Educating people on different ways of thinking about things like competition is a huge part of what makes coworking spaces important.
When I trained folks to work at the front desk, I prepared them to educate every person who walked in the door. - No, we don't charge extra for the printer or the coffee. - Yes, we trust you to ask if you're not sure. - No, we're not here to sell you on us. We can tell you why the other spaces are great too. - Yes, we're all in this together. We've found if we work together we all succeed. We knew that what we were doing was going to be a pretty radical shift for people to digest. Once we re-framed this education process as a part of our purpose, it became really quite fun. Tony *---* *New Work Cities <http://nwc.co/consulting> * *Next round of group coaching for space managers kicks off late January. Learn more here. <http://nwc.co/club>* [image: Inline image 8] <http://tonybacigalupo.com/>[image: http://twitter.com/tonybgoode] <http://twitter.com/tonybgoode>[image: http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo] <http://facebook.com/tonybacigalupo>[image: http://linkedin.com/in/tonybacigalupo] <http://linkedin.com/in/tonybacigalupo> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 7:36 AM Fiona Frank <fionafr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 'This principle is part of our initial tour discussion. We not only talk > about it, we celebrate it! Once it’s part of your ethos, your future > members will not be afraid of competitive companies, rather will be the > first one to shake take their hand and buy them a coffee.' > > I love that . I think I will get it on to our website ! We have always > thought about collaboration not completion. But need to get it out there > into the minds of this (relatively new) business (which has spent a lot of > money setting up their unit). > Thanks for the speedy reply !! > > -- > 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
