21 July 2016
21 July 2016
As this year's Creativity Works: Festivals and Live Events programme draws to a close, our participants can finally relax and begin to reflect on their journeys.
Many started the programme with little-to-no experience in the sector but have left with the skills, confidence and contacts needed to take their first steps in their new career path. The process has by no means been easy - the last few weeks have been challenging and intense to say the least - but every single person did brilliantly and we couldn't have been prouder of them as they finished things off with a bang at their LDNXY graduation event (more on this soon...)
As you may have seen in previous posts, throughout the programme everyone on the course has been recording their experiences and progress on their own blogs. At the beginning of the programme all of the participants also set themselves personal goals and identified skills they wanted to develop and improve on. Now we've reached the end, here are a selection of excerpts on how they have found the experience...
'In the group, I experienced some difficulties such as communication barriers. There is no such thing as perfect communicator. Everyone’s communication skills is at different levels with some preferring one to one verbal communication while others prefer group communication.
One of the ways we looked to solve communication issues was to introduce WhatsApp, which many employers are now using to improve communication and ensure that everyone are part of wider conversations.
As an example, during my placement with The Streets, all the volunteers were added to Serious’ WhatsApp group... I used the WhatsApp group to let the wider group know that the session was coming to a close and that I needed help. Within minutes, help was on the way. It’s such a great way to communicate!'
Read her full blog post here.
'I took the course because I wanted to get straight into something rather than to just sit around being bored at home all day after finishing my college course. During the course I wanted to develop my organisation and planning skills and also boost my confidence and communication skills because I’ve been shy all my life.
During our week of training we were told we would need to start a blog, which I wasn’t too keen on doing because I wasn’t sure if I was able to put a blog post together as I was so used to just sharing my opinion in under 140 characters. But after I had wrote my first blog post, which was my music review and the artist actually re-tweeted the link to it, I realised it wasn’t so bad after all.'
Read her full blog post here.