Hold Hands, Get Chocolate – No, not from your boyfriend
Milka, an Argentina chocolate company, set up a nifty vending machine with a catch, to promote “tenderness” between strangers. Bear with us… You see, in order to dispense the free chocolate, people need to hold hands, one on one end touching the button on the machine, the other on the other end touching the button on […]
Coca Cola is Dance Floor Theory Gold
A few months back, the marketing world got excited over Coke’s new campaign: The Coca Cola Friendly Twist. Watch the video, it’s kind of awesome I saw this, and as a marketing fanatic, I shared it on my Facebook wall, tagging our very own Tom because it reminded me so much of what he talks […]
Community at Swift Kick HQ – We Share Stories
One thing that sticks out while working at Swift Kick is that we are all friends, working together. We aren’t just coworkers. This is the kind of thing you want to create within your on-campus organization: friends, doing cool things together. One of the simplest and most effective ways we foster a community within our […]
DFT Tip #17: The Never Ending Party
This week we posted this DFT Tip, artwork by Lia Rothschild, on our Facebook page. The idea is, you shouldn’t have to be in the room with a group you lead for them to have positive experiences. Another way to think about this tip is the old adage Give a man a fish and you […]
Welcoming Nathalia to the Team – Our Wandering Kick-Butt Intern
THE Nathalia is a social sciences and humanities graduate of Corning Community College, moving onto Communications and PR at Brooklyn College. She was first involved with leadership as a student senator and then was the PR director for Student Association for a year. She is one of the amazing interns currently at Swift Kick. She is also a great member of our #SLChat community. Some epic fun […]
In Depth with New Intern Jeremy Chen
Here in the office, we are super excited to have Jeremy spend a month with us through an NYU program matching incoming college freshmen to internships. It’s been fun having him join us on the company retreat and every day, as he joins in on the shenanigans in the office. Jeremy was born in Taipei, […]
Swift Kick Company Retreat – An Inside Look at the Epicness
The 3 S’s of Community
Community building is key within any organization or team. The best teams feel like something each member wants to be loyal to. They should be committed to making the group as a whole succeed, not just themselves. Three very important parts of creating a community are shout-outs, strengths, and support. Shout-outs: Make people feel great about […]
Swift Kick Never Puts Baby in a Corner – Megan’s Intern Reflection
I just had my last meeting with Tom to close out my internship with Swift Kick :(. You know, I am not new to this internship thing. Before my time with Swift Kick, I had been an intern with a few different companies so I was no stranger to the general list of intern duties: […]
Student Leader Spotlight: Mark Patrick Clements, Corning CC ’15
School and Year: Corning Community College, ’15 Major: Human Services Leadership position: Student Trustee How do you define leadership? Broken down to the basics, leadership is service. Every single person at Corning Community College has something unique, something singular to offer to the world, but many of them don’t know it because they have not been given […]