What’s a community? – Part Two

A community is conversations

A community is shared news and opinions

Since the advent of the online world, it’s no longer just geographical

A community is interactions. This struck a chord with me and reminded me of the time I spent with David Zinger and friends this summer.

High quality connections – choose to make contact, to say hello. David spoke about Jane Dutton, whose research focuses on how organizational conditions strengthen capabilities of individuals and firms.  In particular, she examines how high quality connections, positive meaning and emotions contribute to individual and organizational strengths. David said that his observations of how many (or how few) folks acknowledge and engage with a front desk in an organisation, tells him a lot about their high quality connections, and how it is around here. My friend Sukh Pabial wrote something about this which I consider to be recommended reading – you may want to take a look.

A community is about shared purpose. ConnectingHR gets a mention.

Author: Doug Shaw

Artist and Consultant. Embracing uncertainty, sketching myself into existence. Helping people do things differently, through an artistic lens.

2 thoughts on “What’s a community? – Part Two”

  1. Appreciate the name check there Doug, thanking 🙂

    And liking the live blogging. Although My impression was it’s a continuation on the same blog post as opposed to separate blog posts. Still enjoying the updates as they’re coming through. Good show.

    1. I think it’s my short attention span and the need to listen. I’m struggling with this mode of operation. Bzzzzt!

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