Periodic Awareness Tip #6 - Fun

INSERT FUN

Awareness training has to be periodic, so it sticks and remains top-of-mind or somewhere in that region. It is absolutely wrong to continue launching the same message. Surprising the audience with a different approach, from serious to light-hearted and fun, sometimes even cautiously over the top if that works for you company, will get more people on board than repeating the same message over and over again.

A few examples:

Well-placed self-relativism and humor is often appreciated. It does not, as often is feared, have to be to the detriment of your reputation. On the contrary.

A longer example is the "hypnotic" yearly training in these two videos:

REPEATED INTRO TO SERIES

Raising awareness amongst your company's staff is key as the human factor is quite often cited as the weakest link in data protection and security "in the field". Raising awareness also is not a one-off thing. You have to keep hitting the same nail. Preferably though, you try out different angles every time again, as information overload and boredom settle in quite rapidly. So let me periodically and in no particular order share some awareness raising materials. Let's aim for once per week and we'll see where we can get.

CALL TO ACTION

Please do comment on these posts: is this useful? what have you used in your organisation to engage the colleagues? how do you measure success? etc.