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name: enablement-program-cadence-builder
description: "Builds a repeatable enablement program cadence with a phased timeline, recurring ceremony schedule, per-role responsibilities, content and certification milestones, reinforcement loops, and adoption metrics for launches and operational change events. Use when planning a product launch enablement rollout, standing up an ongoing enablement program, or driving a GTM team through a process, tooling, or messaging change."
argument-hint: "[program-type] [audience]"
allowed-tools: ["Read"]
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# Enablement Program Cadence Builder

## Purpose
Turn a one-time enablement effort into a repeatable, dated cadence — a phased timeline with recurring ceremonies, role assignments, certification milestones, and reinforcement loops — so GTM teams adopt new products, processes, or messaging on schedule instead of forgetting the training a week after it ships.

## When to Use
Invoke this skill when the user asks to:
- Plan the enablement rollout for a product launch or major feature release
- Stand up a recurring enablement program (onboarding, ongoing skills, quarterly refreshers)
- Drive a GTM team through a process, CRM, or tooling change
- Roll out new messaging, positioning, or pricing to sales and CS teams
- Build a repeatable enablement timeline they can reuse for future launches
- Add reinforcement and certification to a program that trained once and never followed up

## Inputs Required
Before starting, collect:
- **Program type**: Launch / process change / tooling migration / messaging update / recurring onboarding
- **Target audience**: Which roles are being enabled (AEs, SDRs, CSMs, SEs, partners) and approximate headcount
- **Go-live date**: When the audience must be ready to execute in the field
- **Program owner and contributors**: Who owns the program, plus content/SME/manager roles available
- **Delivery constraints**: Time each role can realistically give to enablement per week, plus live vs. async preference
- **Existing assets**: Any content, decks, or LMS courses already built vs. built from scratch
- **Success definition**: The behavior change or metric that proves the program worked (e.g., % reps certified, ramp time, pipeline sourced)

If go-live date or headcount is missing, assume a 4-week runway and a single 25-person GTM team, and note the assumption.

## Instructions

### Step 1: Set the Program Backbone
Anchor the cadence to the go-live date and work backward.
- Classify the program by **urgency and complexity** to pick a runway length:
  - Simple messaging update → 2-week runway
  - Standard product/feature launch → 4-week runway
  - Process or tooling change requiring behavior change → 6-week runway
  - Net-new motion or platform migration → 8-week runway
- Divide the runway into four phases: **Pre-Launch (build + prime)**, **Launch (train)**, **Adoption (apply)**, **Reinforcement (sustain)**.
- Assign each phase a start/end date relative to go-live (e.g., "T-4 weeks", "Go-live week", "T+2 weeks", "T+6 weeks").

### Step 2: Map the Phase Timeline
For each of the four phases, define concrete dated activities:

**Pre-Launch (Build + Prime)**
- SME content intake and asset build/refresh milestones
- Manager pre-brief so frontline managers can reinforce
- Teaser communication to the audience (what's coming, why it matters, time commitment)

**Launch (Train)**
- Core training delivery — live session, async module, or both based on delivery preference
- Role-specific breakouts where the motion differs by role
- Baseline knowledge check

**Adoption (Apply)**
- Practice reps: call scenarios, mock demos, sandbox tasks, or live-deal application
- Certification checkpoint (see Step 4)
- Manager 1:1 coaching prompt tied to real pipeline

**Reinforcement (Sustain)**
- Spaced reinforcement touchpoints (micro-refreshers, tip-of-the-week)
- Adoption data review and gap remediation
- Retrospective and cadence-reset for the next cycle

### Step 3: Define the Recurring Ceremony Schedule
List every recurring meeting or touchpoint with owner, audience, frequency, duration, and purpose. Include at minimum:
- **Kickoff / launch session** — one-time, all audience
- **Role breakouts** — per role, during Launch/Adoption
- **Office hours** — weekly during Adoption, standing 30 min
- **Manager sync** — weekly, program owner + frontline managers, to review adoption signals
- **Reinforcement drop** — async, weekly during Reinforcement
- **Retro** — one-time at T+phase-end

Format as a table: Ceremony | Owner | Audience | Frequency | Duration | Purpose.

### Step 4: Build the Certification & Milestone Track
Define what "ready" means and how it's verified:
- **Knowledge milestone**: Quiz or assessment with a pass threshold (default 80%)
- **Application milestone**: A demonstrated skill — recorded pitch, mock demo, scored call, or completed sandbox task — with a rubric of 3-5 criteria
- **Certification deadline**: A dated cutoff (typically go-live + 1 week) with a defined consequence/escalation for non-completion
- **Recertification cadence** (for recurring programs): quarterly or per major release

### Step 5: Assign the RACI
For each phase, specify who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed across: Program Owner, Content/SME, Frontline Managers, Learners, and GTM Leadership. Keep it lightweight — one accountable owner per phase.

### Step 6: Define Reinforcement Loops
Specify the spaced-reinforcement mechanics that prevent forgetting:
- Reinforcement channel (Slack, LMS, email, huddle)
- Cadence over the 6 weeks post-launch (front-loaded, then tapering)
- Manager reinforcement prompts tied to real deals
- The feedback loop that routes recurring knowledge gaps back into content updates

### Step 7: Set Adoption Metrics & Reporting
Tie the program to the success definition with 4-6 tracked metrics:
- **Leading**: attendance %, certification %, content consumption
- **Behavioral**: usage of new talk track/tool/process in the field
- **Lagging**: the business metric from inputs (ramp, pipeline, win rate)
Specify what gets reported, to whom, and at what cadence (weekly during program, monthly after).

## Output Format
- **Structure**: Phased timeline first, then supporting schedules and tracks
- **Length**: 1,000–1,400 words
- **Format**: Dated phase timeline as structured bullets; ceremony schedule and RACI as tables; metrics as a labeled list
- **Sections**: Program Backbone → Phase Timeline (4 phases, dated) → Recurring Ceremony Schedule (table) → Certification & Milestone Track → RACI (table) → Reinforcement Loops → Adoption Metrics & Reporting
- **Tone**: Enablement program manager — operational, dated, execution-ready; every activity has an owner and a date relative to go-live

## Quality Checklist
Before delivering output, verify:
- [ ] Every phase has explicit dates expressed relative to go-live (T-minus / T-plus)
- [ ] The ceremony schedule table includes owner, frequency, and duration for each recurring touchpoint
- [ ] Certification includes both a knowledge threshold and an application rubric with a dated deadline
- [ ] The RACI names one accountable owner per phase — no phase left unowned
- [ ] Reinforcement loops span at least 6 weeks post-launch, not just a single follow-up
- [ ] Adoption metrics include at least one leading, one behavioral, and one lagging measure tied to the stated success definition

## Notes
- The most common failure mode is a strong launch week with zero reinforcement — weight the design toward the Adoption and Reinforcement phases, not just the training event.
- Manager involvement is the highest-leverage variable; if frontline managers aren't briefed before launch, adoption stalls regardless of content quality.
- Build the cadence to be reusable: once dated relative to go-live, the same structure can be re-run for the next launch by simply shifting the anchor date.
- For recurring programs (onboarding, quarterly refreshers), design the retro-to-content feedback loop so each cycle improves the next.

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