Hi Trevor, Thanks for your insights! I have been wanting to start a mastermind group at my coworking space; Connects Workspace in Golden, Co but am a little stuck as to the best way to go about it. Can you add a little more detail? -Once you start a group is it closed? or do you allow new members to join existing groups? How often do you meet? How many are in a group? How much do you monitor the group or do you let them self lead?
Any insights would be greatly appreciated! Jen On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 9:20:42 AM UTC-7, Trevor Twining wrote: > > We have a few things that we do in this regard: > > 1) It is accepted custom that when someone is stuck, they can just > announce their impediment to the room. Those who are able to hear can > decide if they are able to offer assistance/advice. > > 2) We run regular mastermind groups out of the space (it’s also been > another way to introduce people to our community and start them down the > path to adoption). These are great places for building strong > accountability structures between groups. > > 3) Our regular BizTricks meetups encourage people to share things that are > working for them in their personal practice. > > 4) Many of us have accountability partners within the space. > > 5) We have an end-of-week celebration where we vent, cheer, feast and > drink (alcohol and non-alcohol). We call it Fuck-it Friday, and it’s the > highlight of many people’s weeks. > > There’s also many other moments throughout the day where this sort of > teamwork is modelled. We’re home of Niagara’s independent workforce; we > decided to look out for each other because nobody else was going to do it > for us. That mindset needs to run through everything we do in order for > people to believe it. I think we do a pretty good job of it, but it > requires constant effort to maintain. > > So my advice? If you really want to build this type of togetherness or > team culture, then you just start doing it. Find ways to be together. And > let everyone contribute to what it looks like. Do it consistently. Over > time, it will transform your space and the people in it. > > -------------------------------------------- > Trevor Twining > Cowork Niagara > http://coworkniagara.com > Home of Niagara’s independent workforce > twitter: @coworkniagara, @trevortwining > cel: 416-201-2254 > > > > > On Mar 7, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Tony Bacigalupo <tonybac...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > This is something I've been looking at for a long time. > > It seems coworking spaces tend to start off with a lot of momentum, with > members really engaged and excited, but then over time culture erodes into > a state where people tend to just walk in, put on their headphones, and go > to work. > > Getting members to participate becomes an increasingly challenging slog. > > One solution, as has been discussed here in the past, is to develop a > culture of empowerment and encouragement, whereby all community members > feel like the space is theirs to build together. Alex writes well about it > here > <http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2014/04/community-management-tummling-a-tale-of-two-mindsets/> > . > > To build on that, I have been experimenting with adding a layer of > intention to the average workday, harkening back to Brad Neuberg's original > vision. > > Part of what members look for in coworking is a sense of structure and > accountability, two critical things that you have in a typical office but > don't get when you work for yourself from home. Coworking spaces satisfy > these needs, but only implicitly and partially. > > When I've worked with spaces to provide that more explicitly, through some > simple group goal-setting and accountability programs, the results have > been spectacular. For people who don't actually work for the same company > to act more like a team, they need a shared context in which they can feel > like they're helping each other succeed and grow. > > I discovered that people sometimes just need clear boundaries and a safe > space to open up about what they're doing. Once they have a chance to build > genuine connections and a sense of shared mission within that framework, > good things start happening fast. > > Happy to discuss more about this topic if you'd like! > > Tony > *---* > *Projects: New Work Cities <http://nwc.co/consulting> • Open Coworking > <http://opencoworking.org/>* > *eBook: No More Sink Full of Mugs <http://nwc.co/mugs>* > *Connect: Personal site <http://tonybacigalupo.com/> • Twitter > <http://twitter.com/tonybgoode> • Facebook > <http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo>* > *New: Preorder the Ultimate Coworking Toolkit > <http://nwc.co/consulting/toolkit>* > > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Elizabeth Trice <lizt...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I'm interested in building higher level engagement of members, and have >> been thinking about more team-building, orientation training, and other >> systems to help individuals work more like a team. 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