Connecting with students
I’ve been working over the weekend on an idea for connecting with students in Sheffield. There are over 50,000 students at the two main universities and it is definitely a group of people we want to serve and impact.
We are looking to create some movement around two different areas really:
- Gallup StrengthsFinder
- Vox Sheffield
We really want to get the Gallup StrengthsFinder tool out to as many students as possible. It is such a helpful tool for understanding ourselves better and figuring out how we can play to our strengths.
And with Vox Sheffield, we’d love to create a student stream to this. Vox Sheffield is a movement we have set up to showcase creativity in Sheffield and work together to create a better world.
Our intention is to try and connect with 10 to 12 key students who we’ll invest in with a view to them becoming the catalysts that make this idea a reality.
I am confident about every stage of this apart from the first really. And that is the key to it all: connecting with the right students to lead this. We don’t really have many natural links into the universities at this stage and so I’m looking to come up with creative ways to try and attract the right kind of people.
Should be fun!
August 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Sounds like a GREAT idea! This might be an obvious suggestion, but contacting the heads of the student body would be a good starting point. The students involved in the student body(class president and so forth) are usually the ones most excited about leadership. Of course, it could also be presented to the students taking a political or law degree.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Thanks for that Deana. Good ideas!
August 13th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
With the two parts of my work being citychurch and university chaplaincy I have been looking for the most natural bridge between the two. StrengthsFinder has been the most obvious one - it will be good to have a chat with you about this amongst other things.