Hey Adam! Thank you for putting this out there. I'm the operations manager/ community foster-er/ coffee maker/problem solver/ non-owner at Link. I'm part of the Austin Office Managers group. The collective wisdom and experience in the group is amazing, but a coworking oriented group would be the bees knees. Please invite me to the Slack group and google hangout.
On Saturday, September 6, 2014 8:47:49 PM UTC-5, Adam Teterus wrote: > > Hey, all. I'm Adam. > > So I've been running Indy Hall as the Point Man for just shy of 3 years, > looking over this place and these people on a daily basis from January of > 2011 to right now (and well beyond right now, I should hope). 3 years of > facilitating relationships between new and old members, introducing > newcomers to our community, saying goodbye to longstanding members who came > before me, bumping into very *human* obstacles and guiding members > through sometimes tough social situations, always toward a place in which > we're much tighter and stronger and better than where we came from. > > I recently had a really great conversation with a friend about what it is > that I do here at Indy Hall. Given that coworking is relatively "new" in > the scheme of things, and given that it's a burgeoning meta-community and > industry in its own rite, she asked me who I turn to when I have questions, > when I encounter something new. > > That's a long, winding answer. My reference points are ALL OVER the place, > there's not really anyone one, particular role model. Not really a > coworking space manager that I look to for parallels or direct reference. > Many of you on this forum are among reference points, but there's a > contingent missing from the Google Group: the person that most closely > reflects me and what I do here at Indy Hall. I know that person and those > people exist, but...where are they? > > My friend, she's a researcher type, and she points out that I've got this > wealth of domain knowledge <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_knowledge>, > this set of skills and attributes that I reflexively understand and act on > every day to keep this community up and running. Things that I often take > for granted, admittedly. Things I rarely think about because I'm not > talking about them out loud with other people who do it, too. > > She goes on to say that it sounds like I'm lacking a field > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_(academia)>, a network of people > who share the same domain knowledge. A group of people like me. Where are > those people? > > I know the Google Group is primarily for/frequented by owners and > prospective space owners, but where do the space managers go to talk to one > another? The daily, boots on the ground, hired to be here community > leader - where does she go for answers? Where do they go to learn and talk > and share? Hell, where do they go to debrief and unwind after a long week > of weird social situations? Who teaches them how to do what they're doing? > > Further, for owners and prospective owners: when you're hiring for a > coworking space manager, who are you looking toward and thinking, "yeah, I > need *that* person"? When you do hire someone, who do you refer that > person to in terms of a role model for the gig? > > Where are the people like me? Who are they? I want to meet 'em. > -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
