Yearly Archives: 2022

There are moments in all our days, weeks, year, life, that we experience a ‘random act of kindness’, someone does something that makes you feel seen, understood, and cared for. It can be as small as a person noticing you are in a rush and letting you go in front of them at a supermarket, or even a moment when a stranger says something unusually kind, such as ‘I just want to say, you look so amazing’. I said that to a woman walking through a car park last week, it made me feel great saying it, and I hope…

Here I am sharing the tenth article in this series about ‘Community Led Growth’. It is an exciting journey for me, I am loving the discipline and also the thoughts that come through while I am attempting to inspire more people to lead great communities. Thank you for the comments and the messages I receive. I can tell I will need to assemble quite a team around me to help people that are coming forward to implement community, it takes many talented people to create community and change in this way. In this article, I am writing about the ‘3…

Now that you have (possibly) read my 8 articles within this Newsletter Series on the subject of ‘Community Led Growth, you may already get a sense that community is a powerful force for wellbeing. The subject of wellbeing is on the tip of everyone’s tongues, and we all have our own language and motivations around this. There are so many aspects to our human state and the balance we seek in our wellbeing. I shared last time that, in this article, I will share more about why I believe that ‘community is a mental wellbeing’ strategy within a company, and…

In last week’s blog, I teased the fact that in this article I would talk about ‘Social Capital’ and how it has impacted my journey in business, this will lead me to share why the subject of ‘Community Led Business’ is linked to the growth in your individual and company social capital. Please remember that I am not academic, and I am not a big internet surfer, nor reader of other’s wisdom, reading is not a strength of mine. I never learned to study, apart from the study of people. My learning comes from the joy of observing others ,…

Today I want to share the leadership style that is critical for a thriving community. To begin, I do need to share a journey I have been on. When I was 23, I found myself in a demanding leadership role, I had joined the IT Industry aged 19 in 1983 and felt like a fish out of water. I didn’t want to be in business, I wanted to be a Physiotherapist and work with children with cerebral palsy. Failing to achieve this due to my academic results, I then applied to do Psychology and in my ‘gap year’, I joined…

I am thrilled to bring my 5th article to you and appreciate the comments and messages I am receiving; I learn a great deal from opening these discussions up. I also hope that this Newsletter might encourage more ‘leaders’ to share their thoughts on this LinkedIn feature. Before I start my thoughts on this week’s title, I want to gain some of your trust. I hope to do that by sharing some of my business experience as a ‘futurist’. Without any bragging rights, I can firmly state that I have always sensed change in human needs in business. Ecademy was…

My 4th Newsletter. Thank you for continuing this journey with me. I run these as a 'sequential story', sharing the sentiment, joy, beliefs and my wisdom from experience on why I believe 'all companies will thrive when they create community'. Last week in my Newsletter, I stated "I will share how I have witnessed my beliefs around ’Community Led Growth’, having seen the joy and the growth within Community, and why it really is the most beautiful asset to build in your business". I first have to reiterate that ‘building a community’ is very different to ‘building a network’. There…

I am getting into my stride now, this is my 3rd Newsletter within the LinkedIn Newsletter service. I now have 3,892 subscribers, and I am very grateful I am now assuming that anyone that is subscribing is curious about why I believe that every business will have ‘community’ as part of their customer delivery, our belief in ‘Community Led Growth - #CLG as Thomas has advised me to start using. Last week I shared what the 3 people and their insights did to create the foundation of what we believed the Internet could bring to humanity in 1998. (shared here…

Within my previous Newsletter post, the first one I wrote, I shared that I believe that every business will have 'community' embedded into their business model. I know that if you are a ‘leader, of a company', of a ‘team’, of a ‘thought’, then you are already a community leader in waiting, you just have not looked at it with this filter on. I cannot possibly persuade you of this in one post, in fact it would probably take a good chat about your business to convince you, however, in this post, I am sharing some history to my personal…

The new feature of Newsletters within LinkedIn intrigues me so I am committing to writing one post a week, which will go to those who continue to want to hear my thoughts on being a business owner and the fact that 'community' means the world to me. I believe that every business will have 'community' embedded into their business model, you might find this hard to believe,  but 20 years ago people struggled to believe it was possible to create friendships online and run a multi-million pound business from home. You may have heard about community, but do you truly…