Learning Outcomes

Soft skills

• Increased motivation (demonstrated by leading projects, developing products, participation etc).
• Better understanding of their leadership potential (personal leadership, task leadership, community leadership).
• Increase in feelings of self efficacy and confidence to develop social entrepreneurship and or small business ideas (i.e. how empowered they felt to make a difference in the community).
• Collaborate with senior consultants and professional mentors in the social enterprise and development space.
• Improved communication and engagement with local community.
• Improved goal setting strategies.
• Increased understanding and ability to work as part of a team.
• Improved time management skills.

Social impact and enterprise start-up skills:

• Social enterprise (what is it, differentiating between a business/social enterprise).
• Social impact (what is it, how do my actions have an impact).
• Questioning (what are the issues I care about, what are the root causes of these problems).
• Problem solving through ideation (how can I think of new ideas to solve problems).
• Customer empathy mapping (who is my customer, what do they hear, do, think, feel).
• Creating a value proposition (positioning and elevator pitch).
• Market research (creating a survey to test assumptions).
• Prototyping (how can demonstrate my product/service).
• Budgeting (costs and revenue).
• Pitching (communication/persuasion).

What to Expect

In previous Young Change Agents programs social enterprise ideas have included:

• Music therapy app for people for Alzheimer’s.
• Edu-Hub - a collaboration tool between students at different schools to assist with difficult homework/assignments.
• A website where students can virtually travel the world and teens from other countries to create more cultural understanding and address racism.
• An online, positive media-channel for youth that takes the "scary" out of news and instead provides inspiration for the future.
• An app that allows you to communicate with Emergency Departments in real-time when you have a sporting injury so you can be queued at the hospital pre-arrival.
• A games-based app for reducing littering that utilises positive reinforcement (you move up levels by creating clean environments).
• D-Games - a games company with 50% and higher representation from people with disability. Games are made to bring to bust the myths on disability in a fun, engaging way.
• 1:for:1 coding classes to provide free opportunities for refugees and people with disability to learn how to code.
• Website and service that links farmers with fruit picking and other farm jobs to young unemployed people to provide work opportunities (including removing barriers to starting like transport support etc).
• Online meal delivery service with food prepared by refugee mothers using school commercial kitchens in off-peak teaching periods.
• A website that allows professional mothers to sell baby goods directly to disadvantaged mothers at low prices (with NFP's acting in support).
• Energy-saving lady-bugs - fun animal characters for kids that remind you to turn off the power.
• Granny-2-go - a website that links our older generation with young mums/single mums who need occasional babysitting support whilst they carry out errands.
• PS - a platform that gives students a say in the why, what, and how of their education.