This is where things differ for us. Depending on our personality, we can go in several different directions.
Depending on the size of your project, you may want to start taking action on the individual steps to work towards completion.
For larger projects, which I believe that many of us are looking towards, you need to continue the planning stage. Fill in more details, where will you get the funding? Where will you get people to help jumpstart the project.
You also need to start creating the positions for this project. Who will change the trash bags? Who will handle the finances? Who will make contacts? Who will manage the people? Who will build the bridge itself? What certification are you requiring for people to build the bridge?
Many times, you will fill more than one roll to start out with, but articulate the different positions, so when the project and participation grows, there is a clean break from what you were doing to what your final position is going to be (whether as the leadership, or perhaps you simply want to build the bridge and want someone else to find the money and someone else to lead the project).
You want to get people with initiative for the top level positions. You need to be able to tell them "We need funding, I don't know how to do it. Please find us $200,000" and have them take it from there with minimal oversight aka prodding.
Sometimes, they may be new if it's more of a volunteer / extremely low paid position so you will have to do more hand holding. If it's your first time as well, take this time to learn as much as possible, but the learning part, to me, is one of the really fun parts!
Anyone have any tips on finding or matching people with positions? Or how to articulate the duties of each position?
-John
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