Supercharge Your Organization Through Community with Jono Bacon
b'Jono Bacon is a leading community strategist, speaker, author, and podcaster. He founded his own consulting company and has served as Director of Community at multiple organizations. His clients include Huawei, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sony Mobile, Deutsche Bank, and others. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed The Art of Community, a columnist for Forbes and opensource.com, and founder of the Community Leadership Summit and Open Collaboration Conferences. He has also written a new book entitled People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams, which is being released November 12th.\\n\\nIf you like this episode, check out episode 19 with Pat Flynn here: https://lifeasleadership.com/019/\\n\\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\\n\\n- You can get incredible value by building relationships with your customers/followers.\\n- Always start with determining the value of your community for your user. Why would they care to be a part of your community instead of doing any other activity?\\n- Determine your key people you want to have join your community.\\n- Allow/enable your community to generate value through (a) forums, (b) feedback, (c) advocacy/marketing.\\n- The main purpose/benefit of groups is commitment and retention.\\n- When developing a community, make sure that your whole team/all your employees are involved in developing it (rather than having only one individual focused on it). \\n- As a leader, provide sufficient support and guidance when developing community.\\n- "Earn a browser tab" in your community members\' lives.\\n- Your users want to know two things about you: Do you know what success look like for me? Can you help me achieve that success?\\n\\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\\n\\n- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? "This too shall pass" - both the good and the bad. Keep them both in perspective.\\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \\u201cA leader is\\u2026\\u201d Involved (but not pushy), empathetic, and a listener.\\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? Have I earned my position today as a leader?\\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.\\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Read every day. Infuse yourself with new ideas.\\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d or \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d "Why not?" Don\'t always accept the current perceived wisdom. We can always do better.\\n\\nWebsite:\\nhttps://www.jonobacon.com/\\n\\nFind Jono Bacon on social media:\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/jonobacon (@jonobacon)\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonobacongram/?hl=en (@jonobacongram)\\n\\nMusic credits:DJ Quads | Cruise Around | Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/cruise-aroundDJ Quads | Smile | https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/smileDJ Quads | It Just Makes Me Happy | Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/it-just-makes-me-happy'