Thirty-eighth week! (21/9/20 - 25/9/20)

Our newsletters for this month are nearly ready! We have Zaheer's e-Rostering piece for both of them so the Equiniti newsletter is complete. We just need Simon to write an intro for the Premier IT one as well as Rob's Remote consultations piece.

Friday meetup points - conversing with neil, joshua package, creating agenda

Our G-Cloud 12 application has been countersigned and will go live for selling on Monday! Whether we will get any sales however is questionable...

Everyone loves the comic book style content me and Aaron have been creating for announcements and new wins. For the next round of newsletters, we've been thinking of doing them in a similar style to make them more engaging.

I had to fill out a questionnaire about working from home for John as part of ISO 27001 to prove that I'm working remotely in a safe environment on a suitable device.

The e-Learning team have added me into a Teams group chat with them so I can message them for help whenever I need to which is nice.

My idea to use a Trello board to keep track of everyone's tasks has proven success! Every Friday we go through everyone's lists to see what we're working on. It's really useful because you can set due dates, at checklists and more.

I approached Simon hoping to convince him to let us subscribe to Canva Pro for marketing content and collateral creation. It's only 10.99 a month, and he agreed! whoopee!

I'm still working on the e-Learning brochure and infographic, they'll be done very soon.

I have also been asked to research Portals and make sure we're on all the right appropriate frameworks. 

I'm still working on the e-Rostering collateral with Zaheer and the PReP benefits email with Simon, we'll be creating a press release style email to go to all designated bodies. We're going to develop bespoke versions for different target trusts.

Thirty-seventh week! (14/9/20 - 18/9/20)

This week Simon has asked me and Aaron to come up with a fun and competitive way to announce news wins. We're using a comic book style 'Simon vs. Ian' theme which works very well.

The Equiniti Newsletter for this month is nearly done, we're just waiting on a Migration Update piece from Tim and a piece on e-Rostering from Zaheer. We have received LevelUp Networks' piece and it's now in the newsletter.

Simon has completed with exam witness testimonies for coding and online/offline marketing and I've made sure all my mock exams for these have been submitted to Emma.

I've had multiple meetings this week with Aaron this week to discuss the e-learning infographic and brochure. He and Michelle are giving me lots of design ideas which is nice of them. I've started the first 7 pages of the e-Learning brochure.

We've officially arranged our meetup for Friday the 25th at the office. Looking forward to seeing all 7 of us that are going! I spoke with Neil to make sure we would have access.

For some reason, we were asked to sign off our G-Cloud application again for it to be countersigned. Not sure why, but we did and now we just need it to be countersigned before we can start selling.

We have decided not to go forward with applications for RM6221. It was such a big application process and we weren't even guaranteed to get it in the end. Only 12 of the most prestige businesses! And we had to bid, as in pay money, to get access. No way!

I'm still working on the recurring service revenue poster to be sent out to clients.

I'm starting work on new e-Rostering collateral. I have the layout and logo but just need the text from Zaheer.

Thirty-sixth week! (7/9/20 - 11/9/20)

This week I have helped to rebrand some collateral from MSF to Premier IT, this was easy to do since I now have access to Adobe Acrobat.

I had a meeting with Nikki to discuss the brochure for e-Learning I will be creating and I'm making a start pretty soon.

I'm applying to the RM6221 framework with Simon and it's a lot more complicated than we thought - it's nothing like G-Cloud...this is a big priority at the moment

At the first of our new weekly catchup meetings on Friday we came up with the following actions points:

• Trello – MC to create a shared board for everyone to use which should be up and running by the 1^st of October
• Email to Premier IT clients about EQ MSF – TD to send over spreadsheets with names
• PReP benefits email – MC/SM to alias? SM to incorporate into his “catch all campaign” NOTE; HOW BEST DO WE PULL ALL THE ADDRESSES TOGETHER FOR THIS (DB’s?)
• CEA and Pay Progression modules – how will we market these items
• MC to arrange London meeting within 2 weeks
• Collateral – all in one place (https://premieritpartnership-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/mclark_premierit_com/Evg8JOZXwF5Ioa2zOPiX7wEB2HL-J7SkfA_UoexKOe5Qng?e=2Qwo7E)
• SM working on the Recurring Service Revenues piece

Ian has asked that I recreate the e-Learning infographic I made for Nikki into a brochure...so I have a meeting with Aaron soon to discuss this.

It's been announced that I will be allowed predicted grades for the 2 exams I have left...yay! All I need is some passed mock exams, some evidence and a few more bits and it's settled.

I'm in the process of designing a poster for Simon about 'recurring service revenue.'

The Equiniti Newsletter is nearly ready, we just need Tim to write a Migration update, Zaheer's e-Rostering piece and LevelUP Networks' piece, then I can start working on the Premier IT one.

This week we got an email saying our G-Cloud 12 application was successful. We had to sign it off one final time and we are now waiting for the CSS to countersign it so we can start selling.

I created a piece of FAQ collateral to be sent to the new MSF clients.

I made a piece of collateral based on 'The Benefits of Client Feedback" based on a PowerPoint slide Simon created for a meeting.

I also created a poster on the Benefits of PReP to be sent out.

Finally, I designed letter to be sent to MSF clients. Lots of content creation this week!

Thirty-fifth week! (1/9/20 - 4/9/20)

This Monday was a bank holiday.

On Tuesday I had a pre-dream team meeting with Tim and Rob to catch up on what we'd done before Simon came back from annual leave and questioned us. We have the following updated action list:

• Rob/Tim MSF collateral – think about right target market
• Produce MSF testimonials – Tim
• All client email about MSF – Tim/Rob
• PREP benefits letter to ROs/EQ client update

• Showreel – Include e-Rostering
• 2^nd newsletter for just Premier IT
• Golden service - charging clients for an enhanced service of running reports, adding users etc. Position to clients: ‘e.g… getting overwhelmed with calls from people who are working on the COVID line’
• Something I’ll be working on with Rob/Tim…meeting to be scheduled, also unsure
• 60 second update – weekly
• CFEP collateral

Me and Simon have arranged to meet up in London on the 15th of September for a catch-up in person. It will be good to see him after so long.

We sent out our 3rd Equiniti Newsletter with a special 3rd page for John's amazing article. Regarding newsletters in October we are planning to send out a Premier IT Newsletter as well as our Equiniti one, which means double the work for me! I am currently creating a new template.

On Friday I had a meeting with Matias and John from LevelUp Networks to discuss a section they want to include in it. Nikki has also said she is happy to help with proofreading the newsletter and wants to be involved so she can e-Learning pieces.

I have tried to contact the Crown Commerical Service about the contact details update and Customer ID number, but any emails I send aren't going through. We haven't sold anything on the digital marketplace and have no record of a customer ID number, so I'm confused.

We are definitely going ahead with the RM6221 Digital Capability for Health framework and I'm setting us up an account to apply. We have also found someone who is willing to help us from outside the organisation.

We're also working on sending out an email about PReP to clients to force feed them the benefits, we were inspired by something Node4 sent out. 

As well as this I helped design a PReP benefits letter for end users.

I have a meeting with Nikki next Tuesday to carry on working on our e-Learning marketing campaign.

I made a new win document for Roche, who have joined us and are using PReP and MSF.

On Thursday I had a review with Emma and Simon, we discussed my progress and new reports and targets.

I also sent Simon my monthly report for August and the August social media/website metrics.

Thirty-fourth week! (24/8/20 - 28/8/20)

 On Monday I had another Zoom call with people from CFEP in Australia with Simon and Rob to discuss progress. I'll be honest I still don't 100% understand what I am doing, all I know is that I'm going to be working with their marketing team to create some collaborative collateral, but I haven't been given any information on what will actually be in it. On the 9th of September, we have another meeting so hopefully we'll get started then,

We were supposed to have our Masterplan update meeting on Tuesday the 25th but since Simon was on annual leave it was cancelled. I imagine this will be rescheduled when he is back.

We didn't have our weekly dream team meeting either again because of his absence, but our weekly team meeting still happened.

I had a brief call with Zaheer this week because he needed help carrying out a mail merge. I have never done one myself either so he asked me to research it and learn how to so he can send out an email next week. I had a quick scroll through a tutorial and it seems pretty simple, you can use Word.

I finally finished off our Newsletter, this months edition has an extra 3rd page because John our Chief Technology Officer wrote an amazing article about 'Ever-Changing Environments'.

The Commercial Director at LevelUP Networks contacted me and asked to arrange a call next week to discuss collateral in our next newsletter. I have arranged a Teams meeting with him.

Before Simon went on leave he asked me to send an update of our details to the Crown Commercial Service. They wanted an email address, our office address and our Customer ID number. I had no idea what our customer ID number was so I contacted Andy who works in the finance department, and he told me not to worry about it because they are a supplier not a customer and we're not a customer to them so we don't have a number. I'm going to tell Simon when he is back. 

I also scheduled a meeting for when Simon is back to discuss our RM6221 Digital Capability for Health framework.

I sent out a letter on Mailchimp to our PReP clients talking about the reintroduction of appraisals.