Learnings While Earning People: Community Building| Roundup Post
Learning is essential to our existence. Just like food nourishes our bodies, information and continued learning nourishes our minds.
Today, learning forms a necessary part in acquiring critical thinking skills and discovering new ways of relating to people from different cultures & different communities.
But sometimes learning comes in implicit form rather than coming explicitly.
So the catch is are we able to recognize those learnings?
Let’s say if you are building a community to gain credibility for the brand you are working. During this, you got to experience many new things on the way but have you figured out any learnings from this bundle.
Recently, in our community [Community Folks], Asha Chaudhary (Founder & Community Builder at Kids Book Cafe) also came up with something like this where she asked everyone about their Learning while building communities and said Being Non-Judgemental is her greatest learning till date.
On this, many members mostly community leaders have put down their learnings out of their Community Building experiences:
1.Mithun Shetty (Head of Community Building at 91Springboard) said he was a bad listener and wasn’t as good at it as a community manager should be when he started off, but gradually he becomes better at this skill after trying his best.
Learnings take time and trying is all we can do to get better on certain things.
2. Khushboo Chouhan (Community Lead at BabyChakra) said she learned patience, which is a skill we all should learn if we are planning to build flourishing communities or bringing people together to achieve a common goal.
3.Rishav Dokania (Business Head at Nodd) has shared his biggest learning with a very fine statement i.e. ‘Curation is the key with well-defined objectives’ as it really helps in achieving various goals throughout the journey of community building.
It would be better if we acquire curation as quick to never miss out on major things.
4. Himanshu Agarwal (Project Manager at Aptara) said ‘Love and Engagement are priceless. For everything else, there’s Mastercard!’ and here, I totally agreed to what he said.
This is something we all need to experience to understand the real benefit of running a community.
5. Ankita Tripathi (Technical Writer at Unbxd Inc.) said that she is too hard on feedback and she needs to learn how to receive feedback and then work hard enough on the same to become a better version of herself.
As feedback has always been a key to improvement and we all should ask for that every single time.
6. Smriti Anand (Community Program Manager at Truecaller) said that she learned not to take everything to heart and work on the feedback only.
And this is the thing we all need to keep in mind while delivering our best and at the same time keep working on other things to improve ourselves.
7. Adam Turnbull (Co-founder at UnicornFuel.io) said he learned about the KPI tree for metrics and avoiding vanity that makes him look good all the time.
This seems like a perfect way of learning things in smarter ways.
8. Avani Parekh (Program Manager for Community Partnerships, APAC at Facebook) said ‘What goes on behind the curtain shows up on stage’.
If we put hard work & dedication into something, it will never go waste. It will definitely show up someday.
9. Sonia Agarwal Konjeti (Community Leader at Community Leadership Circles from Facebook) said that before she was very emotional but now she is keeping a good balance by being practical as well.
Similarly, we have to keep learning many such things that will bring out our best version.
10. Paras Pundir(Founder at Community Folks) said ‘My learning is my belief in Karma’.
He believes when things are done with the right intention for others always bring back positivity and satisfaction beyond limits.
Because we all know, ‘What goes around comes around’.
11. Priya Sood (Head of Community at WOOP) said that she learned mainly about people's skills like both in a good and bad way.
Because the community is all about people and we all should master this skill.
12. Tamanna Dhamija (Co-Founder at Baby Destination) described how Uber focuses on user/member pain points. It’s like an obsession for them(uber) to solve customer problems and push everyone harder to provide better solutions.
She explains a great example here and the learning takeaway would be providing better solutions to our clients/customers every single time.
13. Akshay Aggarwal (CEO & Founder at Blocumen Studios) said that as the tribe leader he learned that one has to create as many leaders to create value at scale.
Yes, he is right here ‘Scaling is what we all should think of’.
So if we see the pattern here, we will get to identify that learning is also an art that everyone needs to practice. It's a never-ending process in which experience gives you learning and learning builds experiences for you.
Time has come, better start counting your learnings or you can also take some reference from the learnings mentioned above to build a great community.
Are we missing any important point here? It’s a community-driven blog, if you have any latest learning from your community-building experience, do add your thoughts in the comment section and it will be updated here.
