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Ep 29 - Dave Bayless - The 3 Foundations of a Successful Community: Purpose, People, Process

Ep 29 - Dave Bayless - The 3 Foundations of a Successful Community: Purpose, People, Process

 What makes a successful community & how can you help your community get there?  🤝

Today, we ask Dave Bayless, Co Founder at Human Scale Business, about his experience in community building. He shares with Sammy, what he thinks the most integral part of every community is.


They talk about:

1. Purpose, People, Process – The 3 foundations of a successful community 
2. What is 'Microsolidarity' & why is it so important for community-building
3. 3 crucial steps to start building your community and keep it going
4. Dave's definition of real communities
5. How to leverage online meeting tools to execute community events & connect your  community outside of events


About Dave:
Dave's career spans community building, innovation, and corporate and entrepreneurial advance. He's worked in distributed teams for 26 years, and holds degrees in economics from Montana State University and Northwestern University. Dave is an enthusiastic skier and mountain bike rider, and drinks too much coffee. He lives, works, and plays in Bozeman, Montana.

Find Dave on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdbayless/ 

Dave's recommendation: 
Business book: 
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters – Priya Parker https://amzn.to/3URwKMi 
Companies & Tools:
SuperHive, an email-based tool for unlocking meaningful, peer-to-peer connections within closed communities – https://superhive.is/ 
Mighty Networks – https://www.mightynetworks.com/ 
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About Human Scale Business:
Human Scale Business hosts collaborative learning communities including Faculty Resilience, Community Online, and (coming soon) Better BPM.

Website: https://humanscalebusiness.org/ 
Industry: Consulting
Company size: 2
Headquarters: Bozeman, United States
Founded: 2015
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About the host Sammy:
Sammy and SAWOO enable you to drive recruiting & employer branding via your hiring managers on LinkedIn. 

We can help you:
- Speed up hiring 
- Reduce hiring costs 
- Create an authentic Employer Brand
- Create a Talent Pool that you can tap into any time

Get in touch with Sammy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sammygebele/

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Past guests on the LEADERS IN CONSULTING show include: Dr. Stefan Sambol, Dr. Andreas Baader and Rainer Majcen, Friederich von Hurter, Peter Feldmeier, Alexander Kainer, and many more.  


About

The "LEADERS IN CONSULTING" Podcast is dedicated to helping Partners and Managing Directors of Consultancies grow their business faster. If you want to learn best practices from other Leaders in Consulting, this show is for you.

Each episode features an interview with a consultancy Partner, Managing Director or Thought Leader, discussing topics like:

  1. How to set up a winning strategy for your consultancy
  2. How to upsell and cross-sell more
  3. How to win big whale leads and convert those to clients
  4. Hiring and keeping valuable team members
  5. How to become a thought leader by building your personal brand

Hosted by

Sammy Gebele, CEO of SAWOO