hi Tony The ability to provide for oneself is a natural "right' not a privilege I recently shifted my focus from management coworking space management to change managemenI with a view of creating 'industries' while the original focus was the creative sector, we've been approached by noncreatives, interested in self employment. Originally started focusing on "space", as a solution however soon realized that our core target group had immediate financial needs.
1. Ideas/product development skills 2. Business development skills 3. Work space 4. Living expenses They could not pay the low rates of existing coworking spaces many were on extremely fixed budgets. Jobs was not an option but a necessity, in fact many had challenges with food and serious housing issues. Friends and Family were not an option. When we recommended existing spaces to those who had income sources, 24 hour accessibility became an issue, as did space design and since we dealt with the creative sector, equipment. We did however develop a process that guided the "unemployable", to become not just income earners but to also hire others, The system is not 100% new this coworking collaborative independence model is one I saw my mother and others engage in. In recent months I've been working with "non-creatives'. I'm exploring a virtual model as a support system for existing local communities in the US and international. We've tested it with solid results and have committed to documenting a "how to guide' I have been looking at existing coworking spaces to recommend but 24 access and space design is still a challenge as is location. These solutions need to be within easy walking and travel distance to communities. The greatest challenge, the one aspect that pops up and separates those who look for a job and those who opt for the freelancing/coworking option is for lack of a better word a "need' to be validated, by being hired,or as some have pointed out, the willingness to take risk. Looing for programs/experts resources in that type of change management -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
