Knowledge ecologist. Product research, community engagement, coop strategy, and partnership catalyst. On a mission to support healthy humans, teams, and networks in service to the common good.
*TLDR: When disaster strikes, vital information is lost in coordination gaps between national agencies, regional leaders, and local communities. To fix these dangerous mismatches,, we must make resources visible, communication clear, and power more balanced. Strategic network design holds the key.
As the world gets more complex and connected, calls to coordinate increase. But why? What does coordination allow us to do together that we cannot do alone?
For our event exploring how networks scale, we spoke with Jessie Huang, Jay Carmona, and our product strategist, Ana Jamborcic. We came away with three key principles to help a network grow: work out loud, uncover and celebrate invisible work, and create clear boundaries. Here are our takeaways.
We recently hosted an insightful conversation with three amazing network coordinators: Jia (Carol) Xu, Ph.D, Jay Carmona, and Lauren Hebert. We discussed relational resilience, the dreaded bottleneck position, and the party-like feeling you find in a healthy, engaged network. Here are our takeaways.
Are you making efforts to towards effective community engagement? Do you invite everyone, offer many roads for many interests? Do you count email subscribers, social media followers, or other metrics? Do you need to know what is most important to your community? If so, these thoughts are for you.
Collaborative communication matters in personal relationships, when communicating with groups of people and when working across groups. But what can we pay attention to that ensures communication is both effective and inviting?
The standard playbook for developing high-performing teams doesn't work, and teams that perform well in complex contexts already know this. They don’t obsess over how to be productive or efficient. Instead, they focus on something far more important: team health.
