Skill Build Slides

1. Welcome to Skill Build
Liz Taylor, Enterprise Officer, USE

2. What you will learn
• How to come up with an idea for
generating money for charity
• What is a Project Canvas?
• How a Project Canvas can help you
develop an idea

3. Fundraising
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=oWoRLD4S08k&list=UU9XMnntaI9bg_Zpi8s7ofq
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4. But how can you come up with an idea?

5. Bottle
Phone
Butter
3 nouns and a verb
I-Pad
Bread
Dog
Paper
Pen
Running
Jumpin
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Reading
Smiling
Eating Drinking

6. Six Thinking Hats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwu1YlveU4

8. Participants
• All project team
members,
stakeholders or third
parties that play a
role in the project

9. Goals
• What are you trying to
do? How are you going
to measure it?

10. Users
• Who are the target
market you are trying
to connect with?

11. User Benefits
• Why will the target
market engage with
the project?

12. Activities
• What are the key
tasks that you and the
team will have to do
in order to make the
project a success?

13. Deliverables
• What are the
desired
outcomes of
the project?

14. Risks
• What are the main
risks of the project?

15. Milestones
• When do the key
activities need to be
completed by?

16. Constraints
• Limits and conditional
requirements that
directly effect the
project

17. Scope
• What are the breath
of the project? What
is inside the remit of
the project and more
importantly, what is
outside of it?

18. Assignment
• You must attend
5/6 sessions
• You must complete
and pass an
assignment

19. Task 1
• We would like to you
design an activity that
could be used for
Sheffield RAG to
generate money for
charity.
• Write a brief of the
event (300 words) and
then produce a Project
Model Canvas for this
project. For each of the
areas, we will expect at
least six bullet points

20. Task 2
Complete four of the following questions:-
• Give an example of where you overcame a problem. Given the
chance, what would you do differently
• Describe your biggest achievement- why were you so successful?
• Give an example of communicating complex or difficult
information to an individual or group
• Give an example of a time when you had to deal with a conflict
within a team
• Give an example of your ability to work to deadlines and how you
cope with work pressure
• Give me an example of when you have worked on a team project-what
was the outcome and what was your role within the team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40x3sIQe9go

21. Skill Build Dates
16-Oct Introduction to Skill Build
23-Oct Team Formation
30-Oct Goal Setting
06-Nov Users and Benefits
13-Nov Events Management 1
20-Nov Events Management 2
All are 6.15-7.30 at St George’s Lecture
Theatre
Assignment deadline:-
12 midday on Friday 20th December 2013

22. Any questions ?