Leading without being in charge

Selena Deckelmannselenamarie@gmail.com

User Group Liaison, PostgreSQL

You’ve got an idea for a user group.

A community that meets regularly in person, to share and learn.

And drink a pint or two.

You’re looking for people to join.

How?

You want them to:come to meetings

You want them to:participate

You want them to:take over for you

someday

from flickr: karla_nazareth

from flickr: rmeneses

what is leadership?

You’re not a dictator.

Facilitator

Moderator

Guide

Leading without being in charge

5-step program to:lead welldevelop new leadershave enthusiastic followers

1. Get people to the meeting

2. Start the meeting

3. Make people feel good

4. Set the tone

5. Take questions

#1 - Get people to the meeting

Who?

from flickr: demibrooke

Perl Mongers

Ruby Brigade

Linux Users Group

Functional Programmers

Agile Developers

Pythoneers

PDXPHP

Lunch 2.0

BarCamp

.NET Developers

Cisco Users

Java Developers

Free Advertising

email

blog

talk to people

Ask someone else to blog

Ask other UG leaders to email

Speak at another UG

More free advertising

Non-free advertising

#2 - Start the meeting

Share the agenda

Make announcements

Make introductions

from flickr: gemengdbedrijf

Why did you come today?What do you want to learn?

What’s your favorite ... ?

Introduce the speaker

Rituals

from flickr: magisterludi

What can I expect at your group?

AnnouncementsIntroductions

Feature of the monthA Talk

Socializing

Set a regular date and time

#3 - Make people feel good

from flickr: red5standingby

Write names down

Make stuff together

Eat and drink together

Make yourself feel good

Why are you going this?

Have a goal

Measure your goal

Make adjustments

#4 - Set the tone

Be an active leader

Ask for help

Take the load off yourself.

Give real work

Let them fail

That guy

Sitting in the front row

Interrupting

Disrupting the flow

Deal with trolls before they happen

Have an agenda“Save questions for last”

Help the speaker out

Praise in public, criticize in private

Structure for socializing

Make time for you to socialize

Have a drink

#5 - Take questions

Ask people what they think

Write it down

Change things, or not :)

the 5 steps:

1. Get people to the meeting

2. Start the meeting

3. Make people feel good

4. Set the tone

5. Take questions

Thank you!