Toy's Stories - Reflection

ToY’s STORies “Adventures for Toys”

“The life and love we create is the life and love we live.”

Leo Buscaglia

Toy’s Stories – “Adventures for Toys”

Our Vision

Promote

the meaning, purpose and

value of charity

amongst schools and children

through

TOY SHARING


Our Objectives

Encourage children to

– select one of their favourite toys, – name the toy, – tell a story about the toy, and – share the toy and its story with another child who is less fortunate than them.

Gain support from schools and

parents and have them get as much involved as possible, spending some quality time with their children, in this

exploration of a new meaning,

purpose and value of charity.

Considering that the concept of donation may imply someone superior giving away something no longer useful to them to someone inferior, this “Toy’s Stories” project aims to take children on a fun ride of sharing one of their favourite toys and its story and further on to the “Adventures for Toys”.

The toy will then begin

a series of adventures with

the receiving child, hence the theme

“Adventures for Toys”


Our Action Plan

Actions we have taken ...


Slideshow: http://www.slideshare.net/ToyStories/the-big-day-for-toys-stories-adventures-for-toys Video: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=291165670964798

Results we have achieved ...

31 March 2012

Our Result – The Big Day

http://www.slideshare.net/ToyStories/the-big-day-for-toys-stories-adventures-for-toys

















http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=291165670964798


Our Result – The Tools & Sponsorships

Banner sponsored by Color Six Laboratories Ltd. 104 boxes of toys collected

Logistics sponsored by DHL

http://www.facebook.com/toysstories

Our Facebook Page

http://ourtoysstories.wordpress.com/ Our Blog

Event bringing schools, parents & children together

The Receiving School

The Sharing School

Stickers sponsored by Andy Hardware





http://ourtoysstories.wordpress.com/





Our Result – Marketing and Communications – 1


↑ Master Plan for Toy’s Stories

Leaflet for Toy’s Stories ↗


Our Result – Marketing and Communications – 2


↑ Letter to Schools

↑ Thank You Card

← Certificate of Appreciation

↓ Banner


Our Result – News Reports on “Sky Post” (晴報)

Published on 23 March 2012 — following “Toys Collection Day”

Children Giving Away Toys, Learning To Share

Published on 30 April 2012 — following “Toys Sharing Day (The Big Day)”

Learning To Write Thank You Cards, Spreading Love


Our Biggest Discoveries

What has worked ... ?

Time may always seem not enough. But you will always be able to find time for something you are

enthusiastic about. Time is definitely in our hands!

Vision without a task is only a dream.

A task without a vision is drudgery.

Vision with a task is but a dream fulfilled.

We had a Vision and we made it!

Official or unofficial doesn’t matter much.

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,

you are a leader.”

John Quincy Adams

Building a tribe is not

about you or me.

It’s about what

you believe and

how you reach out

and walk the talk.

More or less we all know our strengths and weaknesses. Yet it takes courage to step in and say,

“I will do it!” We, each of us, did it!

Stop making assumptions. I am me. You are you. Everyone out there has different needs and expectations. Walk up to them, ask and listen. You will be surprised at how things can be so simple.

We are human. We all want

to be connected one way or

another.


Our Biggest Challenges C

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Time How to bring the team together when we each have our own work/life challenges to tackle C

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People How to identify the right “audience” (sharing & receiving) and balance their interests C

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Faith How to lead oneself before leading others (“Believe it to see”)

What was done to address these challenges

BY has been the unofficial leader of the team – always there driving momentum. You see progress here, you then want to jump in & do your bit to drive progress there.

Each member takes ownership to do his/her tiny part whenever possible to contribute to a Vision.

With a Vision, you know the core of your existence; you know the purpose of TOY’s STORIES – to teach and encourage charity amongst schools & children.

Sticking to a Vision, you get a better grip on how to approach the right audience and balance the interests of all parties concerned.

To build trust, you need credibility. To build a tribe, you need people to believe what you believe and tag along to make change.

One step at a time. Don’t give up. You have a Vision. You jump in. You tackle issues one by one. And soon enough you will have overcome all barriers/obstacles.

Our Top 3 Challenges ...

People need to see to believe. You believe in yourself and your Vision and people will see and believe.

Resources

Caring

Achieve the Task

Good Name (branding)

Parenting

Parents want their children to explore, experience, learn

and be recognised


Our Biggest Learning

TOY’s STORIES

BY Sim

Dickson Pang

Jacquelyn Chen

Jennifer Cheung

Richard Gould

Vincent Wong

Transformational Leadership, Building a Tribe & Working as a Team

“We all have varying

agenda. It is how flexible,

accessible and caring we

can be as a team, balancing

the interests of all parties,

to build a remarkable tribe

and to achieve the goal we

have set.

“A strong sense of ownership.

A zeal for going the extra mile

to make a difference. A quest

into the power of love, sharing

and being who we can be.

That’s what transformational leadership has come to mean

to me.”

“You need to believe it yourself first before

others follow and believe what you believe.”

(Building a tribe)

communication materials, building

online support networks , etc.” (Working as a team)

“It is amazing to witness the distance of

team members in Toy’s Stories being

rapidly overcome through effective

delegation of tasks. Remote team

members can definitely make a strong

contribution through funding, preparing

“Different time zones, different life

challenges to face individually… Yet each

of us has done our own little bit with

such swiftness and effectiveness, adding

up to a Big whole, to make this project a

success. Support from my wife is also a

big boost to keep me going.” (Working as a team)

“I used to think that charity is all about donation. Through Toy’s Stories,

charity now means something more to me. It’s giving time to care and reaching out to support and share that mean more to those in need.” (Vision)


Looking back – This is how and where it started ...

Date:

14 December 2011

Venue:

The Hong Kong Gold Coast Hotel

Thank You!

“Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people

to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that can.” – Margaret Mead

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