Last week was all about building a community. We listened to some interesting stories from people who were part of some strong networks and communities. One of my biggest takeaways from last week in terms of building communities would be the importance of having values. By values, I don't mean having a few fancy/fluffy words that are often written on company websites and just communicated to new employees during their orientation week. Values to me are guiding principles and something that can be shared universally. It's not really about the semantics but about the essence of values that's really important when building a community.
To build a community, it's important to come up with a small and simple set of values that can easily translate to actions/behaviour. I liked the values we came up with in the first week but felt like we needed to make them a little more concrete to turn them into actual guiding principles. Although we spent another working on the values on Friday, it was a good refresher and also a good way to start thinking about the Nova network and how to make the values come alive through our activities and events.
Now it's time to be mindful of these values and lead by example by not just integrating the values in the way we work but also the toolbox we design.
To build a community, it's important to come up with a small and simple set of values that can easily translate to actions/behaviour. I liked the values we came up with in the first week but felt like we needed to make them a little more concrete to turn them into actual guiding principles. Although we spent another working on the values on Friday, it was a good refresher and also a good way to start thinking about the Nova network and how to make the values come alive through our activities and events.
Now it's time to be mindful of these values and lead by example by not just integrating the values in the way we work but also the toolbox we design.
Such a simple, and yet challenging, mission. Creating values that influence behavior. You are right Rucha we don't build a community by telling them what to do or what to fell. We build a community my connecting our values with their values and spreading that as a group, through our behavior.
ReplyDeleteI like that we looked again into our values, and decided that they should evolve as our group dynamics matured and evolved!
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree with Rucha and Artur!
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