal and external documents and folders.

    • Start thinking about a structure of organization 

      • What would you change? 

      • How would you organize it 

  • Review of scope, quoting, billing estimations, pricing

  • Understanding team roles, responsibilities, job duties, and how that ties into your position. 

  • Begin Shadowing w/Adam 

    • Attend client meeting 

    • Take notes

    • Ask client questions   

    • Add to Asana 

      • Asana Edu​

      • Videos/tutorial

      • Build test project

        • Agile Project set up. 

          • Two week sprints 

          • Swimlanes  

Week 2: 

  • Workflow & Communication | (Who, What, When, Where, Why, How) Asana, Toggl, Communication, Organization

  • Coordinate and recap weekly internal team and leadership meetings to discuss present and future issues/updates/needs.

  • Work with the CEO and Vice President of Communication on all employee matters.

  • Client Goals and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), How to Set, track, manage, and report on.

  • Continue reviewing company financials, goals, tools, documents, processes, and procedures etc

  • Work closely with PMs

  • Pull time tracking reports

  • LOA

    • What happens when a LOA is signed 

    • Discovery, Proposal, LOA

      • What is a Discovery Document 

      • Proposal Review LOA

      • What do you need to do?  

  • RFAC

    • Review 

    • Who completes it? 

    • Why do you need it? 

  • War Rooms

    • What are they 

    • What are PM and operations responsibilities before they happen?

    • Who is running them 

    • What happens 

    • What are your responsibilities

Week 3: 

  • Client Goals & KPIs

    • Where are they defined 

    • Where do they live? 

    • How do we track them? 

    • When do we pull reports on them? 

    • Once reports are pulled where does the information go?

    • What should be on reports?

    • How should they be structured?

  • 90 Day Strategy 

    • What is it? 

    • Who completes it 

  • Beginning of the scope of work

  • Workflow department by department 

    • Who touches what, why, how

    • Client review process

    • How that ends up in the real world 

    • Reporting and changes based on KPIs

  • Client roll-off

    • Wrap Report 

    • What is it? 

    • How do we task it out? 

    • What is your responsibility?

  • Case Study

    • Why are they important? ​

    • Who completes them? 

    • Where do they go? 

Week 4: 

  • Determine current and future operational opportunities that can provide short- and long-term growth.

  • Establish quantitative and qualitative metrics, guidelines, and standards by which the company's efficiency and effectiveness can be evaluated; identify opportunities for improvement.

  • Review, analyze, evaluate, and contribute to business procedures.

  • Ensure that departmental decisions and project plans such as those for staffing, development, organization, material efficiency, hardware acquisitions, and facilities are in line with the organization's business plan and vision.

  • Interpret business challenges, create process mapping, analyze potential improvements, and translate these into best practices, solutions, and KPIs.

  • Assist with the development of Project Schedules, incorporating dates and times for decisions, availability of deliverables needs.

  • Oversee each department, guiding the project managers to ensure each is reaching goals set by clients, departmental and company leadership.

Week 5:

  • Implement policies and procedures alongside the Vice President of Communication that will improve day-to-day operations.

  • Ideate, communicate and explain new directives, policies, or procedures to managers; for major changes, meet with the leadership team to plan explanations to the entire staff, answer questions, and maintain morale.

  • Own and run our workflow software, processes, adhere to company organizational standards, and deliver reports on time tracking and health of clients to the company leadership team.

  • Assist with the development of Project Schedules, incorporating dates and times for decisions, availability of deliverables needs.

  • Strive to help the agency reach 75% billable.

  • Manage scope and process to ensure the team is funded

Week 6: 

  • Help onboard new team members and Clients

  • Deploy training to improve overall productivity (e.g. brief training)

  • Oversee each department, guiding the project managers to ensure each is reaching goals set by clients, departmental and company leadership.

  • Own and run our workflow software, processes, adhere to company organizational standards, and deliver reports on time tracking and health of clients to the company leadership team.

Week 7:

  • Improve customer service and satisfaction through policy and procedural changes alongside the Vice President of Communication. 

  • Help implement new roles or ways of working to meet client needs.

  • Oversee talent acquisition planning, execution, and vendors with a budget and revenue focus. 

  • Serves as coordinator of all training programs, including onboarding, positional training, and advanced training.

Week 8:

Music Industry Communication, Request, Contacts, Pollstar, Email Copy, Best Practices

Week 9:

  • Oversees facility leases, construction, renegotiations, relocations, etc. related to maintaining adequate office space required to achieve the organization’s goals.

  • Provides oversight for organizational risk management/ liability reduction via implementation and oversight of the insurance packages (liability, umbrella, etc.)

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Week 12: 

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