Sydney Jenkins’s Reviews > Elevating Engagement: Uncommon Strategies for Creating a Thriving Member Community > Status Update

Watching “how to start a movement“ TEDTalk by Derek Sivers in the meeting tomorrow.

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly you’re doing something“

Nudge volunteers to lead: I feel like I took this step with the PPC looking for spots to fill. The last time I needed help, I went directly to the people I thought of and asked them face-to-face this time I decided to reach out with the opportunity and let them volunteer themselves For these positions. I was very appreciative of the effort and initiative. They took upon themselves to serve our members.

Share solutions with your whole community: the benefits of collaboration don’t have to be limited to the participants; the fruits of their labor can help the larger community as well. We could even use all that we put together to make associates have a better experience towards the experience of new hires or relocators, or even our stuff as a whole to share ideas and opinions with each other

once we realize our ideas are being evaluated they become safer and simpler. We need to let the power of brainstorming take full effect to use the yes, and strategy and not the no, but to limit ourselves

Now that we’re into the collaborating section, it gets me thinking more and more about how useful a “speed dating“ environment could be for not only our team, but maybe even our staff as a whole. I hear it every day that longtime staff members are just now introducing themselves to each other because of an elevator ride. Imagine what knowing these people on a deeper level could do for each other.

Using members as contributors: using associates of past weeks, who have explored the area to weigh in on the need to know it sheets for the next seminars to come to add a layer of familiarity with people going through the same experiences.