Nikhil's #ChangeTheNow Passport

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Nikhil Sharma

My self Nikhil Sharma. I have done my Bachelors in Commerce and right now pursuing Global Business Management from Georgian College. With a fair fundamental understanding of the business attributes, I intent to commit to growth through continual learning
Georgian College
Global Business Management
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I want to be a Changemaker because...

Woking for your dreams is good but doing something for society gives you a fantastic feeling and I want a world where everyone gets what they deserve.

My Changemaker Pathway

Social Innovator iconI am a Social Innovator

I want to create new strategies, products or ideas to address social issues.

My UN Sustainable Development Goal
Sustainable Cities & Communities

As part of #ChangeTheNow, I’m working on solving UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

My Passport Stamps

#ChangeTheNow participants must complete modules centered around the Design Thinking process. Passport stamps are awarded as modules are completed.
My Mobius Module Completed
Team Canvass Module Completed
Changemaker in Residency Week Completed
Empathize Module Completed
Define Module Completed
Ideate Module Completed
Prototype & Test Module Completed
Pitch Module Completed
ME=WE Module Completed

Recent Activity

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    posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 09:16:47 -0700 complete_your_me_we_reflection_58

    πŸ€” Reflection question

    After completing CTN, what new awareness do you have for yourself (ME) and your community (WE) and what is one action you might take to continue to explore it?

    Nikhil's Answer

    CTN was a new and interesting experience. It helped me to understand that even a small effort can help in bringing big changes in society. It helped me to understand the importance of every stakeholder in a system. I learned about new and innovative ways to address a social problem and generate ideas to remove that issue.

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    posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 09:12:32 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_pitch_reflection_58

    πŸ€” Reflection question

    What did you learn about publicly sharing your ideas that you will carry with you in your future of work?

    Nikhil's Answer

    Publicly sharing our ideas helps in building self-confidence and self-esteem. It helps us in understanding different ideas and opinions, which ultimately helps in improving the understanding of the subject matter.

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    posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 09:08:33 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_prototype_test_reflection_58

    πŸ€” Reflection question

    How might the prototype & test stage help you with overcoming a fear of failure or challenging your assumptions about what is β€˜right’?

    Nikhil's Answer

    prototyping and testing the idea helps us in understanding the risks associated with the idea and the ways in which the idea can be improved further to meet the stakeholders' expectations and needs. We learned that an idea cannot be perfect without prototyping and testing it again and again to remove imperfections. It helped us to overcome the fear of failure by teaching us to continue working on a task until the required result is attained.

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    posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 08:54:22 -0700 _complete_your_hcdt_stage_ideate_reflection_58

    πŸ€” Reflection question

    How might ideation help you develop your active listening skills to brainstorm and reflect on ideas effectively with your team?

    Nikhil's Answer

    The ideate stage was a little confusing at the beginning, but it provided us with a fresh perspective to look at the issue and brainstorm and listen to the team's ideas. Listening to other ideas helps us to broaden our perspective and helps us to think in a different way.

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    posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 08:50:24 -0700 _complete_your_hcdt_stage_define_reflection_58

    πŸ€” Reflection question

    How might you explain the value of you having a systems-thinking mindset when attempting to define and understand a complex problem?

    Nikhil's Answer

    The systems thinking mindset helps us to understand the different parts of a particular problem. It helps us to solve the problem as well as other issues that might arise due to that problem or its solution. The iceberg model helped us to understand the root causes of the problem and the connected issues.

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    posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 08:46:39 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_empathize_reflection_58

    πŸ€” Reflection question

    After learning about how to empathize with the people affected by your SDG’s social issue, how you might apply empathy to working with the members on your CTN Innovation Team?

    Nikhil's Answer

    The empathy map canvas helped us to understand how important is it to empathize with the stakeholders who are being affected by the project. It allowed us to understand the issue properly and find solutions for it. While working on the innovation team, we can apply this knowledge to empathize with the team members and improve team performance.

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    posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-27 08:39:05 -0700 complete_your_changemaker_in_residency_week_reflection_58

    πŸ€” Reflection question

    What session inspired you the most during Changemaker in Residency Week, and why?

    Nikhil's Answer

    We did not have any changemaker in residency week sessions in our term.

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    posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-06-19 15:13:00 -0700 create_your_team_canvas_58

    πŸ€” Reflection question

    What did you personally learn about the process of creating your team canvass?

    Nikhil's Answer

    The process of creating a team canvass help to get to know teammates about their views and vision. It helped us to know about the individual qualities and strengths and the individual differences among all the team members. We also learnt that even with these differences, we can work together as an effective team by using the other team members' strengths and together, we can work progressively to make a difference.

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    posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-06-07 11:53:47 -0700 complete_your_mobius_strip_reflection_58

    πŸ€” Reflection question

    After completing the Mobius Strip exercise, what do you feel are next steps towards contributing to the community you care about?

    Nikhil's Answer

    After completing the Mobius strip exercise, I feel community issues should be given the same importance as we provide to our problems. I believe the best way to contribute to the community when we will start thinking we are doing it for ourselves or for our people. As this activity specifies ME=WE so we have to think of the community as we are doing something for ourselves and if I am doing something for myself so I have to think from a perspective that will also affect others as ME=WE. I think that we are also a part of the community if we think of it as a separate part then it will be difficult to contribute to anything in society. We are living in a community so we have to think about everyone and also we have to also think about our future generations. I believe if we start understanding the community problems as our own problems then it will be easy to resolve community issues.

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