Many of you have said that you may need to consider diversifying your income streams, especially where you might be heavily reliance on some sort of Government funding.
It is not sustainable if that is the case, and there is a framework that you can work through with your team to identify creative ways to become a more resilient organisation. If you are interested in this approach then please feel free to get in touch via email, wendy@wendyperry.com.au and we can make a time for a quick chat.
Inspired by Sue English in her session on Makers Spaces at the Community Colleges Australia 2024 Conference in Sydney this week here are some A-Z ideas that you can use as a checklist to see what you may already be doing and what else might be possible (with an income stream attached to each):
- Accessibility, Arts, Animals
- Buildings transformed, Buy Swap Sell
- Concerts, Charity Status, Community Engagement
- Disaster Recovery, Donations
- Employability Skills, Events
- Funding, Foundation Skills, Fee for Service
- Garage sales, Grants
- High School Alternative/Enhancement, Health, Hackathons
- Ideas, Innovation, Intergenerational Programs
- Jobs and Careers
- Knowledge and IP (packaging to make saleable and scaleable); Kitchens
- Life Skills, Landscaping
- Maker Space, Membership, Microcredentials, Micro forests
- Newspaper, Non-VET/HE programs, Non Accredited Options
- Off phone (helping people to get…), Overwhelm (dealing with it)
- Programs, Projects, Products
- Quick Accreditation, Quiet Spaces
- Reading, Retail skills, Reconnection, RTO Offerings
- Student Project Work, Sewing, Sheds, Story Telling
- Tshirts, Textiles, Tools, Tech
- Unis of Competency, Upcycling
- Volunteering, VET programs, Venues
- Workplace/Workforce Preparation, Webinars, Workshops, Wellbeing
- Xenophile Cultural Exchanges (appreciation of foreign cultures)
- Youth engagement
- Zero Waste Initiatives
This was a small part of the content I shared as part of being in Sydney for the Community Colleges Australia Annual Conference with a theme of Creative Resilience.
Speaking at the Plenary for day 1 on, “Resilient and Creative: You are your personal brand”, so if you are going along, someone you know will be, and/or your know of any of the speakers it would be awesome to see your positive reaction and tags, thanks!
Thanks for all your positive feedback on the session that I presented:
“ Wendy Perry thankyou so much for your contributions and energy at CCA “24 National Conf in the Emerald City 😊 Community Colleges Australia Russ Hawkins”
“Thanks for a great presentation Wendy.”
“Fabulous session – informative and inspiring. Thank you for sharing with us.”
“Great session Wendy, thank you :)”
“Wendy we would love you to talk about resilience and creativity with our group of Latino Entrepreneurs in Adelaide ⭐”
Gaining investment will take a longer conversation so if this is of interest to you, then please feel free to get in touch via wendy@wendyperry.com.au, thank you, Wendy Perry.
The following professional development programs have been tailored from feedback following my presentation relating to Personal Branding at the Community Colleges Australia Conference with a theme of Creative Resilience.
Within days of the presentation, I was published in 2 papers as you can see from the above links. One in regional South Australia and the other the Bhutanese national paper after an international invitation to attend the Bhutan Innovation Forum (BIF). If you want to build your personal brand and increase your influence, either in business, or education and training, check them out:
Start date: 19 November 2024 – 12 December 2024 (x4 weekly 1 hour live sessions from 11.00 am – 12.00 pm ACDT which are recorded, plus resources and videos).
If you attended the recent Community Colleges Australia Conference in Sydney, please apply code CCA.
Start date: 21 November 2024 – 13 December 2024 (x4 weekly 1 hour live sessions from 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm ACDT which are recorded, plus resources and videos).
If you are in the Switch Start Scale community and/or have been a client, please apply promo code SSS.