Joe Mankowski’s Post

2 hours. About 50 purpose-passionate faculty/staff. Over 100 ideas and initiatives that help us infuse purpose work across our campus community! Last Friday, Marcus Knight and I hosted an event that we called a "Mixer on Purpose." We invited all Belmont faculty and staff to come out and participate in a collaborative brainstorming activity. The ask? Share with us how we can better engage various stakeholder groups in work that helps them discover or pursue their purpose. Attendees used color-coded cards to highlight existing initiatives worth celebrating, suggest tweaks to initiatives that need refining, and even propose wild, out-of-the-box ideas that might just surprise us! Will we be able to implement every single idea? Probably not. But as we diligently review and catalog each card, we've already uncovered some "quick wins" that will help us engage students, faculty, staff, alumni, and our wider community in this crucial endeavor. This definitely won't be the last time we gather in this way, but I'm curious: What creative methods do you use to crowdsource ideas? What valuable lessons have you learned along the way? #Creativity #Innovation #Purpose