For the first time in my life I’m LOVING math and wishing I had taken that statistics class in college. Can you believe it? Here’s why.
Several weeks ago I created my first ever community survey. I wanted to know more about you so that I can make sure what I’m creating is meeting your most important needs.
You responded and I got some surprising results. Here they are – along with why the information matters and what I’m going to do differently.
Results
- You are a dominantly female audience (97%), and in your middle years, 45-64 years old (72%). I knew this intuitively, but it was fun to see the numbers. (You look like me!)
- You value education and have either a Bachelor or Graduate degree (66%) or at least some college 25%. Clearly, you are a lifelong learner.
- Your total household income is more than $75,000 (65%), and you can be found in a huge variety of job positions, so much so, there’s no 1 thing that jumps out. I love that you bring an incredibly diverse scope of background and skills.
- Social Media Use was my biggest surprise.
- Facebook was #1 (93% ranked it #1)
- YouTube (79% ranked #2 or #3) virtually tied with
- Pinterest (75% ranked #2 or #3).
- You don’t listen to my podcast. (72%) (Many of you said you wanted to listen, but were too busy to fit them in.)
- You want to learn from me…
- #1 Communication Skills and
- #2 Self Development strategies.
- Your Biggest Challenges…
- Finding time to do what needs to get done (61%) and
- Desire to improve professional growth (45%), then
- Life/Work balance (35%).
Your dreams…travel, being fit, creating a business and spending time with your family all rose to the top. We women really do want to do it all!
My top 5 Action Items based on the survey…
1. January 5th I’ll be offering a free webinar to help you dig deep to Discover your Calling and Develop your Plan for the new year. More info. on that will be coming shortly. (It will have a wonderful name I’m sure, I just haven’t come up with it yet…title ideas welcomed.) 🙂
2. I’ll continue finding excellent outside resources to recommend. The first is available now, 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever, by Michael Hyatt, and then in January there’s a free Peak Performance Summit you can register for here now. More on both of these as we go.
3. I’ll be creating YouTube tutorials focused on communication skills and strategies to help you communicate most effectively (get what you want!)
4. My podcast is going to reformatted into a short 5-10 minute production that you can fit into your busy schedules.
5. Finally, I’m going to send the survey at a different time of year. (Feb or March will be good.) Late fall is such a busy time of year, I know many of you wanted to take the survey, but just couldn’t squeeze it in. So, next time I’ll find a less “intense” time of year to send so I can get even more feedback.
Thank you so much! I just love connecting with you and I’m excited about the year to come. What are you excited about this for this coming year? I’d love to hear what’s top of your mind! You can comment here or better yet…(see, I’m learning…) “like,” then post on my Facebook Page here. Love ya!
Christy 🙂