The Sixth Sense

Looking forward

It’s been great to be away for a week here in Switzerland. I can’t believe how quickly this week has passed by. Why is that always the case with holidays?!

I’m definitely feeling very refreshed though and looking forward to heading home and really getting stuck with everything that we have coming up between now and December.

We’ve just finalised the date for our next Vox event. It’s going to be held on November 20th. For those of you who don’t know, Vox is all about showcasing creativity in Sheffield and working together to create a better world. The November events creativity focus will be music. We’re looking forward to having some great musicians participate. Watch this space for more details!

Other exciting stuff coming up soon includes a video conference call with leaders of different ventures around the UK and Europe I’m organising. This looks like it’s going to happen towards the end of October.

As well as this, me and Rachel are heading over to Amsterdam at the end of the month to spend some time with our friends Shawna, Ali, and Alycia who are heading up a really exciting project over there called Reckoning.

So yeah, lots going on and lots to look forward to!

What’s going on in your world?

Tags: Leadership, VOX Sheffield

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:

1. Gallup StrengthsFinder
2. 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!

Tags: Leadership, StrengthsFinder, Students, VOX Sheffield

Progress

I realised today how much I thrive on progress. I need to feel like things are happening, that there is forward momentum. And, if there’s not, I can quite quickly start to feel drained.

Tonight three of us from Mosaic met to have a ’strategic planning session’ for something called VOX Sheffield. The vision with this is to try and create a movement that will give voice to both artists and causes. Essentially we want to showcase creativity in Sheffield and work together to create a better world.

We have made a few tentative steps in this direction in the past, but we really want to get this going. Ryan is going to be the catalyst and team leader. The meet up tonight was about setting some specific goals and identifying some tangible objectives.

I’m really excited and buzzed by the meeting. It really felt like a momentum creating meeting. Seems like we made some real progress and took some tangible steps forward. Watch this space for the details in the coming months!

What project are you passionate about right now?

Tags: Art, Causes, Mosaic, Progress, VOX Sheffield