仔仔玩玩具已去到新一階段，開始用玩具來裝備及保護自己，遲下除左頭盔，必定有用作攻擊的劍同盾牌。我自己呢件大玩具，也會被升級為阿凡達加高達加渣古加牛牛加馬馬的新一代萬能玩伴。
2013年11月28日 星期四
2013年9月12日 星期四
全身投入社企 與 生命調味料
以下是一篇從蘋果日報轉載過來的文章
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/news/20130910/51716038
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近日因爲要想一些新的社企項目出來，所以不斷在網絡上查看不同的研究報告，及其他機構的成功案例。
除了上面的案例外，最近看到的還有陳葒校長的陳校長免費補習天地 (http://hkcnc.org.hk/)，也是一個很有熱情，做了十年工作的專業人士，他放下月薪十萬的工作去服務社會。自己和他們相比，我沒有那麼戲劇性的經歷，有熱情但是未能夠去到盡，做了七年工作的專業人士，減薪四成去服務社會。
很高興可以有時間去瞭解不同的熱心人士爲社會所付出的力量。在以前的忙碌生活下，我是沒有空間去思考這些事情的。
希望有一天，我也可以以戲劇性的經歷開展一番事業，有能力與不同教會一起叫人認識耶穌，叫人經歷豐盛的生命。在那一天，我會叫這教會顧問工作爲"生命調味料" ─ 有了我們一班教會顧問的幫助，教會可以令人的生命更有味道，更為吸引！
註：教會顧問在外國已經發展得很成熟，也很有系統，有研究中心，有方法論，有評估工具，有培訓認証架構。以下是一些參考：
Society for Church Consulting - http://www.churchconsultation.org/
Church Central - http://www.churchcentral.com/
Training Framework - http://l.b5z.net/i/u/6101790/f/Website_Traning___Certification_Document.pdf
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/news/20130910/51716038
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【孟加拉奇蹟】窮人銀行感動港女 唔撈Banker搞社企
銀行副總裁Katherine本來年薪過百萬，然而，今年中她受孟加拉的窮人銀行家尤努斯啟發，竟甘願放棄高薪厚職，以獻身社企為終生目標。
Katherine在銀行界奮鬥11年，終於升至副總裁位置，自此她每天坐辦公室眺望維港、寫寫電郵，坐滿9小時便可放工，而且一年還有25日假，可謂不少打工仔夢寐以求的生活。可是一年前兒子出生，竟令她重新審視自己的人生之路：「我做了媽媽，望住孩子一天天長大，我希望他可以成為一個好人，一個開心的人，可以為社會做一些好事。我發覺，我對孩子的期望，反映了自己內心的真正價值。十年後，我希望自己可以做到什麼？」
過去她在銀行從事消費者信貸的業務分析，行內俗稱「放水」。她的職責就是以數據及科學化方法，策略性與精准地去計算，決定銀行要借錢給誰，甚麽時候借，借多少，收多少利息。最終目標就如所有公司一樣，要把利潤最大化。銀行要賺到盡，最好是債仔習慣借得多，還很少，不會破產，但長借長還，用信用卡則最好只還最低還款額。然而，親眼目睹雷曼等一連串金融事件，令Katherine不得不對工作有所反思。己為人母，一心養育好孩子的她，開始意識到舊式銀行制度只顧賺錢，而忽略對社會的禍害。
躊躇著要不要辭職之際，她讀到尤努斯的《Banker to the Poor》，內容講述這位諾貝爾和平獎得主，如何在孟加拉開設社企銀行，並在過去40年間，幫助1,000萬窮人改變命運。尤努斯的故事，為Katherine帶來極大衝擊。於是，縱然誕下寶寶才11個月，她還是毅然跟隨「仁人學社」飛到孟加拉，希望親身考察窮人銀行:「那裡只是間鐵皮屋，只有一張檯、一張櫈，有一個分行經理，還有一本數簿，很簡陋。」不過她也深深體會這裡跟傳統銀行的差別。當地銀行家會每天走進鄉村，教窮人借錢養牛、買車，讓他們自豪地做生意，養家活兒。雖然來借錢的都是社會上最窮的人，但其壞帳居然只有1%。
就是這麼一個奇蹟，讓她明白窮人需要的也許只是一個機會。回港第一天便辭掉工作，她轉而去「仁人學社」就讀社企管理，為將來的事業做好準備。更戲劇化的，是前後兩個考察團中尚有3個香港銀行家，都先後丟下「大信封」，全身投入社企。談到將來，Katherine憧憬著各種可能，包括當一個社企的經理、股東、夥伴，或者社企基金管理人。崗位，也許已不再重要，因為尤努斯給了她一個信念：任何人都是社會的創革者；一個人都足以改變世界。
記者：鄧玉燕
近日因爲要想一些新的社企項目出來，所以不斷在網絡上查看不同的研究報告，及其他機構的成功案例。
除了上面的案例外，最近看到的還有陳葒校長的陳校長免費補習天地 (http://hkcnc.org.hk/)，也是一個很有熱情，做了十年工作的專業人士，他放下月薪十萬的工作去服務社會。自己和他們相比，我沒有那麼戲劇性的經歷，有熱情但是未能夠去到盡，做了七年工作的專業人士，減薪四成去服務社會。
很高興可以有時間去瞭解不同的熱心人士爲社會所付出的力量。在以前的忙碌生活下，我是沒有空間去思考這些事情的。
希望有一天，我也可以以戲劇性的經歷開展一番事業，有能力與不同教會一起叫人認識耶穌，叫人經歷豐盛的生命。在那一天，我會叫這教會顧問工作爲"生命調味料" ─ 有了我們一班教會顧問的幫助，教會可以令人的生命更有味道，更為吸引！
註：教會顧問在外國已經發展得很成熟，也很有系統，有研究中心，有方法論，有評估工具，有培訓認証架構。以下是一些參考：
Society for Church Consulting - http://www.churchconsultation.org/
Church Central - http://www.churchcentral.com/
Training Framework - http://l.b5z.net/i/u/6101790/f/Website_Traning___Certification_Document.pdf
2013年8月5日 星期一
End of Probation Period for My Second Job - Shifting from a Senior Consultant to a Programme Manager
End of Probation Period for My Second Job
- Shifting from a Senior Consultant to a Programme Manager
My new journey in social service sector started on 12/12/2012. Today is the end of my 6-month probation period for the second job in my life. I am currently working as a programme manager in Internet Learning Resources Centre (ILRC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS).
Last year, with my wife's full support, I gave up a great offer with 500K+ annual income from another international consulting firm, and pursued a new career in social service sector with deep pay cut. It is part of the realization process of my vision on consulting for not-for-profit organizations, especially for churches. Therefore, it worth the price.
When people ask about my job, the simple answer is that "I am helping government on a programme against poverty, and we focus to help the underprivileged teenagers." To supplement, we are operating a social enterprise and the brand name we used for the government programme is "WebOrganic". We target to become self-sustainable financially when the 5-year programme ends.
Wan Chai Office and Lai Chi Kok Office
Our WebOrganic office is in the Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, Wan Chai.
We have a new office in Lai Chi Kok in January 2013.
My Team
This is a team photo taken in Apr 2013. We got a team of 17 people. Erwin (leftmost) is our CEO. Tony (forth from left) is our GM, who was previously worked in PCCW. Both of them are very bright and I learnt a lot of engagement and management skills from them.
I am lucky to have two subordinates to help me. This is Nic Chan (Right) and he is very helpful and smart.
@Work
We attended a lot of presentations, organization visits, product demonstration, conference, open lessons, seminars, and activities.
All key areas involve sales and marketing. Thanks God that I got equipped through my years in IBM and through my study in MSc (Marketing).
Why Change Join? My First Job as Consultant in IBM Hong Kong
I worked for my first employer, which is an international technology conglomerate, since my graduation of bachelor degree. Started as a consultant trainee, my career was not bad. Being promoted for two times and, when I left the company, I was a senior consultant in Business Intelligence practice. My job duty shifted from delivery to project engagement and project management, which meant selling successfully and then ensuring project execution was smooth. This was a fast-track to understand the biz world at operation level and my horizon was widely broadened.
The Answer... Two Diverse Offers for My Second Job
It was time to switch to a new environment at the seventh year in IBM, even though there were some financial incentives. Finished my master degree in marketing and became a new member of the father club, I was proactively looking for more exposure and a new page for life. There were two offers for me which were really heading towards two extreme ends.
The first offer was from an international consulting firm and the other was from a new start-up social enterprise. The former one provided extremely good career development and financial incentives. After four rounds of interview, the position was secured and a significant paid raise was bargained. The second one was by invitation of a charismatic celebrity but on contract term and with huge pay cut. However, this was more aligned to my vision of church consulting, which is a deeply planted idea by God into my life.
Vision for Jeff - My Calling for Church Consulting
When I was in year 3 in HKU, I asked God if he wants me to become a full-time worker for his kingdom. He told me, "Yes, but not now. It's at the age of 40." One year from my start of consulting career, in a prayer, my mind was opened for a new idea about "church consulting". I always worry if such idea was out of my personal thought, however, after some more prayer, the passion continued to grow and glow in my heart. After discussion with some pastors and church teachers, I understood churches really need that, especially for small and medium churches. In addition, there is formal training for church consultants in America since long time ago.
Hard Way to Start - Changing Industry to Pave the Way for Church Consulting
Changing from one industry to another is no easy task. I knew that an extremely smart and experienced consultants were not taken by an NGO even with a significant pay cut. Switching from business and technology consulting to church consulting is difficult. A progressive shift from business to not-for-profit sector seems to be a good start for career migration.
Anxiety and Comfort
As you could imagine, it was a tough decision to change industry. However, thanks God for the courage and comfort through His own words in bible as below:
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
(Isaiah 55:11 NIV)
我口所出的話也必如此，決不徒然返回；卻要成就我所喜悅的，在我發他去成就的事上必然亨通。以賽亞書55章11節
Next Step
It is hard to know the next step. But I am sure God will get me more companions if it is the way He wants me to walk on. Please pray for me...
- Shifting from a Senior Consultant to a Programme Manager
My new journey in social service sector started on 12/12/2012. Today is the end of my 6-month probation period for the second job in my life. I am currently working as a programme manager in Internet Learning Resources Centre (ILRC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS).
Last year, with my wife's full support, I gave up a great offer with 500K+ annual income from another international consulting firm, and pursued a new career in social service sector with deep pay cut. It is part of the realization process of my vision on consulting for not-for-profit organizations, especially for churches. Therefore, it worth the price.
When people ask about my job, the simple answer is that "I am helping government on a programme against poverty, and we focus to help the underprivileged teenagers." To supplement, we are operating a social enterprise and the brand name we used for the government programme is "WebOrganic". We target to become self-sustainable financially when the 5-year programme ends.
Our WebOrganic office is in the Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, Wan Chai.
We have a new office in Lai Chi Kok in January 2013.
My Team
This is a team photo taken in Apr 2013. We got a team of 17 people. Erwin (leftmost) is our CEO. Tony (forth from left) is our GM, who was previously worked in PCCW. Both of them are very bright and I learnt a lot of engagement and management skills from them.
I am lucky to have two subordinates to help me. This is Nic Chan (Right) and he is very helpful and smart.
@Work
We attended a lot of presentations, organization visits, product demonstration, conference, open lessons, seminars, and activities.
- OGCIO Focus Group Observation for i-Learn-at-home (Dec 2012)
- iPad Game Booth in a Special School (Dec 2012)
- Open Lesson at Jockey Club Primary School (Jan 2013)
- i-Class Product Demonstration (Jan 2013)
- Dyknow Product Demonstration (Jan 2013)
- Wikimedia Presentation (Feb 2013)
- Open Lesson at The Lok Sin Tong Leung Wong Wai Fong Memorial School (Feb 2013)
- e-Learning Consortium EDU2.9 (Feb 2013)
- Open Lesson at Alliance Primary School - Whampoa (Mar 2013)
- Opening Ceremony of Jockey Club Digital Inclusion Center (Mar 2013)
- 啪着60個夢想 Briefing (Apr 2013)
- Community Investment and Inclusion Fund (CIIF) Briefing (Apr 2013)
- ICT Expo (May 2013)
- Attend staff meeting and learn about 4 pillars of HKCSS
- Engage suppliers (3HK, CSL, Wiki, Publisher, Infra, Apple Service Provider, etc)
- Respond to government tender on hardware rental
- Build a practice for E-learning consulting for schools
- Organize principal workshop
- Engage 3 schools to start e-Learning enablement projects
- Coach team member
- Hire part time staff
- Process appraisal of subordinate
- Develop roadmap planning for e-Learning in school
- Persuade and negotiate with prinicipals for hardware procurement
- Prepare QEF project proposal
- Deliver a speech in front of 300 people
- Share in front of 50 principals and teachers
- Buy HKD600 snacks and ship from Kowloon Tong to Tai Wai on my own
- Carry out marketing activities in social media network (FB, YouTube) for school
- Edit 10+ video clips for promotion
- Sell refurbished iPad to schools
- Attend funding briefing and hear moving stories
- Build and analyeze sales pipeline
- Analyze school needs and recommend next best action
- Attend 4+ open lessons & 10+ seminars
- Create and deliver school bulk purchase package for 2 schools
- Recruit for 100 students to attend an activity in super short timeframe
- Participate in 10+ lesson observation
- Engage Google for an activity
- Experience bad political situation due to Legco discussion
- Pay 360 to attend TED conference
- Get CE and accounting firm's signature for proposal approval
- Help school to get quotations to compare with my quotation
- Conduct teacher iPad training sessions
- Conduct co-plan sessions with primary 4 and primary 5 teachers
It is hard and long-winded to write all my experience here. Therefore, I picked three most impressive things to share.
- CSS Engagement - I started to engage Chiu Sheung School (CSS) from a casual conversation with a teacher in a seminar. Then I wrote a proposal in PowerPoint using my consulting experience in IBM. Finally, I successfully got CSS's principal to buy our idea and pay a small amount for our first-of-a-kind iPad e-Learning Enablement Pilot project. This project opened two more project opportunities for my team and kept us super busy over 4 months.
- EDU 2.9 - I got a last minute request from boss to present something in a seminar, since he was sick. However, he got no slides and I needed to create my own. While I was super busy with some school project, I found that the seminar was quite large in scale and had senior government officials being the guest. It was a "make-or-break" situation for my career and I squeezed myself for an extra mile to complete the task. It was a really great experience to challenge myself.
- Fire-fighting - While I was super busy with school project work, a competence colleague offered help on a time-consuming task. This task was about recruiting 100 students from Western area to join a high profile Digital Inclusion activity. The event date was a week after Easter holiday. My colleague reported to our boss that he could not recruit any students just a few days before Easter holiday. I was all out to get my friends and family members to help. My father got me one school and a senior lady got me another one, all routing through the principal level. My friend, Karen, got me the last and the most critical one. Thanks God for the grace and thanks my friends and family members to help fight against a fire.
New Scope of Work
My scope of work was update after Mar 2013. The new scope is:
My scope of work was update after Mar 2013. The new scope is:
- Business development and offering development
- School programme development and promotion
- Develop new projects for external funding
All key areas involve sales and marketing. Thanks God that I got equipped through my years in IBM and through my study in MSc (Marketing).
I worked for my first employer, which is an international technology conglomerate, since my graduation of bachelor degree. Started as a consultant trainee, my career was not bad. Being promoted for two times and, when I left the company, I was a senior consultant in Business Intelligence practice. My job duty shifted from delivery to project engagement and project management, which meant selling successfully and then ensuring project execution was smooth. This was a fast-track to understand the biz world at operation level and my horizon was widely broadened.
The Answer... Two Diverse Offers for My Second Job
It was time to switch to a new environment at the seventh year in IBM, even though there were some financial incentives. Finished my master degree in marketing and became a new member of the father club, I was proactively looking for more exposure and a new page for life. There were two offers for me which were really heading towards two extreme ends.
The first offer was from an international consulting firm and the other was from a new start-up social enterprise. The former one provided extremely good career development and financial incentives. After four rounds of interview, the position was secured and a significant paid raise was bargained. The second one was by invitation of a charismatic celebrity but on contract term and with huge pay cut. However, this was more aligned to my vision of church consulting, which is a deeply planted idea by God into my life.
Vision for Jeff - My Calling for Church Consulting
When I was in year 3 in HKU, I asked God if he wants me to become a full-time worker for his kingdom. He told me, "Yes, but not now. It's at the age of 40." One year from my start of consulting career, in a prayer, my mind was opened for a new idea about "church consulting". I always worry if such idea was out of my personal thought, however, after some more prayer, the passion continued to grow and glow in my heart. After discussion with some pastors and church teachers, I understood churches really need that, especially for small and medium churches. In addition, there is formal training for church consultants in America since long time ago.
Hard Way to Start - Changing Industry to Pave the Way for Church Consulting
Changing from one industry to another is no easy task. I knew that an extremely smart and experienced consultants were not taken by an NGO even with a significant pay cut. Switching from business and technology consulting to church consulting is difficult. A progressive shift from business to not-for-profit sector seems to be a good start for career migration.
Anxiety and Comfort
As you could imagine, it was a tough decision to change industry. However, thanks God for the courage and comfort through His own words in bible as below:
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
(Isaiah 55:11 NIV)
我口所出的話也必如此，決不徒然返回；卻要成就我所喜悅的，在我發他去成就的事上必然亨通。以賽亞書55章11節
Next Step
It is hard to know the next step. But I am sure God will get me more companions if it is the way He wants me to walk on. Please pray for me...
2013年2月7日 星期四
2013年1月6日 星期日
推動「師友計劃」的過程2011-2012
在2011年初，我在IBM工作，同時也在中文大學讀市場學碩士課程第一年的課程。IBM 當年慶祝100週年，鼓勵每一位員工做100小時的義務工作，也全球捐款USD100Million，給員工與慈善機構合作做一些創新的社會服務計劃。我覺得這是好的機會，去做一些義工活動！我也把這事放在禱告中。
在伉儷組開組的時候，組員Abbey和浩賢分享他們在2年前開始參加的一個數碼師友計劃 (Digital Mentorship Programme)。這個名爲 SLAM / SLOT 的師友計劃是在2009年開始，並在2010年的Hong Kong ICT Award 比賽中贏了一個金獎。負責推行這個計劃的Andrew Ma 和Eric Au Yeung，分別來自Ufire 和YMCA 港青。
因爲這個數碼師友實驗項目的成功，與及一些壓力團體的要求，政府在2011年開始了一個2億元的數碼計劃。這個數碼計劃是爲了回應香港30萬低收入家庭學生的數碼鴻溝問題，減少因爲學生未能上網學習，而導致的學習差異、輸在起跑線等等的問題。在知識型經濟下，這個學習差異的問題會慢慢影響這些學生知識的累積，嚴重降低他們在未來新經濟的競爭力，令他們被邊緣化，只能從事低端的職業。
這是一個跨代貧窮的問題。雖然貧窮的父母很多時候也會導致子女一代繼續貧窮，但是我們期望可以多給他們一個機會，脫離這個跨代的問題。（參考：一張圖片讓你秒懂：貧富差距不可能靠教育翻轉，只能不斷階級複製下去 http://buzzorange.com/2015/06/09/on-a-plate/ ）
Abbey 將會辭去自己的政府工，全職投入Ufire 的青年培訓工作，也分享了Ufire 的財務上的需要。我立刻提議申請IBM 的資助，最多可以申請10萬美元。但知道這資助的截止申請日期是4天後。機會一瞬即逝，唯有努力把握。第二天，我立刻找了IBM Corporate Citizenship 的 Mary Law ，問問她的意見，也找了 YMCA 的 Eric Au Yeung 和 Ufire 的 Andrew Ma 討論如何申請。我也找來IBM 的一位 Executive Barry Chan 去支持我們的申請。
經過大家的努力，我們最後成爲香港唯一成功的申請者。雖然我們只獲得1萬美金，但是我們從IBM的軟件部門得到幫忙，免費拿到我們原本預計需要9萬美元去買的軟件。除了1萬美金和IBM的軟件，我們也找了40多位IBMers 參與師友計劃，成爲友師(Mentor) 的Advisor，特別在各個師友小組作社區服務的日子以前，幫忙帶領活動的策劃及準備工作。我們更加組成了核心團隊支持整個計劃。我們也爲參與的IBMers安排了培訓活動。
師友計劃共有8次活動，在計劃的最後階段，各組會安排一個「社區服務日」，讓低收入家庭的學生也可以用自己的創意，去幫助其他人，由被幫助到幫助人。我們期望IBMers帶領各組安排社區服務日，也幫忙各組準備在師友計劃畢業禮當天作簡短的Presentation，分享各人在計劃裏的成長經驗。IBMers也參與了其中大概一半的活動，與計劃的參加者打好關係。
在計劃裏，我們發現一些同事非常熱心，Angeline 是其中一位。 她家住東涌，而我們的活動地方都是在九龍，而且是在星期六早上。她每一次也會準時出現，而且非常投入參與活動及討論。她也推動其他參與的同學一起爲社區服務日準備小禮物。Angeline 也給我們推出很多有用的意見及回饋。
在計劃完結後，我們的團隊獲得了一個由IBM的CEO簽名頒發的紀念狀。
(最右邊白色衣服的就是 Angeline)
在計劃完結後，我們的團隊獲得了一個由IBM的CEO簽名頒發的紀念狀。
參考：一張圖片讓你秒懂：貧富差距不可能靠教育翻轉，只能不斷階級複製下去
http://buzzorange.com/2015/06/09/on-a-plate/
1. 本篇原文標題 On a Plate按字面說法是「在盤子上」，但其實意思是「輕易獲得」，就好像有人放在盤子上端給你一樣簡單。
2. 最後一句理查說的是 “No one ever handed me anything on plate.“，此處的 hand sth to sb on (a) plate 意思就是讓某人輕易獲得某東西，但如果按照字面說法，就變成了「從來沒有人把東西用盤子端給我」，很諷刺地呼應了最後一張圖。
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