How might we...
- How might we as an organizing team practice collective leadership around base building?
- How might we build a high-quality list of Minnesotans to get to our purpose AND activate that list?
- How might we improve our engagement with our members/base to build power?
- How might we use visual tracking systems to help us practice collective leadership?
Hypothesis
Tracking base-building goals in a clear and consistent way will help the organizing team prioritize leadership development as a core metric, and build group accountability.
Design
Creating some internal team systems to better track and encourage base building.
- Deciding what leadership roles TAMN will be recruiting for as part of their election program.
- Create ‘Leadership asks’ activist codes in VAN.
- Creating a dashboard or spreadsheet that makes individual organizer metrics visible to all
- Training the team on this system.
- Regularly referring back to these goals in team meetings and individual 1:1 conversations
- Created a Slack community for volunteer leaders for ongoing communication.
Metrics
We didn’t define these in advance, whoops! Still learned a lot, see below.
Learnings
- Dashboard was responding to organizers desired need and was delivered in a week later, this built team morale. Introduction changed team dynamic
- Expanding experiment leadership to include Britton started the distributed leadership in the team that Sabrina is looking to build.
- Dashboard is up in every action and demonstrates progressive progress, will use for continued primary debrief. .
- Clear visualization of data does increase responsibility of organizers, individually and collectively to work and data documentation.
- People were willing to join slack, 96, and wanted election results and debrief. Timing of high energy was good for engagement. People want insider views and perspectives