Starting Small – Building a close-knit community that encourages connection

Starting Small - Building a close-knit
community that encourages connection

Starting Small – Building a close-knit community that encourages connection

Community building can be challenging for anyone, but starting small helps build a foundation for connection and collaboration.

In partnership with Led by Community, join us for this upcoming talk on Tuesday, October 17th at 1 PM EST for Starting Small – Building a Close-knit Community that Encourages Connection. Discover the essential ingredients for launching a thriving small community: a shared passion, a committed core group, and a welcoming gathering place.

Learn how to define your community’s structure, leverage your capabilities, and cultivate trust and psychological safety. With over 20 years of experience in community building, Deb will share valuable insights to help you embark on your community-building journey confidently. Please note: Led By Community events are available only on desktops and cannot be joined from smartphones or tablets. We’re working to improve this service. Starting Small – Building a close-knit community that encourages connection

Starting Small - Building a close-knit community that encourages connection

The three things you need to start a small but mighty community:

- A desire to gather others around a topic, interest, or challenge.
- A group of 3-15 people willing to meet consistently for a period, which you can define based on your understanding of the group.
- A place to gather can be anything from a coffee shop to a Zoom call.
  Tips to identify your ideal community structure
  - Your bandwidth to lead, host, develop, market, promote, and grow.
  - Start with either a networking focus, a support focus, or a learning focus (but not all of them, and not at the same time)
  - Consider who could be able to support you in this adventure. Who’s someone with a passion for connection and would be interested in partnering with you to co-host events or develop some programming from their life experiences?
    Best practices for creating psychological safety
    - Earn your members’ trust by showing up authentically.
    - Define what the purpose of the group is and what you’ll be talking about.
    - Share vulnerability as a leader and it will inspire your members to see you, and in turn, they will feel that they can be their authentic selves since you’ve modeled this for them. Starting Small – Building a close-knit community that encourages connection

Take the guesswork out of content calendars

Get this E-book with step-by-step implement actions to help you set your content goals, align your content with your business and audience needs, and schedule an entire month’s worth (or more!) of content!

This ebook is designed to help business owners create a content calendar for social media, an online community, or a blog schedule.

Starting Small – Building a close-knit community that encourages connection

Starting Small - Building a close-knit community that encourages connection

Starting Small – Building a close-knit community that encourages connection

Community building can be challenging for anyone, but starting small helps build a foundation for connection and collaboration.

Starting Small - Building a close-knit community that encourages connection

The three things you need to start a small but mighty community:

A desire to gather others around a topic, interest, or challenge.

A group of 3-15 people willing to meet consistently for a period, which you can define based on your understanding of the group.

A place to gather can be anything from a coffee shop to a Zoom call.

Tips to identify your ideal community structure

Your bandwidth to lead, host, develop, market, promote, and grow.

Start with either a networking focus, a support focus, or a learning focus (but not all of them, and not at the same time)

Consider who could be able to support you in this adventure. Who’s someone with a passion for connection and would be interested in partnering with you to co-host events or develop some programming from their life experiences?

Best practices for creating psychological safety

Earn your members’ trust by showing up authentically.

Define what the purpose of the group is and what you’ll be talking about.

Share vulnerability as a leader and it will inspire your members to see you, and in turn, they will feel that they can be their authentic selves since you’ve modeled this for them. Starting Small – Building a close-knit community that encourages connection

Take the guesswork out of content calendars

Starting Small - Building a close-knit
community that encourages connection