Encouraging Team Engagement - How to run Team Meetings

Source: John Cooper

"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." --Vince Lombardi



Are you working with a team that isn't engaged as you want them to be ? Frustrated with the low level of engagement from your team members ? Do you feel that some people could contribute more.  Here are three ways you can increase the amount of engagement within your team meetings.

Community building tool - Engagement Pyramid

Source: Engagement Pyramid by Groundwire

Finding it tough figuring out how to recruit, maintain and develop engagement with your volunteers and community members ? The Engagement Pyramid is a wonderful framework that can help guide your community building efforts. 

The Engagement Pyramid Explained

Developed by Groundwire, the pyramid derives its ideas from community organization, relationship marketing as well as fundraising and combines them together into a very easy to understand model to help you focus your activities.

Why I became a NetSquared Volunteer Community Manager?

It all began with me deciding to attend one of Vancouver’s local NetSquared Meet-ups organized by Eli Vander Giessen. It was an amazingly informative workshop featuring Brady Josephson sharing his expertise on A Practical Guide to A/B Testing for Non-profits. As I wasn’t familiar with NetSquared I did some research and soon discovered that it is a network run by volunteers who are dedicated to helping create local opportunities for learning, sharing and using technology to make a difference. Before long I found myself helping Eli as a Co-organizer and community manager back in March 2013 and have continued to be involved to this day!

Here are the reasons why I’ve continued to be a volunteer with Eli and NetSquared.

Using the power of GIF's to highlight your community member

For Queenie Tu

When you work with a lot of volunteers, recognition is crucial for retention rates. Having been a part of a various leadership positions in volunteer based organizations, it can be tough sometimes to give your volunteers the recognition you feel they deserve. However, that doesn't have to be the case ! You can quickly create personalized digital GIF recognition for whomever you want.

I'll walk you through the steps I took to create this GIF inspired by and for my girlfriend and maybe you'll find it useful for the upcoming 2014 National Volunteer week on April 6-12.

NetSquared Spotlight - Interview about our approach to community management

Interested in what I do as a event organizer for NetSquared ? Here is the interview I did for NetSquared Spotlight:
http://www.netsquared.org/blog/netsquared-spotlight-stevie-vu