Another @sarahlethbridge direct tweet. Another vote secured. I went to bed and saw lots of other people that I followed on twitter, taken up with the \u201cYsgol y Ffin\u201d campaign. \u00a0They were slightly ahead. As I settled down to go asleep an \u201cI wonder if they\u2019ll win\u201d crossed my mind.\u00a0 I woke up in the morning, stretched across to reach for my phone to commence scrolling. I clicked on the Twitter poll. 50% each! Neck and neck.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u201cI can\u2019t have this!” I thought, so I set about composing my own tweet to appeal to people I knew to get involved.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
I wonder how many people acted in exactly the same way as I had done? Quite a few obviously because they ended up winning with 59.6%<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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As a passionate believer in the importance of sharing innovations and best practice, I set about telling my colleagues at Cardiff University.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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So I posted a reply … to myself …<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Tumbleweed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u201cFor the Love of God\u2026 answer me someone!\u201d Two answers were before me… EITHER everyone had been using it for years and I was oblivious OR nobody knew about this amazing thing and it was my mission, and mine alone, to let everyone know about it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Last attempt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Laughing face emoji to lighten the mood and lessen my obvious desperation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Only THEN, did I get some engagement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u201cHave you seen this?\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u201cDoes Cardiff University have a license\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n I\u2019d hardly say that I attracted a stampede of comments, but it was really interesting how it took three posts to actually, in whatever capacity, \u201cbreakthrough\u201d. (There is a chance that people took pity on the strange woman who bleats on about lean all the time but I’m overlooking that possibility for the purposes of this blog).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n These tiny experiences have reminded me how important regular communication is – how powerfully persuasive it is.\u00a0 It also reminded me of this Ted Talk, which I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve all seen, which beautifully demonstrates how important followership<\/a> is to achieving success.\u00a0 Only when people engaged with the messages did they become meaningful. To everyone else, and to me. What’s also important is someone being prepared to put themselves out there.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/sarahlethbridgelean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/554\/2021\/05\/Yammer-2.png\")
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