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Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast Carmel McConnell

Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast By Carmel McConnell

Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast by Carmel McConnell


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Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast Summary

Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast: Make Big Things Happen Fast by Carmel McConnell

This book is for anyone wanting to make change happen in their life, in their workplace or community and possibly for a better world. It shows how social activists ask better questions, take baby steps to move to the next level. From green campaigns to building profitable, trusted teams, to Government policy, Carmel offers practical tools and strategies in your personal and professional life. Rather than tune out or hope someone else will create the best options, Change Activists use passion, purpose and a compelling plan to move forward. Change activists ask better questions - what am I passionate about, what change do I want to see in the world, how can I make big things happen fast in my life? If you are interested in values led change for yourself, and across any kind of organization this will help; there is power in being true to yourself, in doing the right thing. And it is your life, so don't be plastic about it.

The book describes how to navigate the ups and downs of making change happen; from start up to scale up, to winning backers and allies. Through interviews with global change leaders including Big Issue co Founder Lord John Bird, Kenyan education leader Qabale Duba and Indian vaccination activist Varsha Vanugobal, Carmel unpacks the elements of successful change activists, suggests we are all capable of more, if we take action. This is a practical guide - Carmel wants everyone to find and play their part in a better future.

Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast Reviews

Could Carmel McConnell be our answer to Oprah? ***** This is a great self-help book. I have finished a course of study in a new area after having been a lawyer for too many years. I am now trying to find a job and have had a few setbacks recently. I had reached the stage of wondering whether I had made a big mistake to give up my salary to find something more satisfying to do. I had bought this book for my husband (he still hasn't read it) but decided to have a look at it myself. As a result I now have a revived sense of enthusiasm for job hunting plus some ideas on how to do it more effectively. More importantly I have realised that it is not mad to want to make changes and to challenge the status quo. I was once told by one of my bosses that I was too idealistic. This book has helped me to see that he was not idealistic enough. If more partners in law firms had read Carmel McConnell's book I might still be a lawyer! I enjoyed the bright colour of the cover, the difference in print size and type and the easily digestible chunks of wisdom. The exercises are practical-often self-help tasks are so daunting that I give up half-way through. These are manageable but still thought-provoking. I'm so enthused I'm going to look up the web links listed at the back of the book. That's a first for me.

A breath of fresh air! ***** Phew! - what a lady you are Carmel McConnell! This is truly brilliant writing, and, without sounding corny, yes, a book to 'change your life' - but in such a positive and outward looking way...

About Carmel McConnell

Carmel McConnell's background is a mixture of social activism and business. She is a campaigner and fierce optimist about creating a better world.

While researching her first book Change Activist, in 2000, Carmel interviewed five headteachers in the London borough of Hackney who told her that many of their pupils arrived at school too hungry or malnourished to learn. Carmel started buying and delivering breakfast food to these schools, with remarkable results as children's concentration, behaviour, punctuality and educational attainment significantly improved. As demand for her help grew, Carmel took time out from her City technology consultancy, setting up Magic Breakfast in 2003.

Today, Magic Breakfast and the National School Breakfast Programme (DfE funded to March 2021) provides healthy breakfasts to around 400,000 children in England and Scotland during term time. Carmel was awarded an MBE for her services to school food in the New Year's Honours 2016. In 2018 she received an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University for improving access to education. She became the 2018 Woman of the Year Campaigner Category at a ceremony in July 2018. Carmel still works full time on Magic Breakfast as well as media work, speaking, writing and faffing around on social media.

Table of Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

  • What is a change activist?
  • Why change activism is needed now?
  • And you should listen to me because..?
  • My change activist story

PART 1: CHANGE YOUR LIFE

  • How can you take charge of your life?
  • How open are you to change?
  • What do you stand for?
  • If the direction of your life feels unclear, it's ok, start here
  • Passion, purpose, plan for successful change
  • What did activism ever do for anyone?
  • The benefits of change activism
  • Choose action or stay passive
  • What do you want to change?
  • Is very, very ok to ask for help
  • My passion, my purpose, my plan
  • Practical activism - here's how
  • 10 step self-development plan
  • And action - toolkit and exercises

PART 2: CHANGE HOW YOU WORK

  • Change Activism can strengthen your bottom line
  • What does purpose-led business look like?
  • Purpose led companies outperform
  • Fairness as a business norm
  • To your mind and soul
  • How to create multi million pound social partnerships
  • Profit and principles
  • What's that got to do with me?
  • Change led by you, energises you

PART 3: RADICAL SELF-CARE

  • Nourish your mind, body and soul
  • Why life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
  • Resilience starts with radical self care
  • Becoming a priority in your own life
  • Your beliefs about reality create your experience of it
  • Ask better questions
  • Team You

Part 4: A NEW CHANGE ACTIVIST IDEA

  • Can we create a post-poverty Britain?
  • The L.I.F.E. programme - more information

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

Additional information

GOR012951557
9781292350868
1292350865
Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast: Make Big Things Happen Fast by Carmel McConnell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
20220518
296
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