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This week, our new Community Builder cohort discussed the system of capture. We gave the cohort people a way to calculate their 'existential overhead' and decide how and where to use their energy. What is the System of Capture? This may sound elaborate and wordy, so let me
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A lot of time, more than I care to admit, goes into thinking about what to do and what might happen and too much of what I think might happen never happens. Which means there is a lot of not happening — happening. Last week, I shared Rachel Aaron's
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Do good community leaders hang around with other good community leaders? Why is hanging around others who do the same thing you do necessary? When we talk about the London Coworking Assembly, we talk about community leaders. Everyone most active in the London Coworking Assembly is a community. They are
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The best thing you can ever do for your coworking space is start an email list as early as possible. But don't start an email newsletter because no one wants to sign up for your email newsletter. Something on your front page that says join our email newsletter
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What is your balance between 'doing' community and 'doing' work in your coworking space? For many, like myself, the primary reason for choosing a coworking space over working from home is a mental health necessity. I need to have a connection with human beings. But wherever
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How can you make more of an impact by working with people in your coworking community? Who do you work with? Where do they live? How can you engage with them? But what type of impact would be significant in your geographical area or the community you serve? Can you
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How do you help your coworking community members best? One of the most valuable things you can do for the people in your coworking space, Makerspace, Flexible Workspace, or Neighbourhood Workspace—however you are 'self-identifying' this week—is to connect with them. You must be genuinely curious about
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How do you practise the coworking value accessibility in your coworking space? Many people think you have to redesign your coworking space, and it costs millions of pounds. But Dom, from the Purple Goat Agency, who was on our London Coworking Assembly panel at the Workspace Design Show London panel
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So, what is the coworking value of collaboration? The easiest way to think about it is collaboration over competition. The other way to think about it is what we can do together that we cannot achieve alone. In a coworking environment, collaboration saves time, money, and energy. Do this by
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What do people outside our coworking community bubble understand by the word coworking? Most regular human beings need to learn what a coworking space means; as an industry, we have a lot of audience education to do. When I say coworking, I also mean shared workspace, neighbourhood space, community workspace
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How can you connect with people from your local community and invite them to your coworking space, shared workspace, or whatever you want to call it? (That's where you say neighbourhood space!) I visited the Urban MBA coworking space by Old Street in London this week. Ali Kakande
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Have you got a collaborative habit? That is a book by Twyla Tharp, who's a world-renowned choreographer. Twyla talks about all the projects she's worked on, including collaborations with Billy Joel, Jerome Robbins, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, David Byrne, Richard Avedon, Milos Forman, Norma