Look for hand raisers!
Find those who are regularly participating or raising hands. Because they are the passionate ones who are going to help you keep your community aligned with the purpose.
These hand raisers can be your next group of leaders of your community. If you empower or encourage them, they will be the one who will help you in building and improving the community.
These set of questions can be used to survey the team members:
- Can you tell us a bit about yourself (your experience, struggles, challenges)
- How did you hear about this community?
- Why did you want to be part of it?
- What community activities do you participate in?
- What do you get out of participation?
- What do you enjoy most? Why?
- What is frustrating? Why?
- Are you interested in participating more in the community? What would you like to do?
When you know who all are the engaged people in your community, you could reach out and encourage them to step up and help you in building community.
This step is a small take-away from Community Building Course