Understanding Social Enterprise Workshop

16 Enterprise Coordinators from North Lanarkshire attended the first Understanding Social Enterprise Workshop in Motherwell Heritage Centre last Friday.  The day was presented by Social Entrepreneur Jay Lamb.

Jay’s 27 years in educational settings has included working as an Outdoor Activity Instructor, Environmental Educator, Community Educator, Social Enterprise Advisor and Tutor with the Social Enterprise Academy.

His career has involved a pattern of: having a new experience, learning from that experience and then engaging others in learning about the subject it involved – be that, juggling, sustainable building, canal life, or setting up and developing a social enterprise the cycle has been the same.

Social Enterprise projects in schools deliver skills for Life, Learning and Work in a real-life context.  Students are given a real flavour of the world of work and how businesses can make a real difference to communities.

If you would be interested in attending the next workshop, please contact Lynn Taylor on First Class.

Dragons’ Lair Finalists

Well done to the teams who are through to this year’s Dragons’ Lair final…

Dalziel High School – Ozone Host

Bellshill Academy – Grassias

St Margaret’s High School – GiG It

St Margaret’s High School – I pocket

Abronhill High School – Keasy

Our Lady’s High School – Cumbernauld – Bo Peep

Thank you to all of the teams who submitted entries for the Dragons’ Lair.  The competition received many more entries than previously and the standard of entries has been very high this year.

We would like to wish all the finalists the best of luck and look forward to hearing them pitch their business idea to the Dragons!

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Pupil Enterprise Showcase

We now have a new Enterprise Showcase Blog.  This Blog will act as a vehicle for pupils to share the Enterprising work they are doing to develop their skills for Life, Learning and Work.

If you would like your school to feature on the showcase, please email Lynn Taylor on First Class.

The Blog currently sits in Glow, so you’ll need your Glow login to access the site.  www.bit.ly/pupilenterprise

Jack Black to attend this year’s Dragons’ Lair Event

We are delighted to announce that Jack Black will be attending this year’s Dragons’ Lair event.  As well as being a keynote speaker at the event, Jack will also spend time with the teams of students before their presentations to the Dragons in the Lair!

About Jack Black

“The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.”  Jack Black

In the 1980s, Jack Black was a social worker in the underprivileged East End of Glasgow. After seeing two colleagues destroy their health through the stress of work whilst only in their 40s, and then experiencing a similar collapse himself, he decided to discover how stress could be managed and personal development harnessed to allow people to fulfil their potential. MindStore was the culmination of his findings and now, Jack is recognised as one of the UK’s leading authorities on personal development and peak performance for corporate training he is also an internationally renowned keynote speaker.

Jack’s motivating presentation style moves his audience to make massive changes in their way of thinking, whilst it is inspiring and entertaining. His contribution to performance improvement throughout the world has created a reputation that is second to none. Jack has taught the “MindStore” programmes to business leaders and top entrepreneurs. Over half of the FTSE 100 leading companies are clients of his corporate training programmes.  World champions and teams from sport, entertainers and endless leaders and work forces from blue chip companies around the world have all benefited from his teachings.

A founder member of the Entrepreneurial Exchange and previously nominated by the Scotsman newspaper as “one of the top individuals to shape our nation,” Jack has appeared on numerous television and radio programmes. He is regularly featured in magazines and national newspapers.  Jack continues to work with international leaders in the field of performance coaching, creating leading edge approaches to organisational and personal development.  Jack continues to be busy presenting on the international conference circuit.

Heard of Micro-Tyco?

Micro-Tyco: Is your heart pounding?

Unfortunately it’s too late to join this year’s Micro-Tyco Challenge.  But – it’s well worth finding out about with an eye to joining in next year.  The WildHearts website is brilliant and has many clips, like the one from Sir Tom Hunter featured here, that can be used as a stimulus with pupils.  Mike Jackson who runs Micro-Tyco is an absolute inspiration.

Micro-Tyco is the exciting new concept from WildHearts. Its vision is nothing less than the ignition of the spirit of enterprise across our whole culture, from our leading corporates to our universities, secondary and primary schools, and even nurseries.  It is an enterprise challenge that brings our whole society together, reconnects us to one another, to what really matters, and compels us to collectively raise the bar in what we believe is possible for ourselves and our culture.

It inspires our companies to excel and our children to believe, creates compassionate global citizens and will inspire the leaders our country deserves.

Micro-Tyco is the product of over ten years experience in enterprise education and entrepreneurial success and is designed to invigorate our companies, challenge the dependency culture and stimulate self-reliance and enterprise. It is fast, fun and furious, forcing contestants to break out of their limited self perceptions and comfort zones. Micro-Tyco inspires the spirit of enterprise in its purest form and rewards participants with the knowledge that in business, if they can succeed at Micro-Tyco, they can succeed at anything.

How does it work? Micro-Tyco will run every November. Teams ‘apply’ to WildHearts for ‘seed capital’; a micro-loan of £1. Once the clock starts on November 1st they have one month to turn it into as much money as possible. On November 30th the team with the most money wins. There are only two rules: teams cannot gamble and transactions must be legal.

Who can enter? School, colleges, universities, clubs and companies can enter teams to Micro-Tyco. Each team must have no more than 5 members but each organisation can enter as many teams as they wish. Companies compete against companies, schools against schools and Universities and Colleges against each other, with one winner from each group.

Companies are encouraged to partner with a local school. In this partnership the teams remain separate but become allies who collaborate to exchange knowledge, encouragement and pool resources. Business people will inspire children and be inspired in return. The learning process is further enhanced by online video mentoring from many of our business leaders who support the WildHearts vision.

The competition keeps you sharp, the deadline keeps the pressure on. Micro-Tyco does not care about your qualifications or where you are from.  Its apparent simplicity is deceptive. The low value of the £1 loan entices you to get involved but then takes you on a journey where the challenge grows with the money. It is a seed that reveals your inner wealth and helps you discover talents you never knew you had. As the money grows, so will you.

The money created from Micro-Tyco will then be invested by WildHearts in micro-loans to help the world’s poorest people work their own way out of poverty with dignity and self respect. As a result participants will go from becoming dynamic wealth creators to global ethical investors. Micro-Tyco’s gift to you will be the knowledge that once you release your talents the whole world benefits.

Unfortunately it’s too late to join this year’s Micro Tyco Challenge.  But – it’s well worth finding out about with an eye to joining in next year.  The WildHearts website is brilliant and has many clips, like the one from Sir Tom Hunter featured here, that can be used as a stimulus with pupils.  Mike Jackson who runs Micro Tyco is an inspiration.

Micro-Tyco: Invest in yourself, invest in your company, invest in our children, invest in our community.

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It’s Global Entrepreneur Week!

Is your establishment planning anything for this week’s Global Entrepreneur focus?  If you are, please tell us about it.  We are designing a new Blog to showcase good Enterprise practice from around our Authority and we need your help.  From ante-preschool to S6, we want to show and share good practice.

Please send any photos or clips to Lynn Taylor on First Class.

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