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Barrie's Coworking Community Perfect for small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs. 12 Dunlop St E, Barrie Ontario, L4M 1A3 Memberships start at $25/mth www.thecreativespace.ca 705-812-0689 On Sep 10, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Adam Teterus <a...@indyhall.org> wrote: > Turns out Slack multi-team options just got a lot better, too. A new beta > build is out right now that let's you swap between teams much faster, and > with full notifications for all teams in one window. Download it here if you > want to join in for the Coworking Leadership Slack that Melissa started! > > On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 1:05:41 PM UTC-4, Melissa Geissinger wrote: > It's actually really easy to swap between teams I've found. It's even easy on > the mobile app! Send me your email and we can experiment. > > And hell yes to Google Hangouts. Let's do it! Pick a time. > > > Melissa Geissinger > President & COO | WIMP LLC > WIMPspace: Cowork * Colearn * Coexist > p 707 827 1334 x1 > c 707 888 0225 > > > On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 10:01:10 AM UTC-7, Adam Teterus wrote: > Hey, Melissa! Congrats on opening the clubhouse! it's especially refreshing > to read that you've been so cohesive for such a long time prior to moving > into a space. That's really fantastic, and I'm thrilled for you. > > I'm absolutely sure that we could talk and learn lots from one another, and > I'd love to do that. We use Slack here at Indy Hall, in fact. My > understanding of Slack is that it's a little difficult to swap between teams > right now (Indy Hall log-in v. Coworking Group log-in), though I may be > building that up into something more difficult than it really is. I'll hop > inside and we can pick-up from here. > > I was also thinking that it'd be phenomenal to have a Google Hangout at the > end of every week, some forum for connecting with other tummlers and managers > and leaders in real time. Realistically, we have an astounding amount of > potential tools and platforms, we just have to execute and meet up! > > On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:17:34 PM UTC-4, Melissa Geissinger wrote: > Hi Adam and everyone! > > We just opened up our coworking space last week, so I'm wearing all the hats > for now. Honestly, I can't imagine it any other way for the time being. I > love getting to know every single person in the community and making sure I > do my best to serve them and meet their needs and expectations. Even though > we just opened our space, we've had a throwing and thriving community for > nearly 3 and a half years already. > > I run the group with 3 other individuals, and we've been using a chat service > called Slack for a few months now. We used to have our regular conversations > in Facebook but that just got messy and disorganized. Now we just opened up a > "team" for the greater group and it's been awesome. Other companies around us > are even starting to adopt the platform for inter-company communication. What > if we created a Slack team for Coworking Space management - we can create > different channels (basically chat rooms) for all kinds of topics and that > can be where we go when we need real-time answers or real-time like-minded > company to keep. What do you think? > > It's an invite-only service and it's free. Check it out at > https://slack.com/. I can start up a team if you guys are interested? > > Melissa Geissinger > President & COO | WIMP LLC > WIMPspace: Cowork * Colearn * Coexist > p 707 827 1334 x1 > c 707 888 0225 > > > > On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:46:12 AM UTC-7, Adam Teterus wrote: > Thanks, Will! > > how to engender that sense of commitment and passion to go above and beyond > the formal job requirements and to want to be involved in the Google Group > (as an example of going above and beyond the strict job definition more > generally), given that the external motivators (income potential, career > development) are not overwhelming? > > This. Exactly this. I think you hit the nail on the head, and to your point, > there very much is a critical practice of learning to make your employees > care as much as you do. Makes total sense, too, because that's precisely what > we ought to be doing for our members: making them care for this community as > strongly as possible, as though they themselves own it. In many ways, your > members do own it. In just as many ways, the space manager does own it - I > own it, and I do my best job possible when I feel that way. I just don't have > my name on any legal documents. :) > > I have to ask, and this goes to every coworking space owner: if you have a > hired gun running the place or helping you run the place, do you explicitly > invite that person to participate on the Google Group? What do you offer your > hire in terms of training or job help? > > On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 5:57:16 AM UTC-4, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace > wrote: > Adam, > > Great post and great question! > > As a space owner and space manager, I could certainly learn as much or more > from space managers as from space owners. And I would hope that the space > managers would find a happy home in this Google Group, sharing their own > knowledge and requesting help/insight from others. We'd all certainly gain a > lot, just as we'd gain a lot if there were more coworking space members on > this list. Which I suppose begs the question, "Where are all the coworking > space members?" > > I guess one answer--the less interesting answer--is that most space owners > are or once were space managers. Margins are low for most coworking spaces > and many of us run one-person or few-person operations. So we managers are > here, but we may use the "owner" tag since that sort of trumps the "manager" > tag on our business cards :). > > But of course most coworking spaces also have non-owner employees &/or > managers, so why aren't they more active on this list? Here's a potential > answer, and in this case it's the same answer as why there aren't more > coworking-space members on this list. It's also an answer I'm a little > ashamed to give, because it speaks to how far my own coworking space needs to > grow as a *community* and not just as a business providing shared office > space and events: most non-owner space-managers, as with most members, are > not passionately involved in the world of coworking and in learning about and > contributing to that world. > > The material incentives/external motivation (large potential salaries, career > advancement up a high ladder) are not there except in the very rare cases of > some of the most successful coworking spaces that can really attract people > ready to do their very best at the job for the financial benefits, and the > internal motivations that have to do with love of the job, commitment to the > community and doing one's best are just rare, I think, for often part-time, > low-paid work. I would guess non-profit coworking spaces and for-profit > coworking spaces that do an incredible job developing a strong sense of > commitment to the space and its community can find space managers ready to > give the job their all without the external motivators (the money or career > trajectory), but I think that's a rare achievement. I think once that's > achieved, those are the places also where you find space *members* and not > just managers getting involved, posting answers and questions to this list, > trying to build the movement more generally. > > So the challenge for me, who runs a for-profit coworking space--but does it > in large part because he's passionate about the importance of coworking > spaces as a kind of human/social capital for freelancers & independent > workers--is how to engender that sense of commitment and passion to go above > and beyond the formal job requirements and to want to be involved in the > Google Group (as an example of going above and beyond the strict job > definition more generally), given that the external motivators (income > potential, career development) are not overwhelming? > > I'd guess this is a challenge for many of us (space owners) and the main > reason you don't see more non-owner space managers actively involved here. > > Will > > ---- > Will Bennis > http://en.locusworkspace.cz > > On Sunday, September 7, 2014 3:47:49 AM UTC+2, Adam Teterus wrote: > Hey, all. I'm Adam. > > So I've been running Indy Hall as the Point Man for just shy of 3 years, > looking over this place and these people on a daily basis from January of > 2011 to right now (and well beyond right now, I should hope). 3 years of > facilitating relationships between new and old members, introducing newcomers > to our community, saying goodbye to longstanding members who came before me, > bumping into very human obstacles and guiding members through sometimes tough > social situations, always toward a place in which we're much tighter and > stronger and better than where we came from. > > I recently had a really great conversation with a friend about what it is > that I do here at Indy Hall. Given that coworking is relatively "new" in the > scheme of things, and given that it's a burgeoning meta-community and > industry in its own rite, she asked me who I turn to when I have questions, > when I encounter something new. > > That's a long, winding answer. My reference points are ALL OVER the place, > there's not really anyone one, particular role model. Not really a coworking > space manager that I look to for parallels or direct reference. Many of you > on this forum are among reference points, but there's a contingent missing > from the Google Group: the person that most closely reflects me and what I do > here at Indy Hall. I know that person and those people exist, but...where are > they? > > My friend, she's a researcher type, and she points out that I've got this > wealth of domain knowledge, this set of skills and attributes that I > reflexively understand and act on every day to keep this community up and > running. Things that I often take for granted, admittedly. Things I rarely > think about because I'm not talking about them out loud with other people who > do it, too. > > She goes on to say that it sounds like I'm lacking a field, a network of > people who share the same domain knowledge. A group of people like me. Where > are those people? > > I know the Google Group is primarily for/frequented by owners and prospective > space owners, but where do the space managers go to talk to one another? The > daily, boots on the ground, hired to be here community leader - where does > she go for answers? Where do they go to learn and talk and share? Hell, where > do they go to debrief and unwind after a long week of weird social > situations? Who teaches them how to do what they're doing? > > Further, for owners and prospective owners: when you're hiring for a > coworking space manager, who are you looking toward and thinking, "yeah, I > need that person"? When you do hire someone, who do you refer that person to > in terms of a role model for the gig? > > Where are the people like me? Who are they? 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