Surround yourself with a great team. A community is a mosaic of people, and together you can create amazing things. Building and leading a community creates enormous satisfaction but can be time-consuming.
- Distribute the workload – Additional co-organizers allow you to delegate organizing responsibilities.
- Encourage collaboration – Having more team members empowers them to learn leadership skills and builds trust in your community.
- Reward members – Assigning leadership roles is a great way to let a member know you love their passion and ideas.
Communicate the responsibilities you’d like for them to handle. Before selecting someone, ask yourself:
- Do they represent your group’s values? Find members that start conversations.
- Do they contribute lots of ideas for events? Great leaders share actionable ideas and suggestions.
How to Build a Leadership Team?
- Identifying active members – people that are sharing from their experience, eager to help others.
- Make the community involved – in decision making, choosing speakers, topics, etc.
- Create opportunities for members to be active – present projects, help sessions, share knowledge.
- Ask people to volunteer for specific tasks – help with meetup operations, admit members online, monitor the chat, reply to questions, etc.
- Just ask the community.
How to Choose the Right Team Members?
- Define the qualities that you are looking for in a community leader – a good place to start is our Code of Conduct
- You have the things you rock on! But, what are you missing? Which abilities or knowledge can another leader contribute?
- Set expectations & be clear about them – What do you expect them to do?
What Type of Roles are there?
Would you like to have an official co-organizer or an assistant organizer? We recommend having both types of assistance.
Leadership team roles in meetup.com
- Co-organizers – Can manage group settings, events & members. A meetup group can have up to 2 co-organizers, which have to be a part of Elementor’s Leaders Program. To add a co-organizer and apply to the program click here.
- Assistant Organizer – Can set and edit events, contact members & accept members.
- Event Organizer – Can set and edit events and contact members.
See more about roles on meetup.com
Want to learn more? Check out this recording and slide deck from our #2 Leaders’ meetup: Growing your Leadership Team.