Thanks so much for sharing this alejandro! reminds and helps me to set up those basic house rules as well! Muchas gracias! Eric
Op dinsdag 26 maart 2019 16:05:21 UTC+1 schreef Alejandro Moreno: > > Since we hardly did any community-building before we opened our space, if > I could do it over again, I would address certain topics like kitchen > use/rules, some basic bathroom usage/rules/etiquette, ideas for improving > recycling/sustainability, member guest policy, open space noise policy > (like whether phone calls will be allowed in the main space or whether > people should use phone booths and meeting rooms for calls, as people talk > very loudly on cell phones and video chat calls), getting the members to > help you keep the bills down (turn off lights in rooms when not in use, > etc), and how many of your members would potentially want private offices > (build as many as you can). > > As far as specific recommendations I would make for some of the > aforementioned topics (some might be relevant to you, some might not be): > — NO seafood in the microwave, EVER > — Any food left in the fridge at 6pm each Friday is up for grabs for > anyone because it will get tossed that night. > — Rinse the sink after you've emptied food, coffee grounds etc into the > sink / disposal (basic common sense stuff that people are too unconscious > to think about sometimes) > — Have a sign you can hang on the dishwasher telling people that it's > running so DO NOT OPEN while running > — Tell members to go ahead and load toilet paper if it runs out and not > have to wait and go tell you that TP is out > — Ask them, if they'd be open to pitch in and clean a toilet once in a > while if it needs cleaning (cuz you're going to end up cleaning them daily > unless you hire a service) > — We set up 3 separate recycling stations in our space but we need to do a > better job about telling people to do small things like remove the plastic > lid and paper sleeve from their coffee cups and recycle those (better yet, > I think we're going to establish a new rule for our regular members – no > more plastic/paper cups from the local cafe, use your own washable coffee > mug instead) > — We set a 2 hour member guest policy, after that they need to buy a day > pass > — We have a ''quiet culture'' in the open space, we built 3 phone booths > and we let our members use the meeting rooms too for short calls if the > phone booths are full. > — We give each of our members 20 free hours of meeting room use per month, > so they can book meeting rooms either for a long phone call that they have > in their schedules or for meetings or whatever they need. You may or may > not be able to afford this so, do what works best for you. > — I'm constantly turning the lights off in the phone booths, meeting rooms > etc, we need to put signs up telling people to turn them off (even though > the rooms have automatic sensors, the lights stay on for a while after the > room or phone booth is vacated) so you might want to consider the same > thing. Some people when entering the office in the morning turn on the > entire panel of lights automatically without thinking whether that is > really necessary. It never is, so several times a week I'm turning off > about 50% of the lights someone mindlessly turned on when they let > themselves in early in the morning. > — We built 2 private offices originally, we're looking at converting our > largest (and most underutilized) meeting room into 5 small private offices > and another nook we have into 2 more meeting rooms, plus converting one > meeting room we have now over to a private office, giving us 8 private > offices and 4 meeting rooms total > > That's all I have off the top of my head. > > Alejandro Moreno S. <javascript:> > Cofounder/VP VenturePad <http://venturepad.works> > > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 8:11 AM <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> In addition to what the other experts here suggest, research what Mark >> Eaton of the Cochrane Corner did. I believe it was based on Angel's advice >> and it was clearly successful. I recently spoke with Mark and he is looking >> for a second location. Not bad for a semi-rural operator. >> >> >> On Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 2:46:33 AM UTC-7, [email protected] >> wrote: >>> >>> Hey Guys! >>> >>> Tomorrow is my first meet and greets for my coworking community. I am >>> building the community before acquiring the actual space. What are some >>> topics or processes I should cover tomorrow during the meet and greet? Any >>> advice for topics to be discussed? Ice breaker techniques? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Trey >>> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- 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]. 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