Work is hard. Nowadays, we seem to be running all the time and trying to keep up with all the changes happening in the world and in our workplace. Much of the time, we end up doing the same things everyday, every week. When we finally stop and ask ourselves: “Why am I doing this?”, we realise we don’t have the answer for that. In the middle of all the running, we realise that the passion for our work is gone. Or, sometimes, we’ve been doing the same thing for so long that we forget why we started doing it in the first place.   The other day, in the middle of a random search on Youtube, I came across a very interesting video of Simon Sinek. The video, named “Start with Why”, was featured as a TED Talk and talks about how lots of companies (and by default we feel, charities), when communicating to their audience, always seem to focus on what they do, rather than why they do it. And this is exactly what many of us have been doing with our lives: we know what we do, but can’t really say why.   Still inspired by the TED Talk, we at Makerble thought that it would be nice to go back to basics and start with why. So, why then, does Makerble do what it does?   The quick answer is: we want to make the world a better place faster. How? By enabling people involved in social change to work together to measure, iterate on and fund ambitious solutions.   There are a few of our core values at the heart of this: one, we’re stronger together, especially when united by a common cause, second: effecting social change is hard and so failure is inevitable while iteration and reflecting on learnings are essential; three: to know what to iterate on we first need to understand where we are. To do that we need to measure what we’re doing.   The “start with why” campaign starts now. We want to know why do you do what you do. What makes you get out of bed in the morning with a smile on your face, even though it’s cold, raining, and you’ll probably miss your train? Share your stories with us using the hashtag #Startwithwhy. Let’s remind ourselves o

Diana is our fictional Head of IT and here we delve into her story...   Introduction: Diana is in her fifties. She has been at a large charity for five years and currently she is the Head of IT. She enjoys letting people realise the potential that technology offers whether it’s to do with computers, digital equipment or the internet.   Daily Routine: She manages her team of people inside the charity and outside who work on IT related tasks. Sometimes people think that she is simply the person you call when your email isn’t working, but it is more than that. This charity has four different websites.   What frustrates her: People thinking that IT people are really boring and that all they do is solve problems. She knows that technology actually has the power to push things forward but sometimes it can feel like a real battle; for example to implement a new IT system requires adoption of it by staff, but few of the softwares she works with take users into account in the way they could.   What she loves about her job: Solving technical problems and seeing people adopt new technology, especially when those people were sceptical about it at first! Rolling out a new piece of software is often stressful but very rewarding and increases effectiveness.   Priorities: Make sure that everything runs smoothly in technical terms inside the organisation in order to get things moving forward. Free up headspace for her team to research solutions to the technology bottlenecks she finds herself facing and implement them.   Hopes: She hopes that people finally understand that IT is not just about solving problems and that it really has the potential to transform their work. She hopes people to listen her ideas and the things she has to say more often because all she wants is to help!   Fears: She knows that digital equipment and the internet can be unpredictable sometimes. She is afraid of being blamed for all the technical issues that occur within the organization. Especially where she has pushed for a particular software; what if it’s rubbish?   How does the Impact Tracker help? This particular piece of software solves a huge issue the operations team have been facing with collating impact information for funder reports. She knows they use spreadsheets at the moment and that it takes them hours to input all of the information into them. She’s so excited to introduce them to the real-time collection and collation that the Impact Tracker enables and save them that headache!   (Find out more about our Impact Tracker here! ; Click here to Sign Up for a Demo)

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