{"id":3119,"date":"2018-07-26T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2018-07-26T15:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T19:26:53","slug":"how-can-i-encourage-people-in-my-department-to-follow-a-brand-standard-without-making-the-standard-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/07\/26\/how-can-i-encourage-people-in-my-department-to-follow-a-brand-standard-without-making-the-standard-mandatory\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I encourage people in my department to follow a brand standard without making the standard mandatory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3118\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aw072618-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3118\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aw072618-2-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"How can I encourage people in my department to follow a brand standard without making the standard mandatory?\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aw072618-2-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aw072618-2.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can I encourage people in my department to follow a brand standard without making the standard mandatory?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Getting voluntary compliance with any sort of standard is always difficult. The Wall has 2 suggestions: 1) Have a carrot. Find a way to reward those who do follow the standard without punishing those who don&#8217;t. 2) Start &#8217;em young. Students, junior faculty, and early career staff are far more receptive to the idea that presentations and work need to follow standards, even if it&#8217;s not a requirement. The more that brand standard pops up around the department, the more normalized it will be such that anything different looks strange. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting voluntary compliance with any sort of standard is always difficult. The Wall has 2 suggestions: 1) Have a carrot. Find a way to reward those who do follow the standard without punishing those who don&#8217;t. 2) Start &#8217;em young. Students, junior faculty, and early career staff are far more receptive to the idea that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/07\/26\/how-can-i-encourage-people-in-my-department-to-follow-a-brand-standard-without-making-the-standard-mandatory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How can I encourage people in my department to follow a brand standard without making the standard mandatory?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}