How to build or revitalize your professional community?
Starting on April 22nd, 2024!
6-week, FREE online course in English for aspiring community builders from community builders, sharing their tools, strategies and best practices!
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in the Community Building Masterclass on how to build or revitalize your professional community!
This is our 6-week, FREE, self-paced, online course in English, accompanied by 4 Zoom online session where you can ask anything.
We start on April 22nd, 2024!
During this course, we will share our experience from building our Beelong community and networking and other professional communities.
We will only cover what has worked (or not) for our community and what we have observed in other communities. It will be very personal.
Building communities is long, laborious but exciting and very satisfying journey.
It will be our pleasure to be your guides!
Zuzana Gergeľová
Beelong Community
and Networking CoFounder and Facilitator,
Community Building Consultant
Zuzana Reľovská
Beelong Community
and Networking Founding Member, Wellbeing
and Burnout Prevention Consultant
You will learn:
- What are the benefits of professional communities and how to build them
- How to attract, nurture, and engage your community members
- How to organize community events, content, and rituals
- Bonus: Real stories from our community, timelines, tools, cheat sheets and tips for further reading.
This course is for you:
- if you want to build your community
- if you are already running or volunteering in any formal or informal community (e.g. business association, learning community, community of interest, woman circle, employee resource group, etc).
- if you want to understand more about how to create a sense of belonging, trust and emotional safety in any interaction with „your group of people“
We will explore:
Module 0
April 22nd, 2024
Introduction
- Welcoming
- 5 mantras (key principles) of community building
Module 1
April 22nd, 2024
Community Definition,
Types and Benefits
You will learn:
- What is a community exactly?
- Why do we need communities?
- What are the types of professional communities?
April 26th, 2024
from 15:00 to 16:00
Zoom session - online consultation with Zuzana G.
Module 2
April 29th, 2024
Community Purpose,
First Members and Identity
You will learn:
- What questions should you to ask before setting up of any community?
- How to attract first members?
- How to define the purpose, values and Identity of the community?
Module 3
May 6th, 2024
Community members
and engagement
You will learn:
- How to attract members to your community? How to onboard them
- How to make your members engaged?
- How to communicate properly (externally/internally) with potential and existing community members?
May 10th, 2024
from 15:00 to 16:00
Zoom session - online consultation with Zuzana G.
Module 4
May 13rd, 2024
Community Life: Events, Content and Rituals
You will learn:
- How to organise meaningful community events and rituals
- Power of the stories and engaging content
- 4 stages of community building
May 17th, 2024
from 15:00 to 16:00
Zoom session - online consultation with Zuzana G.
Module 5
May 20th, 2024
Leaders, Roles and Wellbeing within the Community
You will learn:
- Role and responsibilities of community leader
- Roles and ownership of community members
- How to prevent burnout and what to do to keep people from burning out
Module 6
May 27th, 2024
Action Plan
and Financing
You will learn:
- Minimum requirements to set up any community
- Step–by–step process of setting up or developing your community (roadmap)
- How to approach community rules, decision making and financing
Module 7
May 27th, 2024
Belonging, Trust and Emotional Safety
You will learn:
- How to create sense belonging using Community Building method
- 4 stages of building trust and emotional safety in communities
- 12 guidelines for creation the sense of belonging
Module 8
May 27th, 2024
Communities
and Belonging the Workplace (ERGs)
You will learn:
- What are the workplace communities and how they are different from other professional communities
- What are the benefits of ERGs
- What exactly is belonging and how it leads to higher engagement and retention at the workplace
May 31st, 2024
from 15:00 to 16:00
Zoom session - online consultation with
Zuzana G. and Zuzana R.
We start on April 22nd, 2024!
6-week, FREE online course in English
Community is an experience of authentic communication, unusual safety and extraordinary respect.
Community is a group of two or more people who, regardless of the diversity of their backgrounds, have been able to accept and transcend their differences, enabling them to communicate openly and effectively while having a sense of unusual safety and extraordinary respect with one another.