Comments on: Is community management becoming the key management skill? http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/ By a community manager, for community managers Fri, 24 May 2013 14:05:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Adi Gaskell http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/#comment-26529 Adi Gaskell Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:16:21 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=584#comment-26529 There's a nice piece at HBR about the importance of collaboration in the new leaders toolkit.
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/02/is_command_and_co…

]]> By: Leadership Development Carnival, Part Five http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/#comment-20460 Leadership Development Carnival, Part Five Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:43:24 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=584#comment-20460 [...] Increasingly managers have to lead geographically dispersed teams using intrinsic rather than extrinsic movitation tools.  Is community management set to be the key management ability of the 21st century? Read more from Adi Gaskel in “Is community management becoming the key management skill?” [...]

]]> By: Enterprise 2.0 – the rise of the community in business | Adi Gaskell says... http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/#comment-18570 Enterprise 2.0 – the rise of the community in business | Adi Gaskell says... Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:17:58 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=584#comment-18570 [...] spoke a few weeks ago about the growing importance of community management skills in the general management toolkit.  This rise occurs because we are increasingly collaborating [...]

]]> By: Companies should be turning employees into evangelists | Adi Gaskell says... http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/#comment-18346 Companies should be turning employees into evangelists | Adi Gaskell says... Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:26:03 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=584#comment-18346 [...] I've written previously about how the skills so common amongst community managers will be so crucial to such efforts, and the connectivity that social media provides is something [...]

]]> By: Andrea http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/#comment-18335 Andrea Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:29:40 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=584#comment-18335 2nd that. Good video Leon, thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Leanne Chase http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/#comment-18304 Leanne Chase Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:57:14 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=584#comment-18304 Loved that video – thank you for sharing.

]]> By: mads winblad http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/#comment-18248 mads winblad Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:27:00 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=584#comment-18248 Hi, Community building and management is not only a imperative in modern leadership, it is also speeding up innovation and make the solutions much better. Community management is a integral part of open source leadership.

MW

]]> By: adigaskell http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/#comment-18208 adigaskell Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:20:42 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=584#comment-18208 Some more grist for the mill here.
http://professionalmanager.co.uk/thinkingabout/wh…

New research underlines the importance of giving employees a sense of belonging, ie forming a community.

]]> By: Leon Benjamin http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/#comment-18167 Leon Benjamin Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:52:18 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=584#comment-18167 Peter Drucker (RIP) said that "community building talent is the most precious resource in the modern world". I happen to believe him and I think community management as you say will be the key skill of the 21st century.

You'll be surprised how much change is happening in large organisations in terms of replacing email (which is broken) with social tools as the default way of communicating. This market is called 'social business' and it's exploding. Interestingly all the big software vendors (Microsoft, Jive, IBM, Cisco) all know they can't sell their products without the skills of community managers. They see 'adoption' (community building) as the single most important factor in selling their software. But they are all useless at it, often by their own admission.

I can't begin to tell you the insights I've had leading a pilot to explore the benefits of 'going social inside' at Virgin Media. But one thing's for sure community management is THE key skill to make this transition successful. Flexible Working is BIG.

Drucker also said; "New ways of working with people at arm's length will increasingly become the central managerial issue of employing organisations, and not just of businesses."

Hopefully some of you will get time to watch this 60 sec video on what we've been up to at Virgin Media on Flexible Working. It won't be up there for long!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAnPDLaW4hU

Enjoy.

Leon.

]]> By: adigaskell http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/11/11/is-community-management-becoming-the-key-management-skill/#comment-18163 adigaskell Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:47:36 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=584#comment-18163 Thanks for your comment Jerome (you'll have to imagine my excitement, as a cycling fan, when I got the email telling me that Jerome Pineau had left a comment – alas you're not the pro cyclist of that name :) )

You're quite right that flexible working is not a new thing, yet it does remain a minority activity in many offices. The traditional CM skills of making everyone feel welcome and valued probably answers that issue of remote workers being left out in the cold though.

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