How to Cultivate and Energize Your Community with People & Company Founder Kevin Huynh

Host Travis King of the Community Builder Podcast talks with Kevin Huynh, about building the People & Company community, improving processes, the community life cycle, and a sneak peak at his book, Get Together.   Episode Highlights:  No matter who your organization serves, you can think about them as a community. Kevin is writing a book about how to cultivate community and is structuring it more like a cookbook than a business book. There are differences between building transactional and non-transactional communities. Even for non-transactional communities, money is still a critical resource so you can’t ignore it. Communities go through life stages, just like people. People often forget that you can’t apply the same framework to totally different communities. Kevin looks at community development as an initial spark, stoking the flame, and passing the torch. One of Kevin’s biggest interests is process improvement, with a focus on empathy. He acknowledges that for smaller startup communities, it is less about process improvement than it is consulting on process creation. This isn’t about finding weaknesses, it’s about recognizing that different organizational leaders have different skills and strengths and seeking to fill gaps. Learning a language can teach you a ton about community and culture. Kevin has kept the same Word document journal for the past 20 years. He had early experiences with community from going to various camps as a child, like an engineering camp and a Spanish immersion camp, that influenced his desire to be around people who weren’t in his bubble. Part of community is sharing energies in person.   3 Key Points: One requirement, regardless of community size or stage, is the infrastructure for community members to communicate with each other. As a community grows, there are tons of small lessons to be learned along the way. Community is about expanding your circle and personal bubble.   Tweetable Quotes: “If you build the resources flexible enough, people can remix it on their own and share it with others, and hopefully that organism as a whole can support each other, and I think that’s a more healthy, thriving community when that’s happening.” –Kevin Huynh   Resources Mentioned: http://www.kiwimonk.com (www.Kiwimonk.com)  Kevin Huynh: https://twitter.com/kevinhuynh (Twitter), https://www.instagram.com/kiwimonk/ (Instagram)  Travis King: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travisking1 (Linkedin) http://communitybuildershow.com (communitybuildershow.com) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.